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Digital earth: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Alessandro Annonia International Society for Digital Earth, Beijing, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Stefano Nativib National Research Council, Rome, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3185-8539
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Arzu Çöltekinc University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, School of Engineering, Institute of Interactive Technologies IIT, Brugg-Windisch, SwitzerlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-3509
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Cheryl Deshad Nathan Campus, Griffith University, Cities Research Institute, Brisbane, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4026-0830
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Eugene Eremchenkoe Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, RussiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7617
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Caroline M. Gevaertf Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente, Twente, The NetherlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3983-2459
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Gregory Giulianig Institute for Environmental Sciences/enviroSPACE, University of Geneva, Geneva, SwitzerlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-8865
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Min Chenh Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Ministry of Education of PRC), Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of ChinaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8922-8789
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Luis Perez-Morai Cities Research Institute, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
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Joseph Stroblj Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, AustriaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6234-9812
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Stephanie Tumamposk Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany;l Big Geospatial Data Management, Technical University of Munich, Munich, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8259-2756
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Pages 1022-1072 | Received 13 Dec 2022, Accepted 28 Feb 2023, Published online: 23 Mar 2023

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