Title:
Integrated digital framework for comprehensive maritime data and information services (ILIAD)
Total Duration:
36 months - Start: 1 Feb 2022 / End: 31 Jan 2025
Description and main objectives:
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 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. The combination of geovisualisation, immersive visualisation and virtual or augmented reality allows users to explore, synthesize, present, and analyze the underlying geospatial data in an interactive manner, SeaDataNet guidelines and ontologies and the standard style-layered descriptor provided by the Open Geospatial Consortium
Main outputs:
- ILIAD will provide the Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) as an interactive framework based on digital technologies compatible with Destination Earth, including ocean simulators based on high-resolution numerical ocean models, available ocean observation data, as well as digital analysis toolboxes that allow to configure the ocean simulators for what-if scenarios.
- ILIAD DTO will bring together EU infrastructures related to data management, cloud computing and information and environmental monitoring services via marine observations.
- It will create and implement a DTO framework, which will function as a domain specific precursor of the Destination Earth DTO.
- It will demonstrate the value of the DTO approach through engaging pilots for a variety of stakeholders.
- It will assemble a broad and diverse user community of existing and new users who will use the project’s innovative technological solutions to address their challenges. Exemplary showcases and pilot demonstrators will show impact and promote user uptake.
- It will provide tailored training to stakeholders to allow them benefiting of the use and managing of the above.
Geographical scope and countries involved:
The European Seas all riparian countries, including the Mediterranean Sea.
Countries: DE, DZ, EG, ES, FR, GR, IL, IT, MA, NL, PT, TR, TN, UK, RO, BG, NO, IE, AM, PL, BE.
Partners:
The project, managed by INTRASOFT International, involves 56 partners, including SPA/RAC.
Funders:
European Research Executive Agency (REA) through EU Horizon 2020
Learn more:
https://ocean-twin.eu