Title  Towards Digital Earth-Proceedings of the International  Symposium On Digital Earth
 
 ISBN
 7-03-005600-0
 Author
 Guanhua Xu and Yuntai Chen
 
 Pages
 1086 pages,(2-Vol. Set)  with a CD-ROM
 Pub. Date
 (Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 1999 ,  Beijing, China)
 
 Formation
 Soft cover
 Size
  210x 285 mm
 
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 US$145 +$ 18=US$163 
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  229 papers including 37 abstracts are collected in the proceedings. The authors from 27 countries. These papers analyze the theoretical and technical basis and practical sense of the construction of the digital earth, especially pointing out that the Digital Earth can contribute a great deal to the sustainable development of the world. It ghas been analyzed that "Digital Earth" is located at the froefront of earth , space and information sciences and their associated technologies, and it would be the inevitable outcome of science, economy, politics, and society and their historical development.

CONTENTS Preface

A Speech at the International Symposium on Digital earth
  • PART I:  KEYNOTE SPEECHES
  • Building up the Digital Earth Together, Sharing Global Data Resources Each Other
  • Building the Digital Earth, Promoting China’s and global Sustainable Development
  • GeoConnections- Canada’s Geographic information on the Internet
  • The Global Spatial Data infrastructure initiative and its Relationship to the Vision of a Digital Earth
  • Implementing Digital Earth: A Research Agenda
  • Digital Earth and Finland: In Situ and Remote Sensing Data for Environmental Applications
  • Towards Peaceful Uses for Space Technologies: How to follow up the Vienna Declaration of UNISPACE III?
  • Transformation of Cartographic Image into a Digital Model
  • The Potential of Virtual reality Imagery to the Digital Earth Concept
  • Integrated Global Observing Strategy - Putting the Vision Earth into Actions by International Communities
  • The Digital Earth: Spatial Data Infrastructures from Local to Global Concept

  • PART II:  VISION AND CONCEPTS OF DIGITAL EATRH
  • Geo-graphic Information Science and Digital earth
  • Data Formats for Digital Earth
  • Digital Agriculture-One of Application Domain of Digital Earth
  • Scientific Engineering of Digital Earth
  • NASA-Sponsored U.S.FGDC Remote Sensing Standards
  • Next Generation Data and Information Systems for earth Sciences Research
  • Thinking in Framework of Digital Earth Integrated Interactive System
  • Geographic Exploration of Digital Earth
  • Application of Digital Earth and Sustainable Development of Mining Area
  • Digital Earthand the Research on Complexity of Economic Systems
  • Digital Earth: The Informationized Earth in the Knowledge Economy
  • Building up an Earth Observing System for digital Earth
  • Digital Earth and Decreasing and Preventing Disaster and Sustainable Development
  • Prospects and Problems of GIS in India
  • Construction of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Under China s Digital Earth Development Strategy
  • Earth Observing and Distributed Data Information System for Earth systems Sciences
  • Development of geo-Historical Data Handling GIS and Realization of Digital Earth Concept
  • A Study on Security Policy in National Geospatial Databases
  • China s National Geographic Information strategy: Lessons Learnt from First Generation Initiators
  • On the Application of Multi-scope Digital Earth Models in Virtual Earth
  • Geomatics and Digital Earth
  • Research on Mathematical Model and Spatial- Temporal Geodesic Reference of Digital Earth
  • Study On Geographic Information Generalization Based on Digital Earth
  • Object-Relational Data Structure & Organization of Massive Geo-Spatial Data
  • Consideration on Configuring Digital Earth Basis Framework
  • Digital Space and earth System with Composite Satellites System
  • Mining of Satellite Data for Mineral Exploration
  • DIAL Access to Distributed Digital Earth Remote Sensing Data
  • Digital Cities I: Integrating Data and Information Resources
  • A Process-Based Temporal Data Model for Digital Earth
  • An Overview of NASA’s Terra Spacecraft and Mission
  • Peer Review for the Digital Earth:  A Journal of Earth System Science Education
  • Development of Digital Earth in China
  • Here Comes the Age of the Digital Earth and Digital Meteorology
  • Geothermics and Digital Earth
  • Cadastral Management in the Context of Digital Earth
  • Study of the National Spatial Information Infrastructure (NSII)Standards
  • A Technique Prototype of NSII in China : The National Spatial Information Network System
  • Some Progresses of National Spatial Information Infrastructure in China
  • Development of the National Spatial Information Infrastructure (NSII) in China
  • The Digital Earth and Meteorological Satellite Program of China
  • PART III : THEORIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
  • Study on the Interconnection and Interoperability of Information Systems for the Digitized Battlefield
  • Research On Methods of Dynamically Monitoring Flooding by Space Technology
  • Research on Geospatial Information Web Sharing Language-GeoML
  • A Digital Atmosphere by Numerical Weather Prediction Model
  • Choice of Space and Time Windows for the Comparison of Altimeter-Derived Sea Surface Wind Speeds with in Situ Measurements
  • Speed Up the Construction of the Capital Spatial Data Infrastructure Greet the Digital Capital
  • Terralnfo: An Electronic Atlas of the Globe
  • A Multiple Outlier Detection Algorithm for Instantaneous Ambiguity Resolution
  • for Carrier Phase-Based GNSS Poairioning
  • System Configuration and Processing Method for Forward Looking SAR with Two Receiving Antennas
  • Urban Expansion Research Based on Multi-Temporal RS Information
  • Precision and Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data for Quantitative Analysis of Vegetation
  • Change in a Semi-arid Region
  • Monitoring Extreme Rainfall Events in an Alpine Region Using Two C-band Radars and a Network of Gages
  • Radiative Properties of the Middle Atmosphere
  • Virtual Geographical Environments: Concept, Design and Application
  • Organizing and Managing of Distributed Geographical Information
  • Numerical Modeling on a Hazardous Microburst-Producing Hailstorm
  • AVHRR-Based Forest Probability Mapping And Reference Data Collection Method
  • The Use of GIS to Identify Environmental Factors Associated with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Transmission Risk In Northeast Sinai, Egypt
  • Color Spaces and their Conversions for Digital Earth
  • Study on Digital Mine and Related Key Technologies
  • An IAES Model for Spatio-temporal Process of Land Subdivision
  • Space-based Information Network for earth Observation
  • An Implementation Model of Open Distributed Object GIS for Multiple GIS Server Based on CORBA
  • DLR’s SAR Activities Objectives and Results
  • Recovery of Vegetation Characteristics Using Neural Networks
  • Geocovertm  - Ortho and Geocovertm-Lc: Orthorectified Landsat Tm/Mss Data and Derived
  •  Land Cover for the World
  • Visual Aids for Path Guiding
  • The Problems of Representation
  • GeoStar-A China Made GIS Software for Digital Earth
  • A Personalized Active Services and Decision-making System-Multiagent-Based
  • Data Mining Approach
  • Visualization with Levl of Detail at Multi-Scale in 3D GIS
  • Non-Diffusive Lateral Transport on the Moon: The Importance of High Velocity Ejecta
  • The Research and Development of Land-use Planning Management Information System
  • Intelligent Agent System on Web GIS
  • Data Warehouse of Spatial Information
  • Digital Harbor’s Multi-Dimension Modeling and Presentation
  • A Method of Registration Between Images Based on Split-Window Auto-Correlation Technique
  • Scale: A Fundamental Dimension in Spatial Representation
  • Proposing the Forest Engineering of Digital Earth
  • Fractal and Its Application in Description of Spatial Information
  • Development and Application in Description of Spatial Information
  • Development and Application of digital Mini-area
  • An Operational State Land Use/Cover Monitoring System in China Based on Remote Sensing and GIS Technology
  • Data Models For Interoperability
  • The PRF Selection for Space-borne SAR
  • Geographical Spatio-Temporal Hierarchical System and Digital earth
  • A Study on the Model of Agent-based Distributed GIS
  • Automatic Registration of Sea WIFS and AVHRR Imagery
  • Extraction of Crop Information from RADARSAT-1 Imagery
  • GIS-Based Modeling of Karst Geosystems
  • Atmospheric Correction and Inverse Modeling of AVIRIS Data to Obtain Water Constituent Abundances
  • A Process-based Temporal Data Model for Digital Earth
  • Some Calibration Problems in Spectroradiometric Sensors
  • A New algorithm for ScanSAR Processing
  • Building the Spatial Decision Support Model Base
  • The Information Extraction from Radar Image Based on Fractal Dimension and Neural Networks Approach
  • Rice Parameter Retrieval and Yield Prediction Using Radarsat Data
  • Detection of Changes of Spatial Pattern in Criminal Acitvities-A Cusum Nearest-Neighbor Approach
  • Image compression with Visual Entropy-Based Segmentation
  • A SSD Feature Extraction Method for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data
  • Satellite Sensor Orientation Determination
  • The Digital Cross-Section and Its Significance
  • Digital Cities II: Monitoring the Urban Environment from Space
  • 3D Data Modeling for 3D City Road Network
  • Development of the Cloud Detection and Rehabilitation Operational System Applied to NOAA Satellite Image
  • The Structure and Gas-Sensing Characteristics of g-Fe2O3 Semiconductor Oxide
  • WWW-Based Distributed Collaborative Spatial Decision-Making System
  • Research and Application of the Multimedia GIS
  • Principle of the Visual Operation and Its Application in GIS
  • Simple Explanation of the Digital Earth and Its Implementation of Spatio-Temporal Dimensions
  • A New Type of Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Preliminary Study for Digital Landslide
  • Microwave Remote Sensing Technologies for Soil Moisture Measurement
  • GeoAgents
  • The Prospects of the Tidal Energy Development in the Pacific Countries
  • Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Within the Framework of the digital Earth
  • Equivalence of LS and Green’s Formulation for Two-dimensional Phase Unwrapping
  • Lossless Data Compression Prototype/Study for EOSDIS Data
  • Study of the Digital Earth and System Simulation Technology
  • Digital Hainan and Macro-Decision Support System
  • A Multi-Technique Integrated Flood Monitoring System and Its Applocations in China
  • Spatial Decision Support System and Its General Platform
  • Web Publishing of Spatial Information
  • Digital Earth and Future War
  • Digital Battlefield and Digital Earth
  • An Integrative Technique to Create a Digital Tectonic Activity Map (DTAM) of the Earth
  • Measurement of Urban Sprawl in a Rapid Growing Region Using Entropy
  • Synchronization Technology for Multimedia Communication in Digital Earth
  • An Approach of Differential Geometry to Data Mining
  • Research of the Management of geospatial Metadata
  • The Methods of Topology Building and Parcel Updating in Land Information System
  • Research of Knowledge Discovery in GeoSpatial Database for Digital Ocean
  • The Studies on the Architecture of Web-GIS
  • The Model of Digital Prospecting System-Establishing a Subsystem of the Digital Earth
  • Enhancing V9i Model for Spatial Relationships with Voronoi Distance
  • Dynamic Spatial Indexing Model Based on Voronoi
  • Support of Pixel Location Technology of Remotely Sensed Image to Organically Integration and Conformity of Global Information
  • Research Activities on Land-use/Land-cover Change in the Past Ten Years in China Using Space Technology
  • PART IV:  APPLICATION AND POTENTIALS
  • Application of Trajectory Model, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) for Oil Spill Contingency Planning in Straits of Malacca
  • Agricultural Monitoring in the UK and Paraguay Using Radarsat
  • Flood and Soil Moisture Monitoring in the UK Using Radarsat
  • Study on Sea Surface Temperature Retrieval from NOAA/AVHRR Data in East China Sea
  • An Alphabet Scheme of the Digital Sea Software System
  • Study on Dynamic Changes of Landuse Using Remote Sensing in Jiangning County of Nanjing
  • Land Suitability Evaluation and Optimal Landuse Planning Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data and Geographic Information System Techniques
  • Agricultural Land Use Classification from Radarsat Images ADRO Project #669
  • Site Suitability Analysis for Urban Development
  • Quantitative Geo-Information Inverted from SSM/ and SAR Observations
  • The Use of Remote Sensing Data to Monitor Riverain Forest along the Indus River in Pakistan
  • Ten Data Set of 1-km Resolution Monthly NDVI in China
  • Land subsidence in Guanzhong Basin, Shanxi, China-A Sar Interferometric Study
  • Land-Cover Classification of China Based on Integrated Analysis of AVHRR Imagery and Geo-spatial Data
  • Experimental Study on GIS Based on Implicit Toplolgy Description
  • Dynamic Simulation of the Spread of Lantana camara in a Heterogeneous Landscape
  • GER Earth Resources Observation System (GEROS) for Sustainable Development of the Resources of the Earth
  • Land-use Classification from Digital Orthophotos ad Landsat TM Data
  • Radar sat Data for Operational Rice Monitoring and its Potential for Yield estimation
  • 3-D Visualization of the QHK 32-6 Field Inversion Data
  • continental Physiography, Climate and the Global Distribution of Human Population
  • Measuring Vegetation Spatial Structure Using Radar
  • SAR Data Application on Land Use Survey
  • Analysis of Land Cover Spatio-Temporal Change Using NOAA AVHRR Data
  • Visualization and Interactive Mapping of Statistical Data in internet Environment
  • The Application of Digital Earth in the Intellectualized City Economy
  • The Establishment of GIS-Oriented Databases for the Urban Digital Map
  • Information Classification & Management for MGIS and Digital Mine
  • SAR Imagery: A Data Source for Digital Ocean
  • Digital Processing and Information Extraction of the Remote Sensing Images in the Yangtze Three Gorges Project Region, China
  • Assessment of Human Impact on Soil Erosion Processes Within an Agricultural Watershed: A Case
  • Study in Springvale , Australia
  • The Use of GPS Receiver on Tsinghua-1 Microsatellite
  • Exploring Uncertainties in Digital Photogrammetric Mapping of Vegetated Terrain BRDF-Based Vegetation Indices for ADEOS-II/GLI
  • Planning of Using Modern Agriculture High-New Information Technology for Building Stable Nation Commercial Grain and Green Agriculture Base of China
  • Analysis of advantage on Radar Remote Sensing for Agricultural Application
  • Tsinghua-1 Microsatellite-Demonstration of EO and Disaster Monitoring Network
  • Satellite SAR Detection of Atmospheric Phenomena over China Seas
  • Monitoring and Study on the Thermal Distribution in Shanghai City on Scientific Engineering of Digital City
  • BOQT-A New Spatial Index in the Network Computing Environment
  • Using Class Diagram of UML to Specify the Spatial Reference System
  • PART V:   ABSTRACT


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