Digital Earth is a visionary concept for the virtual representation of the Earth that is spatially referenced and interconnected with digital knowledge archives from around the planet with vast amounts of scientific, natural, and cultural information to describe and understand the Earth and human activities.
This vision states that any citizen of the planet, linked through the Internet, should be able to access this virtual world for free.

Digital Earth is a global partnership of NGOs, educators, business, and government leaders collaborating to enable future generations unprecedented technical and educational facilities for exploring the Earth, better understanding its systems, and investigating impacts of human activities.

The Digital Earth community is dedicated to building a global commons to promote "down to Earth" solutions supported by cooperative use of standards, databases, analytical and visualization tools that will foster the creation of appropriate applications for a sustainable future.

The Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth - ISDE 5 - San Francisco, CA, USA -June 2007

Special Inaugural Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability - Aukland, NZ - Spring 2006

Past Symposia

The Fourth International Symposium on Digital Earth - ISDE 4 - Tokyo, Japan - March 2005

The Third International Symposium on Digital Earth - ISDE 3 - Brno, Czech Republic - September 2003

The Second International Symposium on Digital Earth - ISDE 2 Fredricton, NB, Canada - June 2001

The First International Symposium on Digital Earth - ISDE 1 China (Site is in Chinese)