NCEO-Leicester win ESA contract to develop a “Digital Twin Earth Precursor”
Dr Robert Parker, part of the National Centre for Earth Observation and the School of Physics and Astronomy, has been successful with a €450k proposal to the European Space Agency to develop a Digital Twin Earth Precursor, an interactive replica of our planet in the digital domain. Rob will act as the Science Lead for the project, led by industrial partners at Telespazio Vega UK and including NCEO colleagues at the University of Reading and the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis.
The innovative Climate Explorer will be built on existing advanced Earth System Models, processed using High Performance Computing infrastructure and assimilating state-of-the-art Earth Observation data to produce optimised climate scenario model simulations and ultimately delivered via Machine Learning emulation to the end user through a cloud-based Interactive Data Portal.
The team will work closely with a variety of stakeholders and the proposed system will enable decision makers without expert technical knowledge to generate and visualise, in real-time, decision relevant information relating to regionalised impacts of climate change.
An e-Poster video describing the project for ESA Phi-Week is available here:
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