Project description
A data-intensive, cost-effective Digital Twin of the Ocean
A digital twin of the ocean allows experts to develop what-if scenarios, analysing the impact of measures to prevent and adapt to climate change. Integrating various data sources is key to formulating predictions of future developments in marine social-ecological systems. The EU-funded ILIAD project creates an interoperable, data-intensive, and cost-effective Digital Twin of the Ocean contributing to the implementation of the European Green Deal. It capitalises on the increasing wealth of data and advanced computing infrastructures by combining these diverse data in a semantically rich and data-agnostic approach allowing simultaneous communication with real-world systems and models. ILIAD will also create a marketplace to distribute apps, plug-ins, interfaces, raw data, citizen science data, synthesised information and value-added services.
Objective
ILIAD builds on the assets resulting from two decades of investments in policies and infrastructures for the blue economy and aims at establishing an interoperable, data-intensive, and cost-effective Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO). It capitalizes on the explosion of new data provided by many different earth sources, advanced computing infrastructures (cloud computing, HPC, Internet of Things, Big Data, social networking, and more) in an inclusive, virtual/augmented, and engaging fashion to address all Earth Data challenges. It will contribute towards a sustainable ocean economy as defined by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ocean, a hub for global, multistakeholder co-operation.
The ILIAD DTO will fuse a large volume of diverse data, in a semantically rich and data agnostic approach to enable simultaneous communication with real world systems and models. Ontologies and a standard style-layered descriptor will facilitate semantic information and intuitive discovery of underlying information and knowledge to provide a seamless experience. The combination of geovisualisation, immersive visualization and virtual or augmented reality allows users to explore, synthesize, present, and analyze the underlying geospatial data in an interactive manner.
The enabling technology of the ILIAD DTO will contribute to the implementation of the EU?s Green Deal and Digital Strategy and to the achievement of the UN Ocean Decade's outcomes and Sustainable Development Goals. To realize its potential, ILIAD DTO will follow the System of Systems approach, integrating all existing EU Earth Observing and Modelling Digital Infrastructures and Facilities
To promote additional applications through ILIAD DTO, the partners will create the ILIAD Marketplace. Like an app store, providers will use the ILIAD Marketplace to distribute apps, plug-ins, interfaces, raw data, citizen science data, synthesized information, and value-adding services derived from the ILIAD DTO.
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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1253 Luxembourg
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1350-352 LISBOA
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75008 Paris
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2740-278 Porto Salvo
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6706054 Tel Aviv
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6822 GM Arnhem
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44121 Ferrara
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28006 Madrid
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032733 Bucuresti
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92190 MEUDON
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00187 Roma
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28760 Tres Cantos (Madrid)
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08193 Bellaterra
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46024 Valencia
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32000 Al Hoceima
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1574 Sofia
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1080 Tunis
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11500 El Puerto De Santa Maria Cadiz
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6777116 Tel Aviv
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00144 Roma
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691 00 KOMOTINI
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00185 Roma
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32000 Haifa
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4200 465 Porto
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7052 Trondheim
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7034 Trondheim
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31905 Haifa
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08225 Terrassa
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75015 PARIS 15
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4817 JT Breda
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70013 Irakleio
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T12 YN60 Cork
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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12616 Tallinn
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900581 Constanta
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1784 Sofia
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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80686 Munchen
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0019 Yerevan
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9010 Varna
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9820 Merelbeke
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7491 Trondheim
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75016 Paris
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08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
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61 704 Poznan
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35200 Telde
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75012 Paris
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1013 EL MENZAH
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81675 Munchen
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LL74 8SG Tyn Y Gongl
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2201 DZ Noordwijk
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OX2 7DE Oxford
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3001 Leuven
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1366 Lysaker
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92545 Jerusalem
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92103 Jerusalem
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