UIDAI and ISRO Launch New Bhuvan Aadhaar Portal to Help People Get Their Aadhaar Cards

UIDAI and ISRO’s centre the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) have launched the Bhuvan Aadhaar portal with three premium features

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in collaboration with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), a centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have launched the Bhuvan Aadhaar portal to help people get their Aadhaar cards by helping them locate centres around them. Bhuvan is an Indian web based utility which allows users to explore a set of map based content prepared by ISRO.

Bhuvan Aadhaar portal has the following three premium features:

• Geo-spatial display of Aadhaar centres.
• Route navigation to the nearest Aadhaar centre from the resident’s address.
• Proximity analysis providing the options of the nearest Aadhaar centre. 

About the ISRO Bhuvan Portal

Bhuvan is a Geoportal platform that hosts a wide range of services spanning visualization of satellite data, thematic maps, query and analysis, free data downloads and products, near real-time disaster services, apps for crowdsourcing, and diverse geospatial applications. It also supports the ministries with e-Governance applications. Bhuvan offers detailed imagery of Indian locations compared to other Virtual Globe Software, with spatial resolutions ranging up to 1 metre.

Bhuvan has since its inception in 2009 enabled Indian government to host public geospatial data as Information layers for visualisation and public consumption. Examples of the types of geospatial layers include toll information system for the National Highways Authority of India, islands information system for the Ministry of Home Affairs, and cultural heritage sites for Ministry of Culture among others. The information for the platform is obtained from the government of India sources or through Crowdsourcing.