Digital Earth 2020: Towards the vision for the next decade

Max Craglia; Kees de Bie; Davina Jackson; Martino Pesaresi; Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp; Changlin Wang; Alessandro Annoni; Ling Bian; Fred Campbell; Manfred Ehlers; John van Genderen; Michael Goodchild; Huadong Guo; Anthony Lewis; Richard Simpson; Andrew Skidmore; Peter Woodgate

doi:10.1080/17538947.2011.638500

Digital Earth 2020: Towards the vision for the next decade

Max Craglia, Kees de Bie, Davina Jackson, Martino Pesaresi, Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp, Changlin Wang, Alessandro Annoni, Ling Bian, Fred Campbell, Manfred Ehlers, John van Genderen, Michael Goodchild, Huadong Guo, Anthony Lewis, Richard Simpson, Andrew Skidmore, Peter Woodgate

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This position paper is the outcome of a brainstorming workshop organised by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) in Beijing in March 2011. It argues that the vision of Digital Earth (DE) put forward by Vice-President Al Gore 13 years ago needs to be re-evaluated in the light of the many developments in the fields of information technology, data infrastructures and earth observation that have taken place since. The paper identifies the main policy, scientific and societal drivers for the development of DE and illustrates the multi-faceted nature of a new vision of DE grounding it with a few examples of potential applications. Because no single organisation can on its own develop all the aspects of DE, it is essential to develop a series of collaborations at the global level to turn the vision outlined in this paper into reality.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4-21
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Digital Earth
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2011.638500
State	Published - Jan 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Digital earth
Earth observation
Geobrowsers
Geoss
Spatial data infrastructures
Voluntary geographic information

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Science Applications
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)

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Craglia, M., de Bie, K., Jackson, D., Pesaresi, M., Remetey-Fülöpp, G., Wang, C., Annoni, A., Bian, L., Campbell, F., Ehlers, M., van Genderen, J., Goodchild, M., Guo, H., Lewis, A., Simpson, R., Skidmore, A., & Woodgate, P. (2012). Digital Earth 2020: Towards the vision for the next decade. International Journal of Digital Earth, 5(1), 4-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2011.638500

Craglia, M, de Bie, K, Jackson, D, Pesaresi, M, Remetey-Fülöpp, G, Wang, C, Annoni, A, Bian, L, Campbell, F, Ehlers, M, van Genderen, J, Goodchild, M, Guo, H, Lewis, A, Simpson, R, Skidmore, A & Woodgate, P 2012, 'Digital Earth 2020: Towards the vision for the next decade', International Journal of Digital Earth, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 4-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2011.638500

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