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Digital Earth is the name given to a concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998, describing a virtual representation of the Earth that is georeferenced and connected to the world's digital knowledge archives.
The analysis highlights Science, Art, Technology and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Digital Earth.
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
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The extracted context around Digital Earth shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Digital Earth → African, African GIS Conference, Beijing, Chinese Academy, February, Functional User Requirements, Geographic Information Working Group, GIS, Google, Google Earth, GSDI/DE, However, In, Inc, International Symposium, ISDE Secretariat, Johannesburg, June, Kenya November, Keyhole Another extracted example is Digital Earth → Between, Europe, Group, IDEW, Infrastructure, INSPIRE, International Organization, ISO, NASA-chaired Interagency Digital Earth, Open Geospatial Consortium, SDI's, Significant, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Spatial Information, Standardization, The, UN Geographic Information Working, UNIGWG, UNSDI Initiative, Web Map Service. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 202 structured relationships around Digital Earth. Examples in this analysis include Digital Earth → is a → name given to a concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998 and Digital Earth → is a → integral part of other advanced technologies including. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Earth | is a | name given to a concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998 | 0.90 | text |
| Digital Earth | is a | integral part of other advanced technologies including | 0.90 | text |
| Digital Earth | is a | peer-reviewed research journal | 0.90 | text |
| NASA World Wind | instance of | virtual globe geo-browsers | 0.80 | text |
| Google Earth | instance of | virtual globe geo-browsers | 0.80 | text |
| Microsoft's Bing Maps 3D for commercial | instance of | virtual globe geo-browsers | 0.80 | text |
| social | instance of | virtual globe geo-browsers | 0.80 | text |
| scientific applications | instance of | virtual globe geo-browsers | 0.80 | text |
| Google Earth | instance of | giving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes | 0.80 | text |
| NASA's World Wind | instance of | giving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes | 0.80 | text |
| and ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer has grown significantly as their functionality has improved | instance of | giving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes | 0.80 | text |
| with the KML format having become the de facto standard for globe visualizations | instance of | giving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes | 0.80 | text |
The concept neighborhoods around Digital Earth bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Earth, International and Information. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Digital Earth, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Digital Earth with Background. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Digital Earth to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Science, Art, Technology & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Digital Earth · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout