Earth science framework research based on the digital earth platform

This paper explains the basic points of earth science research, reviews the notion of digital earth and suggests the basic concept of digital earth platform. Taking the theory of digital earth as an essence point and the framework of digital earth platform as a main clue, we mainly discuss: the basic theories of digital earth platform, a comparatively flawless model of earth science research framework based on the digital earth platform. The discussing issues involves the unified coordinate projecting, data updating, data transferring, data processing and analyzing and data displaying and a series of researches relating to energy sources, eco-system and disasters monitoring and forecasting with a combination of the suggested model of earth science research framework.