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The International Society for Digital Earth is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the
Digital Earth Digital Earth is the name given to a concept by former US vice president Al Gore in 1998, describing a virtual representation of the Earth that is georeferenced and connected to the world's digital knowledge archives. Concept Original vision In a ...
concept. It publishes the ''
International Journal of Digital Earth The ''International Journal of Digital Earth'' is an academic journal about Digital Earth published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the International Society for Digital Earth. It focus on concepts such as "Earth observation, geographic inform ...
''. It is recognized as one of the main international Geospatial Societies by the
United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) is an initiative of the United Nations to foster the global development geospatial information. Geospatial Societies The ''UN-GGIM Geospatial Societies'' ...
. It is also a member of the
Group on Earth Observations The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) coordinates international efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). It links existing and planned Earth observation systems and supports the development of new ones in cases of pe ...
.


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International geographic data and information organizations Members of the International Science Council {{International-org-stub