Next-generation Digital Earth
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.
GOODCHILD Michael;
GUO Huadong;
ANNONI Alessandro;
BIAN Ling;
DE BIE Kees;
CAMPBELL Frederick;
CRAGLIA Massimo;
EHLERS Manfred;
VAN GENDEREN John;
JACKSON Davina;
LEWIS Anthony;
PESARESI Martino;
REMETEY-FULOPP Gabor;
SIMPSON Richard;
SKIDMORE Andrew;
WANG Changlin;
WOODGATE Peter;
2012-10-23
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
JRC72904
0027-8424,
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/28/11088,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC72904,
10.1073/pnas.1202383109,
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