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Digital Earth

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.

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Digital Earth

Nodes78
Edges77
Triples202
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025641
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Digital Earth

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related to United Nations · 39
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
related to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) · 21
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
related to Original vision · 18
Digital Earth → But, California Science Center, Earth, Geoscope, Google Earth, Gore, In, Information, Internet, January, Los Angeles, Many, Microsoft's Bing Maps, NASA World Wind, Terravision, That, The, The Digital Earth
related to United States · 16
Digital Earth → Attention, Buckminster Fuller, Cold War, Defense, Department, Earth, Fall, Federal Geospatial Data Committee, FGDC, From Fall, GeoScope, However, NASA, Technology, Therefore, These
related to China · 14
Digital Earth → Beijing, China, China's, Chinese, Chinese Academy, Gore Digital Earth, Hundreds, In, In China, International Society, International Symposium, NGOs, Originating, Sciences
related to Next-generation digital Earth · 14
Digital Earth → Advancement, Asking, Based, Enabling, Engaging, European Commission, Geographic Information Science, GIS, Joint Research Centre, Next-Generation Digital Earth, Not, Problem, Supporting, Vespucci Initiative
related to Digital Earth Reference Model (DERM) · 13
Digital Earth → Al Gore's, An, Boolean, Data, DERM, Digital Earth Reference Model, Discrete, Earth, Grid, Internet, The, The Digital Earth, Tim Foresman
related to External links · 12
Digital Earth → ADEPT, Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype, Archived, ChinaPYXIS WorldView Studio, CollaborationDigital, DERM, Earth Reference Model, Era, Global Spatial Data Model, GSDM, Planetary Skin, Wayback MachineUS Government Digital
related to Further reading · 11
Digital Earth → Alessandro, Annoni, Goodchild, Guo, Huadong, ISBN, Manual, Michael, S2CID, Singapore, Springer
see also · 8
Digital Earth → Cartographic Association, Destination Earth, Digital, European Union, ICA, International Society, ISDE, Spatial

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Digital Earthis aname given to a concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 19980.90text
Digital Earthis aintegral part of other advanced technologies including0.90text
Digital Earthis apeer-reviewed research journal0.90text
NASA World Windinstance ofvirtual globe geo-browsers0.80text
Google Earthinstance ofvirtual globe geo-browsers0.80text
Microsoft's Bing Maps 3D for commercialinstance ofvirtual globe geo-browsers0.80text
socialinstance ofvirtual globe geo-browsers0.80text
scientific applicationsinstance ofvirtual globe geo-browsers0.80text
Google Earthinstance ofgiving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes0.80text
NASA's World Windinstance ofgiving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes0.80text
and ESRI's ArcGIS Explorer has grown significantly as their functionality has improvedinstance ofgiving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes0.80text
with the KML format having become the de facto standard for globe visualizationsinstance ofgiving rise to the Web Map Service standard among others.GeobrowsersThe scientific use of geo-browser virtual globes0.80text

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