GI_Forum 2021, Volume 9, Issue 1

“GI_Forum” publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and ultimately contribute to the creation of an informed GISociety. Submissions concentrate on innovation in education, science, methodology and technologies in the spatial domain. “GI_Forum” implements the policy of open access publication (CC-BY-ND-License) after a double-blind peer review process through a highly international team of established scientists for quality assurance. Special emphasis is put on actively supporting young scientists through formative reviews of their submissions. The 2021-1 Issue is the Special Issue on “Digital Earth for Sustainable Society”. It comprises work of researchers from various research areas who presented their contributions to the creation of the Digital Earth society at the International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE12, https://digitalearth2021.org/ ) from 06-08 July 2021 hosted by the University of Salzburg and its Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS. This Special Issue includes the 28 best papers in the category “Best practice papers for Sustainable Development Goals” guest edited by Josef Strobl, Thomas Blaschke and Julia Wegmayr.