ISDE International Lecture Series Successfully Initiated

On November 18th, 2022, the 1st ISDE International Lectures was successfully held online, marking the initiation of the lecture series of ISDE.  With the theme of “Digital Earth: Past, Present and Future Perspectives”, the 1st Lectures were launched at the occasion of three-year publication of the monography- Manual of Digital Earth and the celebration of its nearly one million downloads. Three Editors-in-Chief of Manual of Digital Earth, who are also world-known experts in the field of Digital Earth were invited to give lectures.Prof. Huadong Guo, Honorary President of International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and Director General of International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS) gave a lecture on “Digital Earth in Facilitating of SDGs”. He briefed UN’s Strategic Framework, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism. And then he introduced the work of CASEarth, the Digital Earth Platform in the SDGs evaluation and the contribution of CBAS in support of UN’s SDGs. Prof. Guo believed that Digital Earth as a powerful tool to understand and link complex interactions between human activity and earth systems will help to drive SDGs.Prof. Michael F. Goodchild, Emeritus Professor at Geography Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara made a video lecture on “Digital Earth as a Digital Twin”. He talked about what Digital Twin is, especially its definitions and purpose, and reviewed the perspectives on Digital Earth, including challenges. Then, he talked about the uncertainty and ethical issues of Digital Twins. Prof. Goodchild pointed out that “there is abundant and rapidly growing interest across industry and academia”, “the imperfect nature of all digital twins raises issues… of no standards” and “there are strong links between digital twins and Digital Earth”.Dr. Alessandro Annoni, President of ISDE gave a lecture on “The Impact of Digital Transformation on Digital Earth”. He looked back at the principles of Digital Earth and talked about why Digital Transformation is important for Digital Earth by articulating its impacts on Digital Earth through three key enablers: digital channels, digital analytics and digital business model(s). Then he pointed out three Digital Earth perspectives, including Innovation, Integration, and Inclusivity. Dr. Annoni concluded that it is inevitable that “Digital Earth vision should adapt to the societal changes, but its main underlined principles should not change over time: Ecosystem nature and openness (i.e. viability and evolvability), Usability (i.e. user-centric, and transparency), Public good for the sustainable development of society (i.e. application driven)”.Dr. Alessandro Annoni delivered welcoming remarks at the beginning of the event. The event was moderated by Prof. Milan Konečný, from Masaryk University, the Czech Republic. More than 3,700 participants worldwide watched the Lectures through Zoom, ISDE Bilibili platform and other academic streaming platforms.The ISDE International Lectures are organized by the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and supported by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS). It is a series of online events which feature invited lectures by well-known international experts in the field of Digital Earth. The event will invite speakers to give lectures every two months. The purpose of the events is to bring international scholars in the relevant research fields of Digital Earth together to exchange academic perspectives, share research results, and disseminate the most cutting-edge and authoritative concept of Digital Earth. istarshine_translate: ISDE International讲座系列成功发起 2022年11月18日，第一届ISDE国际演讲成功地在线举行，标志着ISDE的讲座系列的启动。以“数字地球：过去，现在和未来的观点”为主题，第一次讲座是在《数字地球》专着的三年出版时发起的，并庆祝了近一百万个下载。邀请了数字地球领域的世界知名专家的三位数字地球手册编辑。国际数字地球学会（ISDE）荣誉主席侯顿郭，可持续发展目标大数据中心总干事（CBAS）进行了有关“数字地球促进可持续发展目标”的演讲。他简要介绍了联合国的战略框架，2030年的可持续发展议程和联合国技术促进机制。然后，他介绍了Casearth的工作，Casearth是可持续发展目标评估中的数字地球平台以及CBA为支持联合国可持续发展目标的贡献。郭教授认为，数字地球是理解和联系人类活动与地球系统之间复杂相互作用的强大工具，将有助于驱动SDGS.Prof。加利福尼亚大学地理系的名誉教授Michael F. Goodchild在圣塔芭芭拉（Santa Barbara）上进行了有关“数字地球作为数字双胞胎”的视频演讲。他谈到了什么是数字双胞胎，尤其是其定义和目的，并审查了包括挑战在内的数字地球的观点。然后，他谈到了数字双胞胎的不确定性和道德问题。GoodChild教授指出，“整个行业和学术界都有丰富而迅速的兴趣”，“所有数字双胞胎的不完美性质都会提出……没有标准的问题”，并且“数字双胞胎与数字地球之间存在牢固的联系”。。ISDE总裁亚历山德罗·安诺尼（Alessandro Annoni）就“数字转型对数字地球的影响”进行了演讲。他回顾了数字地球的原理，并谈到了为什么数字转换通过三个关键推动机阐明其对数字地球的影响：数字渠道，数字渠道，数字分析和数字业务模型（S）为何对数字地球很重要。然后他指出了三种数字地球观点，包括创新，整合和包容性。Annoni博士得出的结论是，“数字地球愿景应适应社会变化，但其主要下划线原理不应随着时间的推移而改变：生态系统的性质和开放性（即生存能力和可用性），可用性（即以用户为中心和用户和用户）透明度），为社会可持续发展的公共利益（即应用程序驱动）”。亚历山德罗·安诺尼（Alessandro Annoni）在活动开始时发表了热情的讲话。该活动由捷克共和国马萨里克大学的米兰·科涅克教授主持。全世界有3,700多名参与者通过Zoom观看了讲座，ISDE Bilibili PLISDE国际讲座由国际数字地球学会（ISDE）组织，并得到国际可持续发展目标大数据研究中心（CBA）的支持。这是一系列在线活动，其中包括数字地球领域著名国际专家的邀请演讲。该活动将邀请演讲者每两个月进行一次讲座。事件的目的是将国际学者在相关的数字地球研究领域聚集在一起，以交换学术观点，分享研究结果并传播数字地球的最前沿和权威性概念。