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USGIF Board Member Emeritus Michael F. Goodchild and the Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science released an position paper titled “Next-Generation Digital Earth” that is worthwhile reading – and should be required reading for everyone within the community who are to shape research and policy over the next 5 to 10 years.

Published in the International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (2008, Vol. 3, 146-167) the paper is self described as the “outcome of a joint reflection by a group of international geographic and environmental scientists from government, industry, and academia … It argues that the vision of Digital Earth put forward by Vice-President Al Gore 10 years ago needs to be re-evaluated in the light of the many developments in the fields of information technology, data infrastructures, and earth observation that have taken place since.”

Tags: Earth Observation, Gore, IJSDIR, USGIF