Got passed the URL for this journal yesterday and I have been reading the articles for the last day. It contains some very well written articles on the use of Digital Earth’s in various ways. The International Journal of Digital Earth is the journal of the International Society For Digital Earth (ISDE) and this is the first issue of the Journal.

Here are the topics covered in this issue:

Review Articles

Evolution and implementation of the Digital Earth vision, technology and society
Author: T. W. Foresman

Geoinformatics and digital earth initiatives: a German perspective
Author: M. Ehlers

Research Articles

The use cases of digital earth
Author: M. F. Goodchild

Digital Earth in support of global change research
Authors: C. Shupeng; J. van Genderen

Virtual Australia: its key elements – know, think, communicate
Authors: B. Thompson; T. O. Chan; R. Slee; P. Kinne; A. Jahshan; P. Woodgate; I. Bishop; D. McKenzie

Reality-based generation of virtual environments for digital earth
Author: A. Gruen

Virtual representations of antique globes – new ways of touching the untouchable
Authors: F. Hruby; A. Riedl; H. Tomberger

Monitoring the source of trans-national dust storms in north east Asia
Authors: R. Tsolmon; L. Ochirkhuyag; T. Sternberg

Water resource applications with RADARSAT-2 – a preview
Authors: B. Brisco; R. Touzi; J. J. van der Sanden; F. Charbonneau; T. J. Pultz; M. D’Iorio

Letters

3D visualisations in simulations of future land use: exploring the possibilities of new, standard visualisation tools
Authors: J. Rodríguez Lloret; N. Omtzigt; E. Koomen; F. S. de Blois

Reclamation areas and their development studied by vegetation indices
Author: L. Halounová

Original Articles

Report on the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth
Author: T. W. Foresman

First Announcement and Call for Papers

Digital Earth Summit on Geoinformatics: Tools for Global Change Research

One thing I noticed with the few articles I have read so far, the do not consider Google Earth to be a very good medium for data, and they considered NASA WorldWind and ArcGIS Explorer to be Digital Globes that are more what the guidelines recommend.

Two articles of interest that I have read so far are “Evolution and implementation of the Digital Earth vision, technology and society” and “The use cases of digital earth”, these two articles have useful information for anyone wanting to explain about digital globes and if/why they may be of use for a project.