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From digital Earth to smart Earth

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This article will analyze the achievements of the digital Earth concept and further introduce two key technologies, the internet of things and cloud computing. Both these technologies are accelerating the development of digital Earth toward a new concept—smart Earth. The objective of this article is to discuss the architecture, infrastructure, and typical applications for smart Earth and to elaborate on trends of the movement from digital Earth to smart Earth.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB731801), the National High-tech R & D Program of China (2009AA121404), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61172174), the Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Digital Oceanic Science and Technology (KLDO201307), and Ten Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Projects of Hubei Province.

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  1. School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China

    Deren Li & Yuan Yao

  2. State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China

    Deren Li & Zhenfeng Shao

  3. Department of Geography, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14262, USA

    Le Wang

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Li, D., Yao, Y., Shao, Z. et al. From digital Earth to smart Earth. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 722–733 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-013-0100-x

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