TY - JOUR
T1 - Next-generation digital earth
AU - Goodchild, Michael F.
AU - Guo, Huadong
AU - Annoni, Alessandro
AU - Bian, Ling
AU - de Bie, Kees
AU - Campbell, Frederick
AU - Craglia, Max
AU - Ehlers, Manfred
AU - van Genderen, John
AU - Jackson, Davina
AU - Lewis, Anthony J.
AU - Pesaresi, Martino
AU - Remetey-Fülöpp, Gábor
AU - Simpson, Richard
AU - Skidmore, Andrew
AU - Wang, Changlin
AU - Woodgate, Peter
PY - 2012/7/10
Y1 - 2012/7/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863936923&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.1202383109
DO - 10.1073/pnas.1202383109
M3 - Review article
C2 - 22723346
AN - SCOPUS:84863936923
VL - 109
SP - 11088
EP - 11094
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 28
ER -