Conference information

The 3rd Taipei International Conference on Digital Earth, organized by the National Department of the Interior, National Applied Research Laboratories and Chinese Culture University (CCU) was held in June 2005 at CCU on Yangmingshan, near Taipei, Taiwan. In order to implement the idea of Digital Earth and to reach the goal of substantial development of the Earth’s resources, the main theme of the conference was to cultivate spatial information technology in conjunction with the development of National Land Information. Another focus was on FORMOSAT-2 satellite technological development and spatial information technology in national land development and application in various fields. The conference was a great success, stimulating much useful discussion and exchange of opinions.

Recently, over development of the Earth’s resources has resulted in abnormal weather patterns, with increased frequency and scale of typhoons and hurricanes, earthquakes and Tsunami causing great human and financial losses.

In Taiwan, mountain slope-land has been over-utilized, and periods of heavy rainfall in such areas regularly cause landslides, mudflows, subsidence, flooding and the silting-up of reservoirs. In order to continue discussion issues raised during the first three conferences on Digital Earth, and to open new discussions regarding issues such as satellite image mapping of Taiwan’s land and marine territory, national land and marine conservation, and slope-land and coastal environment protection, we are holding the 4th Taipei International Conference on Digital Earth (2006 Geoinformation Taipei) at CCU on Yang-ming shan in Taipei from May 25th to 26th, 2006.

The main theme of this conference will be "Living in Harmony with Mother Nature- prospecting for Geoinformation". Apart from discussion issues mentioned above, we will present a series of workshops and exhibitions. We are hoping, through this conference, to discuss solutions to enable us to live in better harmony with our Earth and substantially manage its resources.