Destination Earth Core Service Platform Use Cases: A Collaborative approach for DestinE validation and evolution

DestinE is the EC’s ambitious initiative to develop a digital twin of the Earth’s system to enable users to monitor and simulate natural and human activities to support environmental policies and decision-making processes at European and global scales, including the green transition of the European Union, aligning with the goals set out in the EC’s Green Deal and Digital Strategy.

RHEA is leading the Destination Earth Use Cases project consortium to select a set of use cases to be developed and integrated within DESP, which will act as a gateway to the other DestinE components, namely the Destination Earth Data Lake, led by EUMETSAT, and the Digital Twins and Engine, which are the responsibility of ECMWF. This use cases will be developed using an Agile framework and a co-design approach with their reference community to enable a validation of the DestinE infrastructure and its evolution.

Five projects started in November 2023:

• Global Fish Track System (GFTS), whose objective is to develop a fully functional Decision Support Tool for establishing essential fish habitat conservation areas under different scenarios.
• DestinE Sea Ice Decision Enhancement (DESIDE), which aims to meet the needs of policy and decision makers who require information on the past, current, and forecasted sea ice and other relevant conditions for operational purposes in the Baltic Sea, European Arctic Ocean, and the rest of the polar regions.
• CITINEXUS, which is modelling environmental, social, and economic impacts of interventions in road networks, mobility, and urban fabric, using High Frequency Location Based data and evaluating baseline conditions for human mobility, including key performance indicators like air quality, population distribution, public health, and service accessibility.
• DestinE Renewable Energy (DRE), which aims to support evidence-based policy-making in the transition towards green energy by integrating new decision-making tools for renewable energy source (RES) producers.
• UrbanSquare project, which is developing a tool to assess the urban climate risks, namely: Urban heat, flooding forecast, storm surges, sea level rise, air pollution, deterioration of infrastructure and increased demand on resources.

The presentation will include and overview of each selected project as well as a list of opportunities to contribute to DestinE in the future.