November 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
| Space-hungry India is planning to launch an improved version of Google Earth using its own satellite system, just weeks after conquering the moon. Its space agency hopes to unveil a prototype of Bhuvan - the Sanskrit for Earth - by December and launch the programme to the public by March.Officials claim the mapping system will generate clearer images and zoom into a distance of just 10m.The state-owned service, which will initially cover only India, will be free to use on the web. We’ve created a lot of value added products out of satellite data of the Indian region’Dr. V. Jayaramna, a director at Isra, told the Financial Times.We will introduce Bhuvan in phases. Over the next three to four months, the first lot [of map data] will come out and then more in a systematic manner.’ The move comes just weeks after India stepped up its position in the space race with the blast-off of the country’s first unmanned space mission to the moon. |
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