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The data products and services available in this Geoportal are listed here. All these datasets are in Geographic Coordinate System with WGS84 datum.

 

Bhuvan Raster Datasets
Sl.No Satellite/Sensor Resolution Availability Coverage
1 Oceansat-1 OCM

Oceansat-2 OCM
360 m

360 m
1999,2004,2006

2009
India
2 IRS P6 – Resourcesat1 - AWiFS 56 m 2006,2008,2009,2010 Global
3 IRS P6 – Resourcesat1 – LISS III 23.5 m 2006,2008 India
4 IRS P6 – Resourcesat1 – LISS IV MX 5.8 m 2006-08 India
5 IRS P4 – LISS III + PAN Merged 5.8 m 2005-06 India
6 Cartosat-2 1 m 2009 8 Foreign Cities (Vienna,   Perth,     Muscat, Cape Town, Athens, Algiers and Dubai)

 

Bhuvan Vector Datasets (under “Admin Layers” and “Land Services”)
Sl.No Theme Scale Survey Year Remarks/Source
1

Administrative Layers

  • Country Boundary
  • State Boundary
  • District Boundary
  • Taluk Boundary
  • Village Boundary (Assam, Chattisgarh, Gujrat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, Mathya Pradesh, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh)
  • Town Location 


1:1 million
 

 

Survey of India

 

 

Reproduced by permission of Surveyor General of India on behalf of Govt. of India

 

For Mega cities - Area level information from Open Street Map.

2

Infrastructure

  • Road (Golden Quadrilateral, National Highway)

 

1:250000

 

2005

 

Natural resources Database (NRDB)

3

Waterbodies (Major)

  • River
  • Reservoir
     

 

1:250000

 

 

2008

 

 

Captured using Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor – III (LISS III) and Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) datasets of Resourcesat - 1.
4

Watershed Boundary
(Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar,Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab,  Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal)

1:50000 2004 Watershed hierarchy polygons prepared for sub levels Under Natural Resources Information Systems (NRIS)
5
 

Soil Resources

  • Erosion
  • Texture
  • Productivity
  • Slope
1:250000 2004-05 NRDB/NRIS

Derived from National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSSLUP) Soil Map

Soil
(Karnatka, Mizoram, Andaman, Goa, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu)

1:50000 2004 NRDB/NRIS
6

Wasteland
(Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal)

1:50000 2003, 2005 Wasteland maps prepared under Wasteland Mapping Project.
7

Ground Water Prospects
(Assam, Jharkhand , Orissa)

1:50000 2004 & 05 Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water  Mission) (RGDWM) Phase III Data

Ground water prospects derived from hydrogeomorphological map elements
8

Land Use Land Cover (LULC)

1:250000 2008-09 Natural Resource Census – LULC 250K

 

Bhuvan Weather Services
Sl.No Theme Statistics Availability Remarks
1

Automatic Weather Station

  • Important Station Data
  • All Station data(Current & Archived data)
  • Nearest Station Data
  • Infra Red & Visible Cloud Video
~1000 Stations 2007 - till date Updated on hourly basis

 

Bhuvan Disaster Specific datasets under "Data Services"
Sl.No Theme Resolution Availability Remarks/Source
1

Drought

  • Normalized Differential Vegetation Indices Images
56 m 2002, 2008, 2009 (Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov) Derived  from AWiFS under National Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring System (NADAMS)
2

Flood

  • Kosi
  • Bihar
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Punjab
  • Assam
  • West Bengal

 

 

 

 

2008
2006, 2007
2009
2010
2011
2011

Derieved from RADARSAT.
3 Forest Fire Alert   Current Indian Forest Fire Response and Assessment System (INFFRAS)

Updated on daily basis
4 Heat Index   Current Derived based on Temperature and Humidity obtained from AWS stations

Updated every three hours
5 Volcono (ICELAND) 360 m &  72 m   360m raster data from Ocean Color Monitor (OCM) and 72m from LISS II of Oceansat-2
6 Japanese Tsunami
2.5 m & 1 m 2007 (pre) & 2011 (post) Cartosat 1 & 2 Imagery
7 Mexico Oil Spill
360 m 2010 Oceansat-2 (OCM)

 

Bhuvan Ocean Services
Sl.No Theme Resolution Availability Remarks/Source
1 Potential Fishing Zone (PFZ)
  • PFZ & Coast location
  • Chlorophyll and Sea Surface Temperature imagery
  • PFZ lines
1 km current Integrated in collaboration with Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS).

Updated thrice in a week.

 

Bhuvan Navigation Map
Sl.No Theme levels Availability Remarks/Source
1 Web Map Service (WMS) from Rediff 16 Frequent Updation Integrated in collaboration with Rediff.

In Mega cities, information upto avenue level.

 

Bhuvan - User Added Content
Sl.No Theme Categories Menu Link
Remarks
1 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) 24 (ATM, Bank, Beach, University etc) 'Add Content' under Collaboration Allows Bhuvanites to Geotag the points.

User registration is Mandatory.
2 Public Layers KML, shp, fly, WMS, WFS, Tiff, img, elevation layer 'Share' under 'Add Layer' of the left-side panel Allows users to share their layers with the public.

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