ESA Digital Twin Earth Challenge 2021

Details

The ESA Digital Twin Earth Challenge pursues to stimulate entries that can help visualize, monitor and forecast natural, societal, economic and industrial activities and trends on the planet, paving the way for the carbon neutral economy and reinforcing Europe’s commitment to the Green Deal.

The Challenge

A digital twin is a virtual replica or a simulation of a physical system or system components. It aims to stimulate applications that can demonstrate how to derive granular and reliable information about past, present and future changes in the Earth system using Earth observation data in combination with state-of-the-art technologies such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Block chain, and Cloud Computing.

Key Areas

• Resilient Blue & Green Infrastructures
• Food Security
• Climate Adaptation
• Health and Well Being
• Pollution Monitoring and Prevention

Prizes

• A cash prize worth EUR 10,000.
• Possibility to access EUR 10,000 worth of commercial datasets from the Copernicus Contributing Missions in the Copernicus Data Warehouse
• Overall Winner will get EUR 10,000.

Selection Criteria

Innovation:

• Is the idea novelty with respect to the market offer?
• Does it improve current products or services?
• Does it deliver “breakthrough” innovation, combining new technologies, new trends, behaviors and new business models?

Copernicus Relevance:

• What is the role of Copernicus data?
• What is the connection to the existing Copernicus Services?

Technical Feasibility:

• Is it technically sound and implementable at scale?
• Is the engineering approach credible?

Market Viability Index:

•  Does the solution have real market potential?
•  How many users can be reached?

Impact Index:

• What is the significance and potentially transformative contribution to the Digital Twin Earth Concept?
• How well are the key policy priority areas addressed?

ESA Digital Twin Earth Challenge 2021