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Keynote Speakers
Several world-class scientists in the fields of Digital Earth have agreed to deliver keynote speeches. |
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José Achache
Director of GEO Secretariat
GEOSS, The Global Earth Observation System of Systems: An Operable Digital Earth |
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Xu Guanhua
Former Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, China
Digital Earth and Global Change |
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Myra Bambacus
NASA Program Manager
Digital Earth in the United States: An Era of Interdisciplinary Earth Science |
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Guo Huadong
Secretary-General, International Society for Digital Earth
Digital Earth：Ten Years Experiences |
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Luigi Fusco
Senior Advisor for Earth Observation Applications-EO Science and Application
Department-ESA ESRIN
Emerging Infrastructures for managing the Digital Earth: Experience at ESA (Click)
Emerging Infrastructures for managing the Digital Earth: Experience at ESA
Luigi Fusco
Senior Advisor for Earth Observation Applications, European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati (Italy)
A common dedicated infrastructure would permit the Earth Science communities to derive objective information and to share knowledge in all environmental sensitive domains over a continuum of time (from historical measurement to real time assessment to short and long term predictions) and a variety of geographical scales (from global scale to very local facts) so addressing urgent and priority challenges such as Global Change. Federating data, information and knowledge for the management of our fragile planet is one of the major goals of the Digital Earth initiative.
With this perspective, the European Space Agency (ESA) participates to several projects and cooperation programmes aimed at the development of an Earth Science community dedicated platform that makes use of emerging technologies, such as: Grid, Web Services, Open Architecture, Sensor Web Networks....
Starting from the experience gained so far with ESA Grid Processing on Demand infrastructure, and the results of various EC supported projects, in this presentation we discuss, among other project results, the achievements in the implementation of a collaboration platform for the federation and management of Earth Science Digital Repositories (GENESI-DR ‘Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations–Digital Repositories’ project, see http://www.genesi-dr.eu). Such a dedicated community platform enables scientists to discover, locate, access, combine and integrate historical and fresh Earth-related data from space, airborne and in-situ sensors archived in large distributed repositories. Technical analysis as well as examples demonstrating the capabilities and advantages of this platform will be provided.
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Mario Hernandez
Chief, Remote Sensing Unit, UNESCO
UNESCO in Partnership with Space Agencies Digital Documentation of
Natural and Cultural Heritage |
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He Changchui
Assistant Director-General & Regional Representative, FAO, United Nations
Building a Global Partnership for Digital Earth Applications for Sustainable Development |
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Alessandro Annoni
Head of the Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Center, European Commission
Digital Europe: be Inspired |
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Michael Jones
Chief Technology Advocate, Google Inc.
Lessons from the first 600 Million Digital Earth users (Click)
Lessons from the first 600 Million Digital Earth users
Michael T. Jones
Chief Technology Advocate, Google Inc.
More than 1/2 billion people use Digital Earth technologies in their daily lives. We can now reflect on accomplishments to date to understand how these technologies are changing societies, educating people, and creating unimagined possibilities. Mr. Jones will discuss how users of products at the center of this revolution--Google Earth, Maps, StreetView, MapMaker--have implemented uses and developed expectations beyond even the grandest initial visions of Digital Earth.
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Michael Goodchild
Professor, University of California, USA
Digital Earth: A DECADAL ASSESSMENT |
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Tong Qingxi
Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Digital Earth and Digital China |
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Shunji Murai
Secretary General, Asian Association on Remote Sensing
Can we predict Earthquake with GPS Data |
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Delilah H.A. Al Khudhairy
Head, Global security and crisis management, Institute for the Protection and
Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Center, European Commission
Geo-spatial information and technologies in support of EU Crisis Management |
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John Townshend
Professor, Maryland University, USA
Integrated Global Observations of the Land: Challenges in transforming a plan into reality |
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Xie Xuejin
Professor, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Digitized Element Earth (Click)
Digital Element Earth
Xie Xuejing
Professor, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
In a speech in Los Angel 1998, Al Gore pictured a digital future that any citizen linked through the internet, should be able to access vast amt of free information of a virtual world. Since then vast amt of information has been obtained on the internet from down-to-earth investigations with precision unprecedented before. Also vast amount of on-earth investigations already accumulated has been digitized providing ground truth to improve understanding of our planet by down-to-earth investigations.
Life on planet earth has developed in the presence of all the naturally occurring 97 elements in the periodic table. Mineral and Organic resources of all kind are composed ultimately by elements and their compounds. One of a great challenge in the future is to provide consistent relevant high-quality multi-element distribution data to support environmental regulation and resources assessment and management. Such kind of data can only be obtained at present and the foreseen future by on-earth geochemical mapping at all scales.
The present talk describes the 30 years effort in China in carrying out multi-element, multi-media and multi-scale geochemical mapping projects to delineated 39-76 element distribution in China and the construction of the "Digital Element Earth" data base. This effort is not only for more in-depth understanding of our planet earth, but also with the hope to arise finally the awareness of society and governments for better stewardship of resources management and environment regulations.
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D.R.F.Taylor
President, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
Global Map: International Cooperation in the Mapping Sciences |
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Li Deren
Professor, Wuhan University
Towards a Geospatial Service Web |
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Armin Gruen
Professor, Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Landscape and 3D city modeling for Digital Earth |
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Bas Kok
Past President , Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI)
Building Bridges between the Space Community and SDI Community |
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Michael Abrams
U.S. ASTER Science Team Leader, NASA/JPL
GDEM: The Aster Global Topographic Data Set |
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Robert Chen
Secretary General, Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
How an Information Commons Approach Can Benefit the Digital Earth |
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William A. Sprigg
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
Digital Earth Contributions to Air Quality and Public Health |
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Hugues Pavie
General Manager, Beijing Spot Image
SPOT System Continuity: Providing Imagery for Global Mapping in the Long Term |
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Ruediger Wagner
General Manager, GSD, Asia.
Latest Airborne Sensor Technology - A Key to Developing the Digital Earth |
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