Contents

PART I KEYNOTE SPEECHES  
Building up Digital Earth Together, Sharing Global Data Resources Earch Other Yongxiang Lu
Building the "Digital Earth", Promoting China's and Global Sustainable Development Guanhua Xu
GeoConnections-Canada's Geographic Information on the Internet R. A. O'Neil
The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Initiative and Its Relationship to the Vision of a Digital Earth P. Holland, M. E. Reichardt, D. Nebert, S. Blake, D. Robertson
Implementing Digital Earth: A Research Agenda M. F. Goodchild
Digital Earth and Finland: In Situ and Remote Sensing Data for Environmental Applications M. Hallikainen, L. Honkavaara
Towards Peaceful Uses for Space Technologies: How to Follow up the Vienna Declaration of Unispace III? Shunji Murai
Transformation of Cartographic Image into a Digital Model E.E.Shiryaev
The Potential of Virtual Reality Imagery to the Digital Earth Concept J.L. van Genderen
Integrated Global Observing Strategy - Putting the Vision of Digital Earth into Actions by International Communities Changchui He
The Digital Earth: Spatial Data Infrastructures from Local to Global Concept M. Konecny

PART II VISION AND CONCEPTS OF DIGITAL EARTH  
Geographic Information Science and Digital Earth Shupeng Chen, Chenghu Zhou
Data Formats for Digital Earth Zitan Chen
Digital Agriculture-One of Application Domain of Digital Earth Jicheng Cheng, Shanzhen Yi
Scientific Engineering of Digital Earth Weihong Cui, Xiaojuan Li
NASA-Sponsored U.S. FGDC Remote Sensing Standards Liping Di, Barry Schelsiger, Ben Kobler
Next Generation Data and Information Systems for Earth Sciences Research Liping Di, Ken McDonald
Thinking in Framework of Digital Earth Integrated Interactive System Xiaoqiang Ding,Shenbin Chen
Geographic Exploration of Digital Earth J. E. Dobson
Application of Digital Earth and Sustainable Development of Mining Area P.J.Du, Y.H. Sheng, D.Z. Guo
"Digital Earth" and the Research on Complexity of Economic Systems Fukang Fang, Ying Fan
Digital Earth: The Informationized Earth in the Knowledge Economy Yun Feng, Xinyu Huang
Building up an Earth Observing System for Digital Earth Huadong Guo
Digital Earth and Decreasing and Preventing Disaster and Sustainable Development Qisheng Guo, Yuquan Wang, Qing Xue, Ligong Yang, Jingye Wang
Prospects and Problems of GIS in India R. Gupta
Construction of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure under China's Digital Earth Development Strategy Xiangwen Jin
Earth Observing and Distributed Data Information System for Earth Systems Sciences M. Kafatos, Ruixin Yang, David Wong, X.Sean Wang
Development of Geo-Historical Data Handling GIS and Realization of Digital Earth Concept S. Kakumoto, M. Hatayama, H. Kameda
A Study on Security Policy in National Geospatial Databases Jihong Kim, Jangseong Kim, Heechae Jin, Sangmoo Lee
China's National Geographic Information Strategy: Lessons Learnt from First Generation Initiators Yunfeng Kong, Hui Lin
On the Application of Multi-scope Digital Earth Models in Virtual Earth Boheng Li
Geomatics and Digital Earth Deren Li, Qingquan Li
Research on Mathematical Model and Spatial-Temporal Geodesic Reference of "Digital Earth" Jing Li, ChunPing Zhou, Lianwangyin
Study On Geographic Information Generalization Based On Digital Earth LianwangYin, Chunping Zhou, Jing Li, Changyao, Wang
Object-Relational Data Structure & Organization of Massive Geo-Spatial Data Chunbo Liu, Lixin Wu, Qi Li, Jinxing Hu, Keming Yang, Donghong Hu
Consideration on Configuring Digital Earth Basis Framework Zongjian Lin
Digital Space and Earth System with Composite Satellites System Ainai Ma, Fangyun Chen
DIAL Access to Distributed Digital Earth Remote Sensing Data K. McDonald, L. Di, R. Suresh
Digital Cities I: Integrating Data and Information Resources R. B. Miller, C. Small
A Process-Based Temporal Data Model for Digital Earth M. Y.C.Pang, Wenzhong Shi, Yongqi Chen
An Overview of NASA's Terra Spacecraft and Mission K. J Ranson, Y Kaufman, D Herring
Peer Review for the Digital Earth: A Journal of Earth System Science Education Martin Ruzek, Donald R. Johnson, Michael Kalb
Development of Digital Earth in China Xiaoxi Sun
Here Comes the Age of the Digital Earth and Digital Meteorology Xu Tang
Geothermics and Digital Earth Jiyang Wang, Shengbiao Hu, Lijuan He
Cadastral Management in the Context of Digital Earth Shuliang Wang
Study of the National Spatial Information Infrastructure (NSII) Standards Feng Xu, Haochuan Li, Jianbang He, Lan Zeng
A Technique Prototype of NSII in China: the National Spatial Information Network System Feng Xu, Haochuan Li, Shouyong Yan, Lan Zeng
Some Progresses of National Spatial Information Infrastructure in China Shouyong Yan
Development of the National Spatial Information Infrastructure (NSII) In China Lan Zeng, Yonglin Yao
The Digital Earth and Meteorological Satellite Program of China Wenjian Zhang, Xu Tang


PART III THEORIES AND TECHNOLOGIES

 
Study on the Interconnection and Interoperability of Information Systems for the Digitized Battlefield Guozhu Cao, Houde Quan, Hongmin Yu
Research on Methods of Dynamically Monitoting Flooding by Space Technology Liping Chang, Xiaowen Fei, Liqun Bo, Xuexia Zhang
Research on Geospatial Information Web Sharing Language - GeoML Aijun Chen, Qi Li
A Digital Atmosphere by Numerical Weather Prediction Model Dehui Chen, Xu Tang
Choice of Space and Time Windows for the Comparison of Altimeter-Derived Sea Surface Wind Speeds with in Situ Measurements Ge Chen, Hui Lin
Speed up the Construction of the Capital Spatial Data Infrastructure Greet the Digital Capital Zhuo Chen, li-bo Hong
TerraInfoã : An Electronic Atlas of the Globe R. C. Cicone, M. D. Metzler, D. S. Way
A Multiple Outlier Detection Algorithm for Instantaneous Ambiguity Resolution For Carrier Phase-Based GNSS Positioning Liwen Dai, Shaowei Han, Chris Rizos
System Configuration and Processing Method for Forward Looking SAR with Two Receiving Antennas Shengli Dai, W. Wiesbeck
Urban Expansion Research Based on Multi-temporal RS Information Anrong Dang, Qizhi Mao, Chuan Zuo
Precision and Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data for Quantitative Analysis of Vegetation Change in a Semiarid Region J. Elmore, J. F. Mustard, S. J. Manning, D. B. Lobell
Monitoring Extreme Rainfall Events in an Alpine Region using two C-band Radars and a Network of Gages M. Gabella, J. Joss, G. Perona
Radiative Properties of the Middle Atmosphere Hong Pong Gi
Virtual Geographical Environments: Concept, Design and Application Jianhua Gong, Hui Lin
Organizing and Managing of Distributed Geographical Information Jianya Gong
Numerical Modeling on a Hazardous Microburst-Producing Hailstorm Xueliang Guo,H. Niino, R. Kimura
AVHRR-Based Forest Probability Mapping And Reference Data Collection Method Tuomas H?me, Kaj Andersson, Yrj? Rauste, Seppo V??t?inen, Anssi Lohi
The Use of GIS to Identify Environmental Factors Associated with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Transmission Risk In Northeast Sinai,Egypt Ali N. Hassan, H. A. Kassem, S. I. El Hosary Adel Yehia B. M. El Sawaf
Color Spaces and Their Conversions for Digital Earth Mingyi He, Jiantao Xia, Li Chen, Zheng Wu
Study on Digital Mine and Related Key Technologies Jinxing Hu, Lixin Wu, Zuoru Yin, Anwen Qi, Keming Yang, Chunbo Liu
An IAES Model for Spatio-Temporal Process of Land Subdivision Jie Jiang, Jun Chen
Space-Based Information Network for Earth Observation Jingshan Jiang, Guoliang Bian
An Implementation Model of Open Distributed Object GIS for Multiple GIS Server based on CORBA Heui-chae Jin, Jin-Rak Son
DLR's SAR Activities Objectives and Results W. Keydel
Recovery of Vegetation Characteristics Using Neural Networks D. Kimes, J. G.Etchegorry
Geocovertm-Ortho and Geocovertm-Lc: Orthorectified Landsat Tm/Mss Data and Derived Land Cover for the World G. T. Koeln, J. D. Dykstra, D. J. Cunningham
Visual Aids for Path Guiding Angela M.K. Kwong, Y.C. Lee, Lilian S.C. Pun
The Problems of Representation Bin Li
GeoStar-A China Made GIS Software for Digital Earth Deren Li, Jianya Gong, Qing Zhu, Xinyan Zhu
A Personalized Active Services and Decision-Making System-Multiagent-Based Data Mining Approach Hui Li, Zhuoqun Xu, Ning Zhang
Visualization with Level of Detail at Multi-Scale in 3D GIS Jun Li, Ning Jing, Maoyin Sun
Non-Diffusive Lateral Transport on the Moon: The Importance of High Velocity Ejecta Lin Li, J. F. Mustard
The Research and Development of Land-use Planning Management Information System Manchun Li, Yousheng Yu, Qian Yu
Intelligent Agent System on WEB GIS Qi Li, Jinchuan Cui, Weibao Chang
Data Warehouse of Spatial Information Qi Li, Chaowei Yang
Digital Harbor's Multi-Dimension Modeling and Presentation Yifan Li, Depeng Zhao
A Method of Registration Between Images Based on Split-Window Auto-Correlation Technique Zhen Li, Xiangtao Fan
Scale: A Fundamental Dimension in Spatial Representation Zhilin Li
Proposing the Forest Engineering of "Digital Earth" Zhixi Li, Hongxu Li, Hongga Li
Fractal and Its Application in Description of Spatial Information Shizu Lian, Yibing Cui
Development and Application of Digital Mini-area Shaofu Lin, Qi Li
An Operational State Land Use/Cover Monitoring System in China Base on Remote Sensing and GIS Technology Jiyuan Liu, Dafang Zhuang, Mingliang Liu
Data Models For Interoperability Qilun Liu, L.Z. Zhou, Jun Chen
The PRF Selection for Space-Borne SAR Zhan Liu, Z.S. Wang
Geographical Spatio-Temporal Hierarchical System and Digital Earth Xuejun Lu, Shupeng Chen, Huiguo Li
A Study on the Model of Agent-Based Distributed GIS Yingwei Luo, Xiaolin Wang, Shengri Cong, Ning Zhang, Muhua Li, Zhuoqun Xu, Zhonghui Lu
Automatic Registration of Sea WIFS and AVHRR Imagery Zhihusa Mao, Delu Pan, Haiqing Huagn
Extraction of Crop Information from RADARSAT-1 Imagery H. McNair , R.J. Brown, J. Ellis, D. Wood
GIS-Based Modeling of Karst Geosystems Dimitrina Mikhova , Peter Stefanov
Atmospheric Correction and Inverse Modeling of AVIRIS Data to Obtain Water Constituent Abundances John F. Mustard, Mathew L. Staid, William Fripp
A Process-based Temporal Data Model for Digital Earth Matthew Y. C. Pang, Wenzhong Shi
Some Calibration Problems in Spectroradiometric Sensors Y. N. Pyrkov, V. G. Plotnichenko. D. Y.Svet, A.G. Moskalev, A. V. Evtouchenko
A New Algorithm for Scan SAR Processing Rongrong QIAO, Zhensong Wang, Ian Cumming
Building the Spatial Decision Support Model Base Yanyou Qiao, Shouyong Yan, Sha Shen, Chunsheng Xiao, Xinyu Zhao
The Information Extraction from Radar Image Based on Fractal Dimension and Neural Networks Approach Qiming Qin, Rongjian Lu
Rice Parameter Retrieval and Yield Prediction Using Radarsat Data Florence Ribbes, Thuy Le Toan
Detection of Changes of Spatial Pattern in Criminal Activities--A Cusum Nearest-Neighbor Approach Rogerson, Yifei Sun
Image Compression with Visual Entropy-Based Segmentation Zhiguang Shan, Yang Yang, Wei Tao
A SSD Feature Extraction Method for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Guofan Shao, Degang Liu
Satellite Sensor Orientation Determination Juliang Shao, Shugen wang, Deren Li
The Digital Cross-Section and Its Significance Huosheng Shi, Jianhua Gong, Hui Lin
Digital Cities II: Monitoring the Urban Environment from Space Christopher Small, Roberta Balstad Miller
3D Data Modeling for 3D City Road Network Min Sun, Jun Chen
Development of the Cloud Detection and Rehabilitation Operational System Applied to NOAA SatelliteImage Jianguo Tan, Hongmei Zhou, Xian Lu, Chongjun Yang
The Structure and Gas-Sensing Characteristics of g -Fe2o3 Semiconductor Oxide Gabriela Telipan
WWW-Based Distributed Collaborative Spatial Decision-Making System Qing Wan, Chenghu Zhou, Diansheng Guo
Research and Application of the Multimedia GIS Jianhua Wang, Jingjun Guo
Principle of the Visual Operation and Its Application in GIS Jianhua Wang, Zhao Liu
Simple Explanation of the Digital Earth and Its Implementation of Spatio-Temporal Dimensions Xiaodong Wang, Weihong Cui
A New Type of Synthetic Aperture Radar Zhen-song Wang, Zhen-yu Tang, Ding Ding
Preliminary Study for Digital Landslike Wang Zhihua
Microwave Remote Sensing Technologies for Soil Moisture Measurement Ji Wu, A.K.Fung, Bo Sun, Suyun Zhu
GeoAgents Shaoyan Wu, Xiaobin Huang, Qi Li
The Prospects of the Tidal Energy Development in the Pacific Countries Weicheng Wu
Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty within the Framework of the Digital Earth Z. L. Wu, Y.T. Chen
Equivalence of LS and Green's Formulation for Two-dimensional Phase Unwrapping Maosheng Xiang, Jingping Guo
Lossless Data Compression Prototype/Study for EOSDIS Data Wei Xia-Serafino
Study of the Digital Earth and System Simulation Technology Qing Xue, Jingye Wang, Yuquan Wang, Qisheng Guo
Digital Hainan and Macro-Decision Support System Shanchang Yan, Shaofu Lin, Qi Li
A Multi-Technique Integrated Flood Monitoring System and Its Applocations in China Shouyong Yan, Chengjie Wei, Shixin Wang
Spatial Decision Support System and Its General Platform Shouyong Yan, Chunsheng Xiao, Yanyou Qiao
Web Publishing of Spatial Information Chaowei Yang, Qi Li
Digital Earth and Future War Xueqiang Yang, Yuquan Wang, Bingli Xu, Xin Chen, Jingye Wang
Digital Battlefield and Digital Earth Xueqiang Yang, Qing Xue, Xin Chen, Qisheng Guo
An Integrative Technique to Create a Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM) of the Earth J. Yates, B. C. Montgomery, P. D. Lowman
Measurement of Urban Sprawl in a Rapid Growing Region Using Entropy Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Xia Li
Synchronization Technology for Multimedia Communication in Digital Earth Xingye YU, Yang Yang, Zhiguang Sha
An Approach of Differential Geometry to Data Mining Xiangyue Tian, Chenghu Zhou
Research of the Management of Geospatial Metadata Li Zhang, Jianya Gong
The Methods of Topology Bulding and Parcel Updating in Land Information System Junsan Zhao, Yaolong Zhao
Research of Knowledge Discovery in GeoSpatial Database for Digital Ocean Lining Zhao, Depeng Zhao
The Studies on the Architecture of Web-GIS Peisheng Zhao, Chongjun Yang
The Model of Digital Prospecting System-Establishing a Subsystem of the Digital Earth Pengda Zhao, Jianping Chen
Enhancing V9i model for spatial relationships with Voronoi Distance Renliang Zhao, Jun Chen
Dynamic Spatial Indexing Model Based on Voronoi Xuesheng Zhao, Jun Chen, Renliang Zhao
Support of Pixel Location Technology of Remotely Sensed Image to Organically Integration and Conformity of Global Information Jinping Zhou
Research Activities on Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in the Past Ten Years in China Using Space Technology Dafang Zhuang, JiyuanLiu, Mingliang Liu)

PART IV APPLICATION AND POTENTIALS

 
Application of Trajectory Model, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) for Oil Spill Contingency Pllanning in Straits of Malacca H. Assilzadeh, Maged, M., S. B. Mansor, M.I.Mohamed
Agricultural Monitoring in the UK and Paraguay Using Radarsat R.E. Brown, A.D. Zmuda, F. Pekholtz, M.L. Richardson, E.J. Seaman
Flood and Soil Moisture Monitoring in the UK Using Radarsat R.E. Brown, A.D. Zmuda, J. Slater, D. Corr, M. Rast M. Stuttard
Study on Sea Surface Temperature Retrieval from NOAA/AVHRR Data in East China Sea Shuxing Dang, Chongjun Yang, Yufei Wang
An Alphabet Scheme of the Digital Sea Software System Dewen Du, Yeli Yuan, Yongfu Sun
Study on Dynamic Changes of Landuse Using Remote Sensing in Jiangning County of Nanjing Xuezhi Feng, Zhoulong Wang, Xiaomei Liu, Lei Wang
Land Suitability Evaluation and Optimal Landuse Planning Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data and Geographic Information System Techniques Jo ll Gwang
Agricultural Land Use Classification from Radarsat Images ADRO Project #669 Hussein Harahsheh
Site Suitability analysis for Urban Development Su II Hong
Quantitative Geo-Information Inverted from SSM/I and SAR Observations Yaqiu Jin
The Use of Remote Sensing Data to Monitor Riverain Forest along the Indus River in Pakistan
Aliya Kashif, Amina Rangoonwala
The Data Set of 1-km Resolution Monthly NDVI in China Mingsheng Liao, Liangming Liu, Pan Zhu, Jie Yang
Land subsidence in Guanzhong Basin, Shanxi, China - A SAR Interferometric Study
Jianguo Liu, Hoonyol Lee, Guandao Hu, Jianguo Chen
Land-Cover Classification of China Based on Integrated Analysis of AVHRR Imagery and Geo-spatial Data Di Luo, jiyuan Liu
Experimental Study on GIS Based on Implicit Topology Description Hideki Nonaka, Yutaka Ohsawa
Dynamic Simulation of the Spread of Lantana camara in a Heterogeneous Landscape Ming Peng, Jochen Albrecht, Pip Forer
GER Earth Resources Observation System (GEROS) for Sustainable Development of the Resources of the Earth John C. Petheram, Sheng-huei Chang
Land-use Classification from Digital Orthophotos and Landsat TM Data H. L. Seyler, Jiaping Wu, Jincheng Gao
RADARSAT Data for Operational Rice Monitoring and Its Potential for Yield Estimation Shao Yun, Liu Hao, Fan Xiangtao, Xiao Jianhua, Dong Qing, Wang Xingyuan, S. Ross, B. Brisco,R. Brown, G. Staples
3-D Visualization of the QHD 32-6 Field Inversion Data Tai-chang Shih, Yin L. Cheung
Continental Physiography,Climate and the Global Distribution of Human Population
Christopher Small, Joel E.Cohen
Measuring Vegetation Spatial Structure Using Lidar Guoqing Sun, K. J. Ranson
SAR Data Application on Land Use Survey Changyao Wang, Yanchung Gao, QingyuanZhan, Xiaoguang Jiang
Analysis of Land Cover Spatio-Temporal Change Using NOAA AVHRR Data Changyao Wang, Zheng Niu, Ryutaro Tateishi, Xiuwan Chen
Visualization and Interactive Mapping of Statistical Data in Internet Environment Yufei Wang, Donglin Liu, Hongzhi Yang
The Application of Digital Earth in the Intellectualized City Economy Yuquan Wang, Qiang Li, Jingye Wang, Xin Chen
The Establishment of GIS-Oriented Databases for the Urban Digital Map Liming Wu
Information Classification & Management for MGIS and Digital Mine Lixin Wu, Keming Yang, Anwen Qi, Donghong Hu, Zhiyi Deng, Hongjun Liu
SAR Imagery: A Data Source for Digital Ocean Jingsong Yang, Weigen Huang, Changbao Zhou,Aiqin Shi
Digital Processing and Information Extraction of the Remote Sensing Images in the Yangtze Three Gorges Project Region, China Wunian Yang, Zhengquan Cui, F. Cauneau, T. Ranchin, J. P. Paris, Guoliang Pu
Assessment of Human Impact on Soil Erosion Processes Within an Agricultural Watershed: A Case Study in Springvale, Australia Francis Zagolski, Charlotte Gaillard
The Use of GPS Receiver on Tsinghua-1 Microsatellite Haiyun Zhang, Martin Unwin
Exploring Uncertainties in Digital Photogrammetric Mapping of Vegetated Terrain Jiongxiong Zhang, Zhaochong Wu, Songbo Zhang
BRDF-Based Vegetation Indices for ADEOS-II/GLI Qingyuan Zhang
Planinging of Using Modern Agriculture High-New Information Technology for Building Stable Nation Commercial Grain and Green Agriculture Base of China Shuwen Zhang, Xinliang Xu
Analysis of Advantage on Radar Remote Sensing for Agricultural Application Zhang Wei, Yan Tailai, You Shucheng
Tsinghua-1 Microsatellite-Demonstration of EO and Disaster Monitoring Network You Zheng, Gong Ke, T. Butlin, W. Sun, MN. Sweeting
Satellite SAR Detection of Atmospheric Phenomena Over China Seas Changbao Zhou, Bin Fu, Aiqin Shi, Dongling Li
Monitoring and Study on the Thermal Distribution in Shanghai City on Scientific Engineering of "Digital City" Hongmei Zhou, Jincai Ding, Weiqiang Ge
BOQT-a New Spatial Index in the Network Computing Environment Jiefeng Zhou, Qi Li
Using Class Diagram of UML to Specify the Spatial Reference System TieWen Zhu, Ji Wang, Ning Jing
Innovations on Multi-Sensor and Multi-platform Integrated Data Acquisition   ChuangVicent Tao
Immersive Digital Earth Modeling and Visualization by GOCAD VR Toolkit Qiang Chen, Fabien Bosquet,Jean-Claude Dulac,Zongjin Ma