Perspectives

Remember CARTOSAT-2 launched early this year ? Well, it seems to be up, flying somewhere above us and even sending back images now. ISRO seems to have released images from this commercially usable satellite.
Image courtesy :ISRO

So, how do you like vidhana soudha and Chinnaswamy cricket stadium side by side? GISindia seems to think that the real exiciting thing is the cost factor. Apparently, these imagery can be twenty times cheaper to buy than the ones at say, Yahoo India maps, which is most likely from IKONOS.

Oh, talking of satellite imagery, did you know that Yahoo India maps has added new satellite imagery for a lot of places in India, very recently? For instance, check out the the lovely Golden temple, Amritsar or maybe the Ganga,Yamuna ( and arguably), saraswati confluence at Allahabad.

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