摘要
The 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth was successfully convened at the University of California,Berkeley,USA on 59 June 2007.It is another successful conference since the launch of the first International Symposium on Digital Earth held in Beijing in 1999.Some 390 delegates from 28 countries representing different governments,academic agencies,industries,NGOs,and private organisations,attended.Participants focused on the conference theme‘Bringing Digital Earth Down to Earth,’through an impressive array of presentations and discussions that highlighted the active areas of applications using Google Earth,Microsoft’s Virtual Earth,NASA’s WorldWind,and many others.Examples of leading applications ranged from exposing human rights abuses in Darfur to mountain top removal for coal in the Appalachian Mountains.
