About ISDE Activities

In line with its mission ISDE convenes international symposia, summits, and other meetings, with lectures, communications, discussions and, as appropriate, tutorials,  exhibitions, technical visits and social events.

Since 1999, ISDE's two series of international academic conferences - the International Symposium on Digital Earth and the Digital Earth Summit have been held in different countries worldwide. Up to now, 14 symposia and 9 summits with different and relevant topics have been organized in 16 different countries, attracting more than 10,000 participants. 

ISDE organized workshops on Digital Earth Vision towards 2020 and towards 2030 respectively in 2011 and 2020, which attracted quite a few scientists in the field of Digital Earth to contribute their thoughts and perspectives. ISDE working groups also organized workshops in specific research fields, e.g. Workshop on Data Governance and AI Ethics.

Other ISDE conferences include the China Digital Earth Conferences, Youth Innovation Forums on Digital Earth, the “Belt and Road” Forum on Digital Earth, ISDE International Lectures and Lecture on the Digital Earth Youth Innovation series, academic salons, etc.

These academic events have attracted tens of thousands of scholars, government officials and business people from over 70 countries and regions worldwide, and become world-known academic events in the field of Digital Earth. These series activities have laid a solid foundation for experts from science, enterprise, education and government domains to enrich theories, technologies and applications in light of the progress of Digital Earth and its vision perspective.