Hyderabad Street maps

Now you can search for big landmarks of Hyderabad using Google Maps. Cyberabad Times has implemented this,

http://www.cyberabadtimes.net/maps/

Click on ‘Cyber Gateway’ to see my office from satellite.

- Hardik

ISRO launches PSLV-C7 successfully

ISRO launches PSLV-C7 successfully

Today the 44.5 meter tall 295 tone PSLV-C7 lifted off from the Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh launch pad at 9.24 am.

The PSLV-C7 is carrying the 680 kg Indian remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2 which is a next satellite of CARTOSAT series. CARTOSAT-1 was launched on 5th May 2005.

CARTOSAT-1 was having ground resolution of <2.5 meter while CARTOSAT-2 has <1.0 meter. Another feature of the CARTOSAT-1 was to generate Digital Elevation Models (DEM) through which one can calculate height information of a given point on earth.

Find details about CARTOSAT-1 and CARTOSAT-2 at,

http://isro.org/Cartosat/Page3.htm
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/rs/techrs023.htm
http://www.skyrocket.de/space/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/cartosat-2.htm

- Hardik

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