Evolution and implementation of the Digital Earth vision,technology and society

作     者：T.W.Foresman 

作者机构：International Center for Remote Sensing Education P.O.Box 18285BaltimoreMD 21227 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Digital Earth》 (国际数字地球学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2008年第1卷第1期

页      面：4-16,I0001页

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学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 

主　　题：digital earth 3D geobrowser GIS,remote sensing sustainability 

摘      要：Digital Earth’s framework can be traced to evolutionary threads with historic foundations that fostered the fertile conceptual and technological *** 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 *** 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 *** 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 *** of industrial,academic,and government organisations have advanced the technological components necessary for implementing the Digital Earth Vision at a prodigious *** leaders,such as Google,have accelerated the influence of large segments of society towards components of the Digital Earth ***,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 *** requirements for the model Digital Earth geobrowser remain to be fully *** 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.