Irelands Digital Ocean Programme - Developing Digital Twin Capabilities for Ireland's Marine

1. Ireland’s
Digital Ocean
Developing Digital Twin
Capabilities
Eoin O’Grady
Marine Institute
Ireland’s Destination Earth Workshop
4th October 2023

2. From Data Acquisition to Decision-Support
In-Situ Technology & Networks Ocean Forecasts Digital Tools
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• Aquamis - Licensed Aquaculture
Viewer
• HAB Bulletin -Status of harmful and
toxic algae
• Digital Stock Book – Annual report of
Ireland’s fisheries resources.
Decisions & Actions
Data Archives

3. Why Digital Twins?
Interactive visual information – “real-world
view”
Makes “what is” and “what-if” information
more accessible to end users
Combines in-situ and remote observation
data with modelled and archive data
Supports the interactive scenario planning to
support decision making
Ref: Port of Rotterdam Ref: Cergaon
Ref: ESRI
Ref: SSE, Avanade
Ref: Gartner

4. Marine Data from Many Sources
Data from 30+ national partners, mix of central and distributed
data hosting
Supports national and international programmes (NMPF &
MarinePlan.ie, AQUAMIS, DCF, MSFD, etc.)
Accredited National Oceanographic Data Centre, with
structured quality management system.
Data federation with data brokers and developing data lakes.
Data to / from ICES, CMEMS, EMODNET (via EMODNET
Ingestion).
Standards from SeaDataNet, IODE, EMSO, EMODNET, ICES,
EEA and others allow for interoperability of data and services.
MarinePlan.ie (DHLGH) Ireland’s Marine Atlas (MI)
National Marine Data from many organisations for
national programmes & research activities

5. A Toolbox for Analysis & Visualisation
Real-time
metocean
observations
via IoT service
INFOMAR
seabed data
service incl.
bathymetry
and
backscatter
Numerical
model data
with time-
series
selector
Streaming
video and
acoustic data
via HEAnet
Interactive &
Mixed Reality
3D
visualisation
for new digital
perspectives

8. Bringing it all together
End User
Needs
Marine
Domain &
Scientific
Expertise
Federated
Data
Digital
Capabilities
Digital
Twins of
the Ocean
Users:
Policy-maker
Local Authority
Planner
Scientist
Public
Building on:
Digital Ocean
Marine Atlas
Aquaculture
Viewers
HABS Bulletin
Digital Stockbook
Source: EC

9. Building towards Digital Twin
Capabilities for Decision Support
• Digital Twins supports
improved understanding of
the marine environment
and decision support by
end-users.
• They can provide improved
visualisations of the current
“as-is” situation and the
impact of future scenarios
e.g. new infrastructure,
coastal zone management,
etc.
• They can help model near-
future scenarios to support
marine management, sea
safety and operations.
• The adoption of Digital
Twins will enable enhanced
understanding and
decision-making for a wide
range of marine use cases.
Future
Future options
Augmented Visualisation
Dynamic models, real-time
observations, future analytics
3D Seabed & Infrastructure Data
Credit: Google

10. Marine Use Cases
• Marine Planning & Licensing
• Marine Transport & Ports
• Ocean Renewable Energy
• Aquaculture Management
• Climate Adaptation &
Resilience
• Environmental Management
• Outreach & Education

11. Ireland’s Digital Ocean
Transformation & Digital Twins
• Digital Twins for the Ocean are gaining momentum,
enabled by digitalisation and new programmes bringing
together data from increasingly connected sources, with
HPC and cloud computing, and rapidly advancing analytics
capabilities including machine learning and advanced
visualisations.
• Digital Twins for the Ocean can be key tools in the digital
transformation of Ireland’s Marine and Maritime Sectors,
supporting areas such as planning and licensing, climate
adaptation, environmental management, aquaculture
management, ORE infrastructure development, transport
and port operations.
• Irelands Digital Ocean programme is adopting Digital Twin
concepts to make marine information more readily available
to end-users, to help understanding and timely decision
making.
NMPF Data Providers

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