The Geohazard DTC is one of the Early DTCs funded by ESA in 2024. While realizing the prototype, the deployment of a roadmap for a fully operational Geohazard DTC and its future integration in DestinE is one of the main objectives of GET-it. The year 2025 is devoted to define the roadmap that includes:
- Identify all relevant requirements and plan phases of development of a fully operational Geohazard DTC;
- Deploy a scientific and technical roadmap to leverage the DTC from demonstration to operational level;
- Plan the integration in the DestinE system.
The GET-it proposition for the future is to provide end users and stakeholders with a DTC based on increasingly more complex process models, representing an offline Digital Model that is validated against process data. The planned Geohazard DTC provides what-if scenarios and simulation during the geohazard evolution, fully integrated in the DestinE system. This means to represent a Digital Model which acquires and uses data in real-time, allowing the model to forecast future operations of the Physical System. The main requirements acquired during the experience of GET-it will lead to deploy the different phases to the realization of the operational DTC. It will lead towards a fully-fledged DTC for operations where real-time process data is used to make future predictions and calculate and execute control actions on the physical production process. In such a scenario the role of dense EO satellite acquisitions, up to near real-time EO data (thanks to the increasing number of nanosatellite constellations), will become increasingly relevant.
The pillars of the roadmap to DestinE is the integration in the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP) and the exploitation of the DestinE Data Lake.
The DESP is the flagship platform of the DestinE system, providing the users with a large number of tools, applications and services, based on an open, flexible, scalable and evolvable secure cloud-based architecture. The Geohazard DTC will be integrated in the DESP, and will make use of the novel digital technologies for providing access to cloud computing for simulation and prediction capabilities to its users, and data management services such as data analytics, visualisation, and monitoring.
The Data Lake brings together data from ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF as well as from Copernicus, with new data from the Digital Twins. The Geohazard DTC takes advantage of the Copernicus free and open access policy to EO data to implement data for operational monitoring of geohazards (e.g., volcanic activity), which has not been fully exploited yet. The GET-it project will address the joint analysis of data from many EO missions, generating a consistent growth in EO data use for geohazard monitoring making use of the DestinE Data Lake.
From one side, the Geohazard DTC will ease the capillary use of EO-based data (Copernicus and third-parties missions) related to the widest range of geohazard processes by the scientific community and stakeholders. From the other side, the DTC will leverage its building blocks and tools in the DESP. The users will experience an enhanced and effective performance with a fully integrated geohazard DTC, and will increase productivity and understanding of the geohazard phenomena for all purposes (scientific and decision making).
DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP) - https://destination-earth.eu/
DestinE Data Lake - https://destination-earth.eu/