Bhuvan Workshop
The User Workshop on Bhuvan is a unique opportunity for participants to familiarize themselves with entire functionalities and utilities of Bhuvan, the online Geoportal launched in 2009. It has since then, it has diversified into versatile viewing platform with capabilities such as providing 2D/2.5D and 3D photo-realistic textured models with a unique viewing/animation experience; full-fledged interactive thematic services and free data downloads from NRSC Open Earth Observation Data Archive (NOEDA). More than 20,000 unique visitors logon to Bhuvan every month so far about 2,98,000 free products are downloaded by users across the globe.
The workshop aims to increase awareness on Bhuvan, share services and collaborative applications, initiate government and other organizations to collaborate with Bhuvan and attract Public/Academicians to participate in crowd sourcing. The workshop is planned for novices as well as experienced users. The Workshop comprises of an overview of all the functionalities on Bhuvan like visualization, data download, thematic services , satellite and map base sharing from Bhuvan for user application development, crowd sourcing, API and will also showcase applications carried out for ministries and state government departments and disaster support services on Bhuvan, etc.
Speakers
Rajkumar Shrivastava
IFS, Dept of Forest. Govt. Of Karnataka
M Arul Raj
Manager, Bhuvan Web Services Development, National Remote Sensing Centre