The 6th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE6) with the theme of Digital Earth in Action was convened on 9th and ended on 12th September,2009,in Beijing successfully. Over 1000 representatives including world-class scientists, engineers and educators attended the meeting and reviewed the progress of digital earth during the last decade and discussed the achievements of digital earth and its future development.
Digital earth is a virtual representation of our planet and a global initiative aimed at harnessing the world's data and information resources to develop a virtual 3-D model of the Earth in order to monitor, measure, and forecast natural and human activity on the planet. It has a broad domain related to earth observation, geographic information system, global positioning system, virtual reality, computer technology, network communication, geosciences and social sciences, etc.
Since the promulgation of the Beijing Declaration on Digital Earth at the First International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) in 1999, digital earth has prospered and made great progress in both theory and applications. The international symposia on digital earth have been held in Canada, Czech Republic, Japan, and the United States every two years since 2001, and Digital Earth Summits were convened in New Zealand and Germany in 2006 and 2008 respectively. The 6th ISDE "Digital Earth in Action" mainly focused on the technological advances and the various emerging applications linking digital earth and many other relating technologies.
Several world-class scientists in the fields of Digital Earth delivered keynote speeches on different topics. An exhibition about technology and applications of Digital Earth were on display. The organization committee of the meeting decided the next meeting will be held at Australia.
The 6th ISDE played a crucial role in putting forward international exchange and cooperation in building and developing digital earth theory, technology and applications.
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