Digital Earth is the name given to a concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998, describing a virtual representation of the Earth that is georeferenced and connected to the world's digital knowledge archives.
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The Digital Earth imagined in the speech has been defined as an "organizing vision" to steer scientists and technologists towards a shared goal, promising substantial advances in many scientific and engineering areas, similar to the Information superhighway.
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Two noteworthy excerpts from the Beijing Declaration on Digital Earth, ratified September 12,2009 at the 6th International Symposium on Digital Earth in Beijing:.
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Significant progress towards Digital Earth has been achieved over the last decade as collected in a survey paper by Mahdavi-Amiri et al.
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Between 1998 and 2001, the NASA-chaired Interagency Digital Earth Working Group contributed to this growth with a particular focus on interoperability issues, giving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.
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International Journal of Digital Earth is a peer-reviewed research journal, launched in 2008, concerned with the science and technology of Digital Earth and its applications in all major disciplines.
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International Society for Digital Earth 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.
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The 4th Digital Earth Summit was held in Wellington, New Zealand in September, 2012.
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However, the philosophical foundations for Digital Earth can be more closely aligned with the increased awareness of global changes and the need to better understand the concepts of sustainability for the planet's survival.
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In 1999, NASA was selected to head a new Interagency Digital Earth Working Group, due to its reputation for technology innovations and its focus on the study of planetary change.
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Components for development of 3-D Digital Earth graphic-user-interfaces were placed into various technological sectors to stimulate cooperative development support.
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Digital Earth was relegated to a minority status within the FGDC, used primarily to define 3-D visualization reference models.
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In China, Digital Earth became a metaphor for modernization and automation with computers, leading to its incorporation into a five-year modernization plan.
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In 2000, the United Nations Environment Programme advanced the Digital Earth to enhance decision-makers' access to information for then Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the United Nations Security Council.
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Keyhole Technology, Inc was contracted to develop and demonstrate the first full globe 3-D interactive Digital Earth using web-stream data from a distributed database located on servers around the planet.
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Japan, led by Keio University and JAXA, has played a prominent international role in Digital Earth helping to create the Digital Asia Network with a secretariat located in Bangkok to promote regional cooperation and initiatives.
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