The Indian Space Research Organization will launch their own Satellite Imaging website later this year.
ISRO says that images from it’s own array of Remote Sensing satellites will power this website.
With regards to the quality and resolution of the images, well read this.
“We are going to launch our own satellite images on the web within six months from now. Our images are quite good and even better than Google,” ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair
Tall claims? May be not, because ISRO already sells high res satellite imagery to about 20 countries around the globe including to some in Europe, and also in the US through it commercial arm ANTRIX.
I am eagerly waiting to see another programme to rival goole earth, because the images in GE are very very old. I used to teach ‘Hajj Pligrims’, about the topography of Makkah and around using google earth. Now I hope, with ISRO I will be able to render my service in a better way