Manual of Digital Earth

Description

This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital Earth, the evolution of that vision, the relevant key technologies, and the role of Digital Earth in helping people respond to global challenges, this publication reveals how and why Digital Earth is becoming vital for acquiring, processing, analysing and mining the rapidly growing volume of global data sets about the Earth. The main aspects of Digital Earth covered here include: Digital Earth platforms, remote sensing and navigation satellites, processing and visualizing geospatial information, geospatial information infrastructures, big data and cloud computing, transformation and zooming, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and social media. Moreover, the book covers in detail the multi-layered/multi-faceted roles of Digital Earth in response to sustainable development goals, climate changes, and mitigating disasters, the applications of Digital Earth (such as digital city and digital heritage), the citizen science in support of Digital Earth, the economic value of Digital Earth, and so on. This book also reviews the regional and national development of Digital Earth around the world, and discusses the role and effect of education and ethics. Lastly, it concludes with a summary of the challenges and forecasts the future trends of Digital Earth. By sharing case studies and a broad range of general and scientific insights into the science and technology of Digital Earth, this book offers an essential introduction for an ever-growing international audience. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Understanding Digital Earth (Zhen Liu, Tim Foresman, John van Genderen, Lizhe Wang)....Pages 1-21 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Digital Earth Platforms (Troy Alderson, Matthew Purss, Xiaoping Du, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, Faramarz Samavati)....Pages 25-54 Remote Sensing Satellites for Digital Earth (Wenxue Fu, Jianwen Ma, Pei Chen, Fang Chen)....Pages 55-123 Satellite Navigation for Digital Earth (Chuang Shi, Na Wei)....Pages 125-160 Geospatial Information Infrastructures (Sven Schade, Carlos Granell, Glenn Vancauwenberghe, Carsten Keßler, Danny Vandenbroucke, Ian Masser et al.)....Pages 161-190 Geospatial Information Processing Technologies (Zhenlong Li, Zhipeng Gui, Barbara Hofer, Yan Li, Simon Scheider, Shashi Shekhar)....Pages 191-227 Geospatial Information Visualization and Extended Reality Displays (Arzu Çöltekin, Amy L. Griffin, Aidan Slingsby, Anthony C. Robinson, Sidonie Christophe, Victoria Rautenbach et al.)....Pages 229-277 Transformation in Scale for Continuous Zooming (Zhilin Li, Haowen Yan)....Pages 279-324 Big Data and Cloud Computing (Yun Li, Manzhu Yu, Mengchao Xu, Jingchao Yang, Dexuan Sha, Qian Liu et al.)....Pages 325-355 Artificial Intelligence (Eric Guérin, Orhun Aydin, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri)....Pages 357-385 Internet of Things (Carlos Granell, Andreas Kamilaris, Alexander Kotsev, Frank O. Ostermann, Sergio Trilles)....Pages 387-423 Social Media and Social Awareness (Xinyue Ye, Bo Zhao, Thien Huu Nguyen, Shaohua Wang)....Pages 425-440 Front Matter ....Pages 441-441 Digital Earth for Sustainable Development Goals (Graciela Metternicht, Norman Mueller, Richard Lucas)....Pages 443-471 Digital Earth for Climate Change Research (Gensuo Jia, Li Zhang, Lanwei Zhu, Ronghan Xu, Dong Liang, Xiyan Xu et al.)....Pages 473-494 Digital Earth for Disaster Mitigation (Milan Konecny, Temenoujka Bandrova, Petr Kubicek, Silvia Marinova, Radim Stampach, Zdenek Stachon et al.)....Pages 495-526 Digital City: An Urban Perspective on Digital Earth (Davina Jackson, Richard Simpson)....Pages 527-563 Digital Heritage (Xinyuan Wang, Rosa Lasaponara, Lei Luo, Fulong Chen, Hong Wan, Ruixia Yang et al.)....Pages 565-591 Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth (Maria Antonia Brovelli, Marisa Ponti, Sven Schade, Patricia Solís)....Pages 593-622 The Economic Value of Digital Earth (Max Craglia, Katarzyna Pogorzelska)....Pages 623-643 Front Matter ....Pages 645-645 Digital Earth in Europe (Mattia Marconcini, Thomas Esch, Felix Bachofer, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini)....Pages 647-681 Digital Earth in Australia (Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Cheryl Desha, Luis Perez-Mora)....Pages 683-711 Digital Earth in China (Jiantao Bi, Yongwei Liu, Ainong Li, Min Chen, Ruixia Yang, Wenwen Cai et al.)....Pages 713-732 Digital Earth in Russia (Yuri M. Baturin, Valentina T. Dmitrieva, Eugene N. Eremchenko, Lyudmila V. Massel, Oleg A. Nikonov, Alexei A. Romanov et al.)....Pages 733-752 Front Matter ....Pages 753-753 Digital Earth Education (Cuizhen Wang, Camelia M. Kantor, Jerry T. Mitchell, Todd S. Bacastow)....Pages 755-783 Digital Earth Ethics (Yola Georgiadou, Ourania Kounadi, Rolf A. de By)....Pages 785-810 Digital Earth Challenges and Future Trends (John van Genderen, Michael F. Goodchild, Huadong Guo, Chaowei Yang, Stefano Nativi, Lizhe Wang et al.)....Pages 811-827 Back Matter ....Pages 829-852