The summit will be organized by the Society for Geoinformatics (GfGI) and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) together with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ), and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The Summit will bring together leading scientists from Geoinformatics and Global Change research and will foster the exchange of ideas, cooperation between so-far disjoint scientific fields and provide time for in-depth discussion. Invited key note speakers will cover relevant topics in Geoinformatics, Global Change research, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Digital Earth initiatives, and Earth Observation activities as well as the interaction between these fields.

Key Speakers

• Alessandro Annoni (Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability , European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy)
• Gabriel del Barrio (Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Almeria, Spain)
• Michael F. Goodchild (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
• Joachim Hill (Remote Sensing Department, University of Trier, GER)
• Mojib Latif (Maritime Meteorology, IFM-Geomar, University of Kiel, GER)
• Mark Mulligan (Department of Geography, King's College London, UK)
• Ndegwa Ndiang'ui (United Nations, Committee on Science and Technology)
• Siegfried Schubert (Global Modeling & Assimilation Office, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA)
• Detlef Stammer (Center for Marine and Climate Research, University of Hamburg, GER)

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