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The development of Digital Earth technologies and the results of Global Change research are two areas
where exciting progress has happened in recent years.
Geoinformatics developments are leading to global spatial infrastructures that are being used as Digital Earth models
and to inquire attributes from each location on Earth. On the basis of
simulations with numerical climate models and on the analysis of observational data, climate researchers have shown that
human activities are likely to induce drastic climate changes within this century. Their success
is emphasized by the recent Peace Nobel prize that was shared by Al Gore and
the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and the Society for Geoinformatics (GfGI) believe that it is about time that
scientists from both communities come together to discuss the advantages of a closer cooperation between Geoinformatics
specialists and scientist involved in Global Change research. Although both communities are involved in Digital Earth modeling
they have so far stayed very much within their respective scientific boundaries. Consequently, the Society for Geoinformatics
(GfGI) which is based in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) will bring
together scientists and practitioners from both fields during the Digital Earth Summit on Geoinformatics: Tools for Global Change
Research.
The summit will be organized together with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GeoForschungszentrum
Potsdam (GFZ), the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, and the R&D Program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN of the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The Summit will bring together leading scientists from Geoinformatics and
Global Change research and will foster the exchange of ideas, cooperation between so-far disjoint scientific fields and provide
time for in-depth discussion. Invited key note speakers will cover relevant topics in Geoinformatics, Global Change research,
Spatial Data Infrastructures, Digital Earth initiatives, and Earth Observation activities as well as the interaction between these
fields.
Scientists are invited to submit papers in the following topics
- Data exchange models
- Earth observation programs, services, and applications
- Environmental, socio-economic and political impacts of global change
- Extreme events
- Geospatial data integration
- Global, regional, cross-country and local case studies
- Natural hazards
- Simulation and modeling techniques
- Spatial data infrastructure developments
- Supercomputers for global change research
- Urbanization and impact analysis
- Visualization
- Water resources
- 3D modeling
Please send your expression of interest by an informal email to the contact addressees shown below and your name will be included
in the conference list for all future communications.
We are now open to receive titles of potential papers for the conference. If you are interested in presenting a paper or poster
please send your abstract via email to the conference secretary koppers@afg.hs-anhalt.de or use our web site for online
submission. Abstracts should be prepared of not more than 400 words and formatted as .doc file.
Prof. Manfred Ehlers, mehlers@igf.uni-osnabrueck.de, Prof. Lothar Koppers, koppers@afg.hs-anhalt.de
Deadline for abstract submission (max. 400 words, koppers@afg.hs-anhalt.de) is 15 March 2008.
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