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positioning for ‘smart’ ships which will be based on its ‘earth or “digital twins”. A digital twin is an AI copy of a ship, includ- observation platform’. This could create greater spatial and situ- ing its systems, that synthesises the information available about ational awareness for those operating the vessel remotely. It will the ship in a hologram. “It allows any aspect of an asset to be also allow satellites to capture and share the data from a num- explored through a digital interface,” said Tenovu