Digital Earth as an integrating architecture for early warning and disaster risk governance

International Journal of Digital Earth, Volume 19, Issue 2 (2026)
Konečný, M., Simpson, R., Bandrova, T., Kremers, H., Crawford, K., & Shen, J.

“This paper asks how a federated Digital Earth architecture can connect technical capability, cartographic communication and institutional responsibility in early warning and disaster risk governance.

A documented three-pass procedure maps the twelve frameworks of the 2025 ISDE Strategic Vision against operational requirements drawn from cartographic research, interoperability theory and disaster governance practice.

The resulting architecture has eight functions. Seven carry evidence from observation and sensing through to decision and coordinated action, with progressive cartography serving as the two-way interface between evidence and those who must act. The eighth, covering provenance, ethics and governance, applies across all the others.

The principal contribution is a specification of what each handover between functions must preserve, including temporal validity and decision provenance.”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2026.2757400

Int. J. Digital Earth
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tjde20

ISDE – International Society for Digital Earth
https://www.digitalearth-isde.org/