Bhuvan
Indian Geopotral
Bhuvan (lit: Earth) is an Indian web-based utility which allows users to explore a set of geographic content prepared by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The content which the utility serves is mostly restricted to within Indian boundaries and is offered in four regional languages. The content includes thematic maps related to disasters, agriculture, water resources, land cover, and processed satellite data generated by ISRO.
Bhuvan is known for its association with various sections of the Government of India to enable the use of geospatial technology. Since its inception, Bhuvan has enabled the Indian government to host public geospatial data as information layers for visualisation and public consumption. Examples of the types of geospatial layers include the Toll Information System for the National Highways Authority of India, the Islands information System for MHA, cultural heritage sites for the Ministry of Culture, etc. The information for the platform is obtained from government sources or through crowdsourcing.
Overview
ISRO launched the beta version of its web-based GIS tool, Bhuvan, on August 12, 2009. Bhuvan offers detailed imagery of Indian locations compared to other Virtual Globe Software, with spatial resolutions ranging up to 1 metre. At present 177 cities high-resolution datasets are available, while the rest of the country is covered by 2.5m resolution imagery. The images available do not include any military installations in India, due to security concerns.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2900724. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.
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