Bhuvan

Multi Resolution
Thematic Data Dissemination on Bhuvan
Gateway to Indian Earth Observation

Societal Applications

Thematic Vectors
Bhuvan Cell
National Remote Sensing Centre
Hyderabad

http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
Gateway to Indian EO Data Products & Services

Project Specific
Multi theme and Multi User
Utilities
Visualisation Data Archive Thematic Services Geo-Processing

EO Data/ Products Exceeds 14 Terrabytes

19000 Unique users / month

~ 70000 EO image downloads since Sep 2011

Website of the Month Dec2010

 NRSC Open EO Data Thematic Services
OGC Web Services (WMS, WMTS)
Archive towards interoperability

Released on 29 Sep 2011 Released on 17 Dec 2011

Cartosat-1:DEM: 1 arc Sec LULC 1:50000 (2004-05)

Oceansat-2:OCM: NDVI, VF (2011):1Km LULC 1:250000 (7 cycles 2004-05 to

2010-11)
RS-1:AWiFS Ortho
(2008,2009,2010):56m Wasteland 1: 50000 (2008-09)

RS-1:LISS III Ortho (2008-09, 2011):24m Urban Landuse 1:10000 (2006-07)

Flood Hazard Layer (Assam : 1998-
2007)
Flood Annual Layer (Assam & Bihar :
1998-2010)
Data Downloads
CartoDEM 20912 Bhuvan Clip & Ship on 11 Apr 2012
AWiFS Ortho 7339 105 MOU signed and Data delivered
LISS III Ortho 47222 (world institute of sustainable energy, NIO,
NDFI, VF 579 Bangalore Univ, Pune Univ, National
Research centre for Agrofor etc )
Total 76052 (till 08 Oct12) 475 enquiries received
Thematic Datasets

Land use
The way in which, and the
purposes for which, human
beings employ the land
and its resources

Land cover
The physical state of the
land surface
Thematic Datasets

Urban Land Use Wasteland

Mapping of Thematic assets on a scale of Mapping the wasteland extent of the

1:10,000 for the city and environs country
Thematic Datasets

Flood Hazard Flood Annual Layers

Flood Hazard Zonation maps derived Mapping and monitoring flood

from 10 yrs of flood inundation layers
Thematic Data Dissemination
Using OGC Web services

Web Map Service

Provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map
images

Web Map Tile Service

Extension of WMS where rendering is in the form of tiles
Fetch the tiles asynchronously and completes the request to fill a single
view
 Software tools

PostgreSQL PHP (Hypertext

PostGIS Preprocessor)
GeoServer JavaScript
GeoWebCache Apache Webserver

Dissemination as OGC Web Services

Enabling Interoperability
System Implementation
PHP + JavaScript (Open Apache Server (web server)
Layers API ) viewer

WMS WMTS

Geo-WebCache
PostgreSQL
+ PostGIS
Geo Server
Results
The web-interface for this Thematic Datasets
Dissemination is available at

http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/theme
Accessing Thematic datasets as Web Services
Using these GetCapability URLs, users can access thematic layers and plot on any
compatible clients/Web browsers (QGIS,Gaia,OpenLayers, ArcGIS etc)

Tutorials are available at http://bhuvan-forum.nrsc.gov.in/guest/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33

Get Data
Allows the users to place request for digital database

GDAL library is used to facilitate the user to do the clip and ship through FTP configured
using Apache FTP
Statistics tool under Bhuvan Thematic services
Statistics tab helps the user to view the statistics of the selected geography for the
specific theme in both tabular and graphic form

Open source PHP charting library is used to create Pie-charts

Analysis tool under Bhuvan Thematic services
Users can define their Area of Interest (AOI), and analyze to get the output (statistics)

PostGIS functions ST_IsValid is used for checking the validity of AOI and ST_Intersects
is used to process the AOI
Query shell example in Bhuvan Thematic services
Create a simple query using AND, OR, NOT operators and get the spatial output

Request is processed at PostgreSQL/PostGIS and the resulting layer is dynamically

published using REST API of Geoserver
Metadata
Data about data

Based on National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)-2.0 metadata standard

Overlay of other Thematic Layers
The overlay layers include Administrative Boundaries, Transportation layers, Water
bodies, Rediff navigation map and other themes.
Opacity vary from 0.1 to 0.9 to understand the temporal changes
Add own WMS layer using Add Button
Conclusion
Thematic data dissemination through Bhuvan helps the users to visualize and
consume the thematic datasets as WMS and WMTS services which
leverages the data access across the web for further value addition.

It facilitates the researchers, planners, administrators etc to use these vital

information towards societal good

Currently at an average there are around 150 unique visitors/day to

Bhuvan-Thematic Services portal
Future Prospects

Extension to complex query based on multiple thematic layers

Query on the area of interest created through buffer on line, point or polygon

Querying facility for the Bhuvan mobile version having dashboard

Integration of more Thematic Datasets like Geomorphology, Land Degradation

Thank you
Questions?

For feedback and queries write to us at

bhuvan@nrsc.gov.in