Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6953-8381

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Information Science, Geosciences, (multidisciplinary), 2.2 ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC, INFORMATION ENGINEERING

Publication Details

Published in: IEEE Access

Publisher: IEEE

Electronic ISSN: 2169-3536

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3478813

Abstract

Digital Earth (DE), a technology offering real-time visualisation of Earth's processes, has shown promising results in aiding decision-making for a sustainable world, raising awareness about individual impacts on our planet, and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) agenda. However, both DE and SDGs face a common obstacle: Data Quality (DQ). This review investigates the challenge of DQ in the context of DE for SDGs and explores how IoT can address this challenge and extend the reach of DE to support SDGs. Furthermore, the study discusses three core aspects; first, the potential of IoT as a data source that supplements satellite data for DE for SDGs, second, the DQ challenge that is specific to an IoT-enabled DE for SDGs illustrated through scenarios identified from the literature, and third, solutions and perspectives that address the DQ challenge. This study underscores the necessity of addressing the DQ challenge and discusses some potential solutions to foster effective interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge sharing, and data reusability. The study provides a viewpoint for understanding and addressing the DQ challenge for an IoT-enabled DE for SDGs to support the UN SDGs agenda for a sustainable world by 2030.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3478813

Funder

Science Foundation Ireland

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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