Iliad, Digital Twin of the Ocean
Along with 56 partners from 18 countries, HUB Ocean is part of the Iliad Consortium who will develop and launch a Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) that will provide highly accurate predictions of future developments at global seas.
The ILIAD consortium, which includes 56 international partners, will develop virtual representations of the sea that will integrate and extend existing EU earth observing, modelling digital infrastructures and computing facilities to provide highly accurate predictions of future developments. HUB Ocean has a central role in the Iliad project, supporting the Digital Ocean Twin through the Ocean Data Platform.
In January 2022, the European Union (EU) granted the ILIAD Consortium €17 million to develop and launch a Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) that will provide highly accurate predictions of future developments at global seas.
The ILIAD Project, which is comprised of 56 partners from 18 different countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, has been awarded funding as part of the EU the €1 billion European Green Deal.
ILIAD will develop virtual models designed to accurately reflect changes and processes accruing at the ocean. ILIAD will commercialise an interoperable, data-intensive, and cost-effective model, capitalising on the explosion of new data provided by many different earth sources, and modern computing infrastructure including the Internet of Things, social networking, Big Data, cloud computing and more.
The ILIAD consortium, which has received funding through the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, will combine high-resolution modelling with real-time sensing of ocean parameters, advanced algorithms for forecasting of spatio-temporal events and pattern recognition. The virtual representations will consist of several real-time to near-real-time digital replicas of the ocean.
ILIAD will also create a marketplace to distribute apps, plug-ins, interfaces, raw data, citizen science data, synthesised information and value-added services in combination with the ILIAD DTO.
The project partners include industrial companies, end users, academic institutions, research and technology developers and private firms.
You can read more about Iliad - Digital Twin of the Ocean and HUB Ocean’s role here.