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 ...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.展开更多
Digital Earth’s framework can be traced to evolutionary threads with historic foundations that fostered the fertile conceptual and technological incubation.These threads incorporate writings,such as those of the visi...Digital Earth’s framework can be traced to evolutionary threads with historic foundations that fostered the fertile conceptual and technological incubation.These threads incorporate writings,such as those of the visionary engineering-genius,Buckminster Fuller,in conjunction with an array of space age develop-ments in computers,internet and communications,satellites,and education.In 1998,when Vice President Al Gore articulated the Digital Earth Vision,he portrayed the vision based upon myriad technology factors for the intellectual foundation and sparked a worldwide phenomenon that fortuitously included the Chinese leadership’s recognition and acceptance.The Beijing Declaration is recognised for its role promulgating the International Digital Earth Symposium series to promote better understanding of the impacts of Digital Earth technology and applications on behalf of all humankind.Combinations of industrial,academic,and government organisations have advanced the technological components necessary for implementing the Digital Earth Vision at a prodigious rate.Commercial leaders,such as Google,have accelerated the influence of large segments of society towards components of the Digital Earth Vision.However,challenges still remain regarding requisite collaboration on international stan-dards for metadata,interoperability,and data formats for space and time that will affect Digital Earth implementation scenarios.Functional requirements for the model Digital Earth geobrowser remain to be fully articulated.The current paper presents an overview of the historical components,the key players on the international scene,the catalytic technological advances,and the societal response to the growth of the Digital Earth community.展开更多
文摘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.
文摘Digital Earth’s framework can be traced to evolutionary threads with historic foundations that fostered the fertile conceptual and technological incubation.These threads incorporate writings,such as those of the visionary engineering-genius,Buckminster Fuller,in conjunction with an array of space age develop-ments in computers,internet and communications,satellites,and education.In 1998,when Vice President Al Gore articulated the Digital Earth Vision,he portrayed the vision based upon myriad technology factors for the intellectual foundation and sparked a worldwide phenomenon that fortuitously included the Chinese leadership’s recognition and acceptance.The Beijing Declaration is recognised for its role promulgating the International Digital Earth Symposium series to promote better understanding of the impacts of Digital Earth technology and applications on behalf of all humankind.Combinations of industrial,academic,and government organisations have advanced the technological components necessary for implementing the Digital Earth Vision at a prodigious rate.Commercial leaders,such as Google,have accelerated the influence of large segments of society towards components of the Digital Earth Vision.However,challenges still remain regarding requisite collaboration on international stan-dards for metadata,interoperability,and data formats for space and time that will affect Digital Earth implementation scenarios.Functional requirements for the model Digital Earth geobrowser remain to be fully articulated.The current paper presents an overview of the historical components,the key players on the international scene,the catalytic technological advances,and the societal response to the growth of the Digital Earth community.
