Imagine having a high-tech digital mirror of the ocean that shows exactly what is happening underwater in real-time. It takes old, forgotten data and combines it with new sensor readings to create a 4D map of marine life. This helps us understand how to bring fish populations back to life and protect the sea from climate change.
Marine data is often 'sleeping' in disconnected repositories or arrives in incompatible formats, making it impossible for businesses and policymakers to accurately monitor fishery restoration and climate impact.
A Digital Twin system including data harmonization tools (PUCK), auto-correction pipelines, and standardized libraries for 4D ecological monitoring.
If you are a management firm dealing with declining fish stocks — this project developed a Digital Twin that uses historical and real-time data to identify the best areas for restoration. This allows for more precise regulation of human activities to ensure long-term profitability.
If you are a sensor manufacturer dealing with fragmented data formats — this project developed standardization tools like PUCK that harmonize data from different physical and chemical sensors. This makes your hardware more compatible with international monitoring platforms.
If you are a consultancy dealing with unreliable environmental impact reports — this project developed auto-correction and validation pipelines to ensure data trustfulness. This provides a gold standard for guidelines given to policymakers and socioeconomic sectors.
Based on available project data, the tools and methodologies are intended to be open source for researchers and the public.
The project plans to conduct several pilot sea-basin scale monitoring tests to demonstrate the tools in real-world environments.
The objective explicitly states that the tools, methodologies, and implementations will be made open source.
It integrates by unifying libraries and resources such as FanthomNet or Emodnet and using standardization tools like PUCK.
The project is active from 2024-03-01 to 2028-02-29.
The consortium is highly balanced for commercial translation, featuring an industry ratio of 44% with 8 industrial partners, all of whom are SMEs. With 18 partners across 10 countries, the project combines the academic rigor of 5 universities and 5 research centers with the agility of small businesses, ensuring the resulting open-source tools are practical for market use.
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