Free Access to Editor's Choice Articles - International Journal of Digital Earth

 
The International Journal of Digital Earth was included in the Science Citation Index Expanded

 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR DIGITAL EARTH (ISDE)
 
The ISDE is a non-political, non-governmental and not-for-profit international organization, principally for promotion of academic exchange, science and technology innovation, education, and international collaboration. The purpose of the society is to promote international cooperation on the Digital Earth vision, and enable the Digital Earth technology to play key roles inter alia, in economic and social sustainable development, environmental protection, disaster mitigation, natural resources conservation and improvement of human being's living standard.
 THE 4TH DIGITAL EARTH SUMMIT

 

Registrations are now open for the 4th Digital Earth Summit, “Digital Earth and Technology” being held in Wellington New Zealand from 2 to 4 September 2012.

Wellington City Council and Land Information New Zealand have partnered to bring the 4th Digital Earth Summit to Wellington. The Summit will bring the best speakers from overseas and from New Zealand to exchange knowledge and explore technology advancement in this exciting area.

The Summit will focus on digital earth science and technology, including advanced earth observation systems, augmented reality and visualisation, high-performance computation and simulation, and spatial data infrastructures... <<More

 
 
 NEWS EXPRESS
 China Completes System to Monitor Earth's Crust (2012-03-02)
 UK digital drainage map launches (2012-03-01)
 S. Korea to start daily space weather alert services (2012-03-01)
 3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake (2012-02-09)
 Prof. Guo Huadong awarded with academician honour by Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011-12-09)
 Afghanistan embraces GIS for wildlife habitat management (2011-12-19)
 SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip (2011-12-14)
 7TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DIGITAL EARTH
     
  On August 23rd-25th, 2011, the 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth themed “The Knowledge Generation” was held in Perth, Australia, by joining the forces of ISDE (International Society for Digital Earth), the WALIS (Western Australian Land Information System) Forum and the WA NRM (Natural Resource Management) Office. Over 800 experts in the fields of Digital Earth, land information, and natural resources from around the world shared their latest findings to explain the Digital Earth concept, global change, natural resource management, and information technology in 22 streams, 16 keynote speeches and more than 100 research reports. << Read more  
 

 
 
 FREE ACCESS FOR IJDE PAPERS

 

click here to access the International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 1 Issue 1 2008
To celebrate the success of International Journal of Digital Earth's(IJDE) acceptance into the, Science Citation Index Expanded. We have made the following 8 editor's choice papers free* to view online:  
Digital Earth: decadal experiences and some thoughts, H. D. Guo; Z. Liu; L. W. Zhu  
Geo-spatial information and technologies in support of EU crisis management, Delilah H. A. Al-Khudhairy  
Enabling interoperability for Digital Earth: Earth Science coverage access services, S. Nativi; B. Domenico  
Arithmetic and Fourier transform for the PYXIS multi-resolution digital Earth model, A. Vince; X. Zheng  
The use cases of digital earth, M. F. Goodchild  
Digital Earth in support of global change research, C. Shupeng; J. van Genderen  
Distributed geospatial information processing: sharing distributed geospatial resources to support Digital Earth, Chaowei Yang; Wenwen Li; Jibo Xie; Bin Zhou  
The role of GIS in Digital Earth education, J. J. Kerski  
 
 BEIJING DECLARATION ON DIGITAL EARTH - 2009
   
   
 DYNAMICS OF DIGITAL EARTH
 
The Face Of The Earth: For a month now, we have been acquiring altitude models with the TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X satellite pair. Already, over 1000 products have come out of our operational processing chain... http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_Face_Of_The_Earth_999.html
NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Ninos Are Growing Stronger: A relatively new type of El Nino, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger,... http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_NOAA_Study_Finds_El_Ninos_Are_Growing_Stronger_999.html
Observing Australia From Space In 3D: An international consortium* led by the University of NSW plans to begin designing satellite 3D mapping from space that could help monitor disasters like floods and fires... http://www.asmmag.com/features/observing-australia-from-space-in-3d
Brisbane City Council Launches ‘Virtual Brisbane’: 3D City Model by AAM: AAM Pty Ltd is proud to have contributed to Brisbane City Council’s new visualisation and planning tool, Virtual Brisbane. This innovative and fully interactive computer-generated 3D model of Brisbane aims to enhance some of the business processes with Council... http://www.aamgroup.com/news.cfm?itemId=40093EB0-19B9-EFA7-D6B13C52794EE9DC