ISRO's Geoportal Bhuvan, Now Removed the Login Process

Now you can access  Bhuvan without need of a login, which was a frustrated process. According as ISRO, "At the outset, we thank you for your keen interest in exploring ISRO's Geoportal - Bhuvan. During the initial launch period, due to heavy traffic, we understand that the site response was not congenial. Also, for the same reason, many users were facing login problems."In order to enhance the user experience and have a smooth entry to explore Bhuvan, we have now removed the login process. You can now access bhuvan without any need of login credentials. Just click the enter Bhuvan button on the home page www.bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in and you will be taken to the 3D globe page wherein you can explore all the Bhuvan functionalities.
Bhuvan is poised with a vision to be a one-stop versatile Indian Earth Observation visualization system evincing the Indian imaging capabilities. Team Bhuvan would also like to let you'll know that a new refurbished Bhuvan is on its way.

Team Bhuvan is also happy to inform you that Bhuvan visualization portal is now serving the global data from IRS P6(Resourcesat-1)-AWiFS data. View the IRS - AWiFS images of Australia, Madagascar, New Zealand & South Africa in Bhuvan.

 
Basic features of Bhuvan:
* Access, explore and visualise 2D and 3D image data along with rich thematic information on Soil, wasteland, water resources etc.
* Visualise multi-resolution, multi-sensor, multi-temporal image data
* Superpose administrative boundaries of choice on images as required
* Visualisation of AWS ( Automatic Weather Stations) data/information in a graphic view and use tabular weather data of user choice
* Fly to locations ( Flies from the current location directly to the selected location)
* Heads-Up Display ( HUD) navigation controls ( Tilt slider, north indicator, opacity, compass ring, zoom slider)
* Navigation using the 3D view Pop-up menu (Fly-in, Fly out, jump in, jump around, view point)
* 3D Fly through (3D view to fly to locations, objects in the terrain, and navigate freely using the mouse or keyboard)
* Drawing 2D objects (Text labels, polylines, polygons, rectangles, 2D arrows, circles, ellipse)
* Drawing 3D Objects (placing of expressive 3D models, 3D polygons, boxes)
* Snapshot creation (copies the 3D view to a floating window and allows to save to a external file)
* Measurement tools (Horizontal distance, aerial distance, vertical distance, measure area)
* Shadow Analysis (it sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain)
* Urban Design Tools (to build roads, junctions and traffic lights in an urban setting)
* Contour map ( Displays a colorized terrain map and contour lines)
* Draw tools (Creates simples markers, free hand lines, urban designs)

There would be many more value added functions and facilities which will be added into the package from time to time. Particular interest of ISRO/DOS would be to provide such functionalities to common man so that he/she adopts participatory approach with scientists to solve simple problems easily and interactively.
Requirements for Bhuvan in Windows: 
* Operating System: Windows XP/Vista
* CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz+ or AMD 2400xp+
* System Memory (RAM): 512MB
* Hard Disk: 2GB free space
* Network Speed: 256 Kbits/sec
* Graphics Card: 3D-capable with 32MB of VRAM
* Screen: 1024 * 768, "32-bit True Color"

Can I run Bhuvan on Mac OS and Linux?
No. At the moment Bhuvan can run only on windows system.

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