Digital Earth is an information expression of the real Earth,and is a new way of understanding the Earth in the twenty-first century.This paper introduces a Digital Earth Prototype System(DEPS)developed at the Chinese...Digital Earth is an information expression of the real Earth,and is a new way of understanding the Earth in the twenty-first century.This paper introduces a Digital Earth Prototype System(DEPS)developed at the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)and supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Discussions are made to the theoretical model and technical framework of the Digital Earth,and its related key technologies on spatial information processing,spatial data warehouse technology,virtual reality technology,high-performance and parallel computing.The DEPS consists of seven sub-systems including the spatial data,metadata,model database,Grid geoscience computing,spatial information database,maps service and virtual reality.Meanwhile,we developed a series of application systems such as the environment monitoring for the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing,natural disasters evaluation,digital city,digital archeology,Asia regional aerosol and climate change.The DEPS/CAS displayed the application ability and potential of the Digital Earth in three levels:the global,national and regional.展开更多
Digital Ocean is a new research domain of Digital Earth.Because of the spatiotemporal,three-dimensional(3D)and intrinsically dynamic nature of ocean data,it is more difficult to make a breakthrough in this domain.The ...Digital Ocean is a new research domain of Digital Earth.Because of the spatiotemporal,three-dimensional(3D)and intrinsically dynamic nature of ocean data,it is more difficult to make a breakthrough in this domain.The construction of the China Digital Ocean Prototype System(CDOPS)pushes Digital Ocean a step forward from its operation as a mere concept to its achievement as a realistic system.In this paper,the technical framework of the CDOPS is discussed,including its data,function,and application layers.Then,two key technologies are studied in detail that will enable the construction of the 3D ocean environment and the visualization of the ocean model output data.Practical demonstrations show that the CDOPS provides a technical reference for the development of Digital Ocean.This paper is based on an ongoing research project of the development of CDOPS that aims at the facilitation,integration,sharing,accessing,visualization,and use of the ocean data and model computing data from the Digital Earth perspective.展开更多
基金supported by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,NO.2009CB723906)the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(NO.KKCX1-YW-01).
文摘Digital Earth is an information expression of the real Earth,and is a new way of understanding the Earth in the twenty-first century.This paper introduces a Digital Earth Prototype System(DEPS)developed at the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)and supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Discussions are made to the theoretical model and technical framework of the Digital Earth,and its related key technologies on spatial information processing,spatial data warehouse technology,virtual reality technology,high-performance and parallel computing.The DEPS consists of seven sub-systems including the spatial data,metadata,model database,Grid geoscience computing,spatial information database,maps service and virtual reality.Meanwhile,we developed a series of application systems such as the environment monitoring for the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing,natural disasters evaluation,digital city,digital archeology,Asia regional aerosol and climate change.The DEPS/CAS displayed the application ability and potential of the Digital Earth in three levels:the global,national and regional.
基金The study is funded by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(No.2009AA12Z208,No.2009AA12Z225)the 908 Project of the State Oceanic Administration,China(No.908-03-03-02)。
文摘Digital Ocean is a new research domain of Digital Earth.Because of the spatiotemporal,three-dimensional(3D)and intrinsically dynamic nature of ocean data,it is more difficult to make a breakthrough in this domain.The construction of the China Digital Ocean Prototype System(CDOPS)pushes Digital Ocean a step forward from its operation as a mere concept to its achievement as a realistic system.In this paper,the technical framework of the CDOPS is discussed,including its data,function,and application layers.Then,two key technologies are studied in detail that will enable the construction of the 3D ocean environment and the visualization of the ocean model output data.Practical demonstrations show that the CDOPS provides a technical reference for the development of Digital Ocean.This paper is based on an ongoing research project of the development of CDOPS that aims at the facilitation,integration,sharing,accessing,visualization,and use of the ocean data and model computing data from the Digital Earth perspective.