6th Digital Earth Summit

Abstract

The papers in this proceeding are contributions written by participants at the 6th Digital Earth Summit held 7-8 July, 2016 in Beijing, China. Under the theme "Digital Earth in the Era of Big Data", the 6th Digital Earth Summit aims to provide an international platform to focus on the application and technologies of Digital Earth for new developments and advances in the context of big data. In total, over 184 abstracts were selected for presentations in “Digital Earth Application in the Context of Big Data", “Big Data and Mountain Surface Process", and “The Role of Open Standards in the Era of Big Data" at 13 scientific sessions and 2 poster sessions. The main topics of the Summit are well represented by the papers in this proceeding. The Co-Chairs of the Summit was Huadong GUO (Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Alessandro ANNONI (Joint Research Center, European Commission). The Organizing Committee for the Summit was chaired by Yongwei LIU (Chinese National Committee of International Society for Digital Earth) and Xinyuan WANG (Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences).We would like to thank the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI) of CAS, the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST), under the Auspices of UNESCO, the CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence on Space Technology for Disaster Mitigation (SDIM), Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), Chinese National Committee of ISDE, Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Sciences of CAS, without whose generous support the Summit could not have taken place. Special thanks also go to the staff at IOP Publishing Ltd., UK.