Next-generation Digital Earth

被引:195
作者
Goodchild, Michael F. [1 ]
Guo, Huadong [2 ]
Annoni, Alessandro [3 ]
Bian, Ling [4 ]
de Bie, Kees [5 ]
Campbell, Frederick [6 ]
Craglia, Max [3 ]
Ehlers, Manfred [7 ]
van Genderen, John [5 ]
Jackson, Davina [8 ]
Lewis, Anthony J. [9 ]
Pesaresi, Martino [3 ]
Remetey-Fueloepp, Gabor [10 ]
Simpson, Richard [11 ]
Skidmore, Andrew [6 ]
Wang, Changlin [2 ]
Woodgate, Peter [12 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Geog, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Earth Observat & Digital Earth, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China
[3] Commiss European Communities, Joint Res Ctr, I-21027 Ispra, Italy
[4] SUNY Buffalo, Dept Geog, Buffalo, NY 14261 USA
[5] Univ Twente, Fac Geoinformat Sci & Earth Observat, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands
[6] Fred Campbell Consulting, Ottawa, ON K2H 5G8, Canada
[7] Univ Osnabruck, Inst Geoinformat & Remote Sensing, D-49076 Osnabruck, Germany
[8] D City Network, Newtown, Tas 2042, Australia
[9] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Geog & Anthropol, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[10] Hungarian Assoc Geoinformat, H-1122 Budapest, Hungary
[11] Nextspace, Auckland 1542, New Zealand
[12] Cooperat Res Ctr Spatial Informat, Carlton, Vic 3053, Australia
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
scientific communication; visualization;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.1202383109
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
A speech of then-Vice President Al Gore in 1998 created a vision for a Digital Earth, and played a role in stimulating the development of a first generation of virtual globes, typified by Google Earth, that achieved many but not all the elements of this vision. The technical achievements of Google Earth, and the functionality of this first generation of virtual globes, are reviewed against the Gore vision. Meanwhile, developments in technology continue, the era of "big data" has arrived, the general public is more and more engaged with technology through citizen science and crowd-sourcing, and advances have been made in our scientific understanding of the Earth system. However, although Google Earth stimulated progress in communicating the results of science, there continue to be substantial barriers in the public's access to science. All these factors prompt a reexamination of the initial vision of Digital Earth, and a discussion of the major elements that should be part of a next generation.
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页码:11088 / 11094
页数:7
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