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‘Very high precision’ digital model will need supercomputers, satellites and artificial intelligence
The European Commission wants to capitalise on the EU’s deluge of high-quality Earth observation data by building a digital model of the planet.
“This is the planet Earth concept I intend to launch to gather European scientists and European excellence [and] develop a very high precision digital model of the Earth,” internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said in a statement for the 12th European Space Conference in Brussels on 22 January.
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