This document summarizes a workshop on Digital Earth hosted by the European Association of Geographers. The workshop aimed to introduce Digital Earth concepts and latest developments, and explore how these ideas could be applied in classrooms. It provided examples of interactive maps, mobile apps, and visualization tools related to Digital Earth. It also discussed future directions for Digital Earth, such as big data analytics, gamification, smart cities/sensors, and citizens as producers of geospatial data. Attendees were encouraged to consider new opportunities for innovative learning with these emerging Digital Earth technologies and applications.

1. Digital Earth … for
innovative learning
European Association of
Geographers
Karl Donert, President EUROGEO,
Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu
eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk

2. Workshop Aims
• Introduce Digital Earth
• Explore DE latest developments
• Take DE ideas back to your classroom
• Introduce future DE perspectives
• Workshop http://tinyurl.com/de-ga2015
• Feedback http://tinyurl.com/de-ga2015-2

3. EUROGEO
• European Association of Geographers
• International NGO – established 1979 by the European
Commission to network geographers
• A professional association for geographers, geo- scientists
and geography teachers

4. EUROGEO
• EUROGEO at the Council of Europe (since 1983)
• Participatory status
– Lobbying in the European Parliament
– Respond to statements and policy proposals (Rio + 20)
– Attendance at major meetings and events (WFD)

5. EUROGEO: digital earth projects
• Networking: Digital-earth.eu
• Tools: I-Use Statistics
• Training: iGuess & iGuess2
• Concepts: Spatial Citizenship
• Careers: GeoSkills Plus
• Awareness: SeaChange

6. http://www.schoolonthecloud.eu

7. Digital Earth
Gore A (1992; 1998), The Digital Earth: Understanding Our Planet

8. Digital Earth
Developing rapidly and pervasively

10. Digital Earth provides crucial links between
nature and society
Nature: Physical equations
Describe processes
Society: Decisions on how to
Use the Earth´s resources

11. UN General Assembly Adopts
First Geospatial Resolution
• Global Geodetic Reference Frame for
Sustainable Development
• Value of ground-based observations and
remote satellite sensing when tracking
changes in populations, ice caps, oceans and
the atmosphere over time.
• For sustainable development policymaking,
climate change monitoring and natural disaster
management

12. Data Collection Everywhere

13. Digital Earth Workshop
• Visualisations
• Interactive Maps
• Apps & Tools
• Learning & Teaching
• Digital Earth in the UK
• Other News
• What next?
• Publications

14. Visualisations
360 degree cities http://t.co/SbcTXf6g15

15. Interactive Map: California Drought
California Drought http://cida.usgs.gov/ca_drought/

16. Interactive Map: Drones
Travel the World Through the Lenses of Drones
http://www.travelbydrone.com/

17. Interactive maps
• Cluster Observatory: European data
http://clusterobservatory.eu
• Met Office Storm Tracker
http://t.co/4ZX3EOYNFt
• Unlock Landsat with ArcGIS
http://t.co/IRdAJyrMrT
• Street View Now Has Sound
http://t.co/nU7LtXXNRh

18. Mobile Apps
Fieldtrip app http://t.co/lalVjBlFre

19. Future: Big Data era new learning
opportunitiesuser behaviour,
browsing habits,
social networking …
…keyword use…
… location, destinations…
…personalisation…
…sensor data
and metrics…
…opportunities to move
beyond traditional
learning and into analytics

20. Workshop Aims
• Introduce Digital Earth
• Explore DE latest developments
• Take DE ideas back to your classroom
• Consider what’s next in Digital Earth
• Workshop http://tinyurl.com/de-ga2015
• Feedback http://tinyurl.com/de-ga2015-2

21. Digital Earth Workshop
http://tinyurl.com/de-ga2015

22. http://tinyurl.com/de-ga2015-2
Digital Earth Feedback

23. §

26. The Future: Gamification
The Future: Spatial Gamification http://tinyurl.com/p63avoj

27. Future: Mapping inside the earth
Mapping the inside of the earth http://t.co/aLOs4Fm0Mj

28. Citizens as prosumers

29. Future: Wearable sensors
Wearable sensors http://t.co/WL1gru53QK

30. Future: Smart cities, smart sensors

31. Learning, unlearning, re-learning
“The illiterate of the 21st century,” wrote Alvin
Toffler, “will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn.”
Visit Joseph Kerski’s blog, http://t.co/Y7GScykOxT

32. http://www.eurogeography.eu
@Digitaleartheu
Digital-earth.eu on Facebook
Digital-earth.eu on LinkedIn
kdonert@yahoo.com