Digital Earth for Disaster Mitigation
This chapter describes the state-of-the-art of the potential of Digital Earth for progressively better solutions for disaster mitigation. The chapter illustrates the use of strong Digital Earth tools for data sharing and important potential for users, suc
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Manual of Digital Earth
Manual of Digital Earth
Huadong Guo Michael F. Goodchild Alessandro Annoni •
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Editors
Manual of Digital Earth
Editors Huadong Guo Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
Michael F. Goodchild Department of Geography University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Alessandro Annoni Joint Research Centre European Commission Ispra, Varese, Italy
ISBN 978-981-32-9914-6 ISBN 978-981-32-9915-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3
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Preface
In October 2015, the 10th Executive Committee Meeting of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) was held in Halifax, Canada where I was elected as the third president of ISDE. I put forward a work plan for my tenure that included a proposal to publish a manual that would address questions regarding the relevance of Digital Earth, its future, and its potential to support scientific development and societal needs. The Executive Committee approved the proposal, and now, after 4 years and a culmination of efforts from numerous contributors, it is my great pleasure to present this manuscript, Manual of Digital Earth, for pu