Topics:

A: Big Data and Digital Earth

• Big Data and Earth Observation

• Large scale analytics for spatio-temporal data

• VGI and Crowd-scouring techniques

• Spatial online analytical processing

• Visualization and visual analytics

• Mining Location-based Social Networks

• Infrastructures and Services for Big Data

• Retrieving and browsing of Linked Spatiotemporal Data

• Linked Data and Sensor Web Enablement

• Applications of big data analysis

B: Advances in Digital Earth

• Digital Earth theories, Frameworks, and data warehouse

• Digital Earth discrete models, virtual globe and simulation

• Data service Infrastructure for global change

• Earth observation and global environment change

• Web based Service for Digital Earth

• Virtual Geographical Environment

C: Digital Earth Technologies

• Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 3D Technologies for Digital Earth

• Visualization and Simulation for Digital Earth

• Lidartechnologies in Digital Earth

• Advanced spatial data processing and image fusion

• Integrated Technologies for Digital Earth

• Digital Earth Education, Ethics

D: Digital Earth Applications

• Digital Ocean

• Digital City

• Digital Forest

• Digital Agriculture

• Digital Heritage

• Digital Mountains

• Digital Disaster and Mitigation

• Digital Ecology and Land Cover/Land Use

• Global Change, Atmosphere and Ocean Study