Building a highly accurate digital replica
of the Earth
Destination Earth is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to develop a highly accurate digital model of the Earth to monitor and simulate natural phenomena, hazards and the related human activities.
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DestinE Components
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DestinE Platform
Entry point to DestinE
The DestinE Platform is the cloud-based entry point to DestinE, providing provides users, applications and service providers with direct access to the data and functionalities from the Digital Twin Engine and the Data Lake.Diverse community of users
The platform integrates and operates an open ecosystem of services in an open and secure cloud environment to support DestinE data exploitation, with the aim to meet the needs of a large and diverse community, that includes citizens, scientists and academics, commercial entities, and policy makers.External services onboarding
The DestinE Platform additionally provides onboarding support for integrating external services and resources, making the ecosystem flexible, scalable, and easily adapted to the community needs. -
Digital Twins and Digital Twin Engine
Climate and weather simulations powered by extreme scale computing
The Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate Adaptation DT) and the Weather-Induced Extremes Digital Twin (Extremes DT), provide high quality simulations integrating Earth system information and the sectors most impacted by climate change and extreme weather events, exploring new forms of interactivity. The continuous component of the Extremes DT will provide global kilometre (km) – scale simulation capabilities to assess and predict environmental extremes within a time span of a few days. Both DTs include the impact sector elements to better respond to its users’ needs. Powering the DTs, the Digital Twin Engine is the software infrastructure needed for extreme-scale simulations and data fusion, data handling and machine learning, adapted to exploit the capabilities of the EuroHPC supercomputers. It will also provide a flexible environment to operate the digital twins and trial on demand configurations adapted to specific applications. -
Destination Earth Data Lake
The DestinE Data Lake is an essential component that references and provides seamless access to DestinE Digital Twins data and large number of external data spaces. The Data Lake supports near-data processing to maximise throughput and service scalability and implements big data distributed workflows. The DestinE Data Lake provides a harmonisation of data access, regardless of data type and location. The Data Lake stores DestinE Digital Twins data and facilitates the access to massive amounts of data from ECMWF, ESA and EUMETSAT data stores as well as EU Copernicus data, in-situ and European statistical data. In addition to data discovery and access, the Data Lake offers Big Data processing services to work efficiently with DestinE data.
Find out more about how to get involved in shaping the future of DestinE, by contributing to news and events, and by taking part in all the activities that support the implementation of this initiative.
Consortium partners
The Serco-led consortium brings together leading European providers to deliver an open and scalable solution
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Serco
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The international provider of services to governments and one of the leading space industry and services companies, with over 40 years’ experience in supporting the space sector.
OVHcloud
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A global player and the leading European cloud provider, delivering public and private cloud products, shared hosting and dedicated server solutions in 140 countries worldwide.
Alia Space
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Providing software solutions for operations and engineering projects in the space sector since 2003.
B-Open
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B-Open develops software solutions with focus on environmental monitoring, remote sensing applications, geo-spatial data management and web publication.
CGI
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A global end-to-end IT and service integrator and among the largest IT and business consulting services firms.
Deimos
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A European technology group providing advanced technologies in Space, Defense, Transports, Aeronautics, Maritime, Telecommunications and Digital Intelligence.
Exprivia
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An international ICT specialist and a well-known player in Earth Observation and environment data.
FlyPix AI
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FlyPix AI provides AI-enabled geospatial solutions to extract geo-referenced insights from satellite and aerial imagery.
GAEL Systems
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An innovative company developing software solutions for the space industry, to access and disseminate Earth observation data products and ensure their integrity, from simple desktop applications to cloud infrastructures.
GeoVille
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A globally operating company, leading projects related to Earth observation data applications for large governmental and institutional organisations.
MEEO
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Industrial partner for space-based data algorithm and services, providing support to develop, implement and uptake Earth Observation data innovations.
Thales Alenia Space
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One of the major Space integrators in Europe, delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures.