Destination Earth needs Data Spaces
Michael Schick – Principal Engineer

EUMETSAT
Data Spaces Symposium, Darmstadtium, 12-14 March 2024

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Destination EarthFlagship initiative of the European Commission to develop
a digital replica of our planet to respond and adapt to climatechange and extreme events
DestinE is a joint undertaking in strategic partnership with EuroHPC• Establishes bespoke cutting-edge simulation capabilities• Provides Earth-system information at scales where the impactsof extreme events and climate change are felt

• Fosters an innovative and thriving AI-enabled digital ecosystem• DestinE Data Space is part of European Green Deal Data Spaces

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Destination Earth: Roadmap•••

CAs for Phase II signed by
the 3 implementing
entities
2nd Destination EarthUser ExchangeRound of reach-out
activities to potential
DestinE users•

Finalising the delivery of Phase I•

Preparation for transition to Phase II•

Launch event

End 2023

Q1/Q2 2024

End of Phase I

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•Phase II activities•Structure user engagement
and feedback•

AI developments•

Calibration of infrastructure,provided services and tools

Q3-Q4 2024

Beginning of Phase II3

What-If Scenarios
Simulate scenarios and tailor INFORMATION
To optimise the use of renewable energies

How will an approaching storm
affect the renewable energy
production in my wind park, andhow does it effect others ?

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To explore possible future scenarios

How do heatwaves looklike in a +2° or +3° warmer worldand how should I adapt my city?

4DestinE
A novel information system – implemented by the 3EEs

DIGITAL
TWIN ENGINE

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A possible Journey with focus on the Data Lake

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DestinE Data Lake – connecting to Data Spaces
Self-standing component• Built from geographically distributed physical elements(central & edges)• Distributed services – seamless access• Implemented via European Industry

Discovery & Data Access•••

Harmonisation of data access (HDA) to simplify data
discovery & access
External federated data spaces
Digital Twin data (ECMWF):••

Extreme Weather and Climate Change Adaptation

DestinE User generated dataBig Data Processing••
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Processing near data including distributed computing &workflows
Supports & enables AI/ML applications
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DestinE Data Portfolio• Evolving Data Portfolio••

User influenced and agreed with EC
Managed and Controlled by a DestinE Joint Board• Digital Twins Data••

Climate Change Adaptation
Extreme Weather and Geo hazards• Federated datasets•••••

Contributing missions (EUMETSAT, ESA, ECMWF)
Copernicus Satellites & Services dataEurostat
ISIMIPIAGOS• Harmonized APIs: some STAC compliant

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DestinE Data Portfolio
DT on Weatherinduced Extremes
Temporal resolution: 15 minutes to 1 hourTime horizon: 4-7 days forecast
Horizontal resolution: 4.4/2.8/1.4 km
Number of instances: 1DT on Climate
Adaptation

Federated Data

Earth Observation Data
Directly accessible

Loosely coupled Data Spaces

Temporal resolution: 1 hour to monthly
Time horizon:Multi-decadal
Horizontal resolution: 9/4.4/2.8 km
Number of instances: 2-3 models x 70 years(control, historical, future years)

OutOutOut•

Fresh Data Pool

130 fields

130 fields

100 datasets~ 160 datasets

11.4 GiB per field

62 TiB per field+/-GiB per files+/-GiB per files

1.45 TiB daily

7.87 PiB
annually>20 PiB>20 PiB

capabilities and services for theassessment and prediction ofenvironmental extremes•

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capabilities and services in supportof climate change adaptation
policies and mitigation scenariotesting9

DestinE + common European DS + SIMPLSIMPL is the smart middleware that will enable cloud-to-edge federations and support all major data initiatives fundedby the European Commission, such as the common European data spaces and DestinE.
•Providing an open-source framework that makes it easier and more efficient to build, customize, and deploy data spaces•Covering a broad range of cases from sectoral data spaces (e.g. Agriculture, Genomics, Energy, Mobility) to Destination
Earth, and from AI-on-demand to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

•SIMPL will ensure that data sources and their infrastructures can be seamlessly interconnected and made interoperable.
SIM
PL

Industrial
data cloud SIM
PL

Data exchange
Metadata andAccess andAPI
discovery
usage control
Data usage
Provenance andIdentity
Trustedaccounting
traceability
management
exchange

SIM
PL

Citizens

IoT
SIM
PL data cloudSIM
PL

Industries

SMEs
SIM
PL

SIM

Open PL
data source

ResearchSIM
PL

DataIntermediarySIM
PL

Public Org.

More info and preparatory work available at: Simpl: cloud-to-edge federations and data spaces made simple
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Data Spaces Considerations
Several initiatives on connecting Data Spaces• DestinE, EOSC, CDSE, WEkEO, EOSC…..
• GREAT => Green Deal Data Spaces

PangeoDestination Earth• SIMPL => Smart Middleware Platformfrom “FAIR/O”•Finable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable /open license

towards “FIRST”•Findable, Interoperable, Reusable, Streamable, Transformable

Loosely coupled Data Spaces (federated vs monolithic)
Process near data and Transform & Stream
only what is needed !
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SIMPL - Smart Middleware Platform• Simpl-Open – middleware itself• Simpl-Labs – Infrastructure & test beds
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AI Act + AI factories and Data Spaces• EU Commission proposes AI factories (EU AI Act – 12/2023)• Simplified access to AI supercomputers (HPCs)• Large-scale Model training hand in hand with supercomputers• GPUs need to be fed efficiently with AI ready data to optimize usage• Efficient access to Data Spaces required !!

• AI ready data: facilitate preparation of data to be usable for AI(fuse, tailor & harmonise)o Geo-referencing and sub-setting, Resampling, Rearranging and reshaping, Normalisation,
Dimensionality reduction, Data labelling

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Thank you!
www.destination-earth.com

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