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Intelligent systems for geosciences: an essential research agenda

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A research agenda for intelligent systems that will result in fundamental new capabilities for understanding the Earth system.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 1
        January 2019
        109 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3301004
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