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Real-Time Interactive Multimodal Systems for Physiological and Emotional Wellbeing
There has been lately significant progress in the design of clinically assistive technologies for physiological and emotional wellbeing, driven by...
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Algae Building: Is This the New Smart Sustainable Technology?
Building energy use contributes around 40% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (UNEP F, Fiduciary responsibility: Legal and practical aspects of...
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Smart Equity: An Australian Lens on the Need to Measure Distributive Justice
This chapter reviews ideas on the multidimensional measurement of wellbeing from economics, and proposes that smart cities must include equity as an...
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Conceptualization of Smart City: A Methodological Framework for Smart Infrastructure, Smart Solutions and Smart Governance
The concept of ‘Smart City’ has witnessed widespread applications across several city planning and development domains with specific emphasis on...
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Digital Heritage
Natural and cultural heritage, the common wealth of human beings, are keys to human understanding of the evolution of our planet and social...
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Geospatial Information Processing Technologies
The increasing availability of geospatial data offers great opportunities for advancing scientific discovery and practices in society. Effective and...
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Transformation in Scale for Continuous Zooming
This chapter summarizes the theories and methods in continuous zooming for Digital Earth. It introduces the basic concepts of and issues in...
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Big Data and Cloud Computing
Big data emerged as a new paradigm to provide unprecedented content and value for Digital Earth. Big Earth data are increasing tremendously with...
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Internet of Things
Digital Earth was born with the aim of replicating the real world within the digital world. Many efforts have been made to observe and sense the...
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Digital Earth in Europe
In recent years, with the advancements in technology and research as well as changes in society, Digital Earth transformed. It evolved from its...
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Remote Sensing Satellites for Digital Earth
The term remote sensing became common after 1962 and generally refers to nonintrusive Earth observation using electromagnetic waves from a platform...
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Digital Earth Platforms
In this chapter, we provide a thorough discussion on Digital Earth with particular focus on Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS), which are a...
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Satellite Navigation for Digital Earth
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) have been widely used in navigation, positioning, and timing. China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System...
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Digital Earth Education
Digital Earth (DE) education provides students with geospatial knowledge and skills to locate, measure, and solve geographic problems on Earth’s...
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Artificial Intelligence
In this chapter, we provide an overview of different artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques and discuss how these...
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Data-driven Multivalence in the Built Environment
This book sets the stage for understanding how the exponential escalation of digital ubiquity in the contemporary environment is being absorbed,...
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Manual of Digital Earth
This open access book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision of Digital...
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Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth
Citizen science can be thought of as a tremendous catalyst for making Digital Earth a participation model of our world. This chapter presents a wide...
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Digital Earth Challenges and Future Trends
The previous 25 chapters introduced relevant technologies, applications, and other topics related to Digital Earth. Respective challenges and future...
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Digital Earth for Disaster Mitigation
This chapter describes the state-of-the-art of the potential of Digital Earth for progressively better solutions for disaster mitigation. The chapter...