ESIP
Federation
The Earth Science
Information Partners (ESIP) Federation brings together government agencies,
universities, nonprofit organizations, and businesses in an effort to
make Earth Science information available to a broader community. The objective
of the Federation is to evolve methods that make Earth science data easy
to preserve, locate, access and use for all beneficial applications, including:
research, education, commercial development, agriculture, land management,
environmental monitoring, policy making, and many other applications.
This project received
support from the Standing
Committee on Community Engagement (SCCE).
The ESIP Federation has established a Digital Earth Cluster: To help make the ESIP Federation data accessible to the widest possible audiences (e.g. high school students, interdisciplinary researchers, general public) To help make Federation data "overlayable" with other data (including non-ESIP data) To disseminate new Digital Earth developments and opportunities to Federation members (e.g. Web Mapping Testbed 2.0 enhancements; funding opportunities) To develop Federation Digital Earth prototypes (possibly in conjunction with the NASA or Alpha Version Digital Earth prototypes).
Digital
Earth
Digital
Earth will be a virtual
representation of our planet that enables a person to explore and interact
with the vast amounts of natural and cultural information gathered about
the Earth.
(Consensus definition adopted at the Second Interagency Digital Earth
Workshop, held 1999 September 22-23 at University of Maryland.)
