CIMNE Coffee Talk: “Destination Earth, an EU initiative full of opportunities”

On 15 October 2024, the International Centre for Numerical Methods (CIMNE) Team responsible for the implementation of two use DestinE cases, hosted a Coffee Talk to explore the capabilities of the recently launched DestinE Platform, reflect on their experiences with the DestinE Data Lake and the components of the initiative overall. The aim of the conversation was to present a surface level overview of the capabilities of DestinE, pulling from the Dust in Barcelona and Sustainable Energy in Catalonia Use Case examples to demonstrate a snapshot of benefits to various key, interested stakeholders.

Event Speakers and Topics Discussed

Dr. Pere-Andreu Ubach, Research Engineer at CIMNE’s Structural Mechanics group, presented the progress of DestinE, specifically providing an a overview of the role of the three entities, ESA, EUMETSAT & ECMWF, responsible for the development of the system and the core components, including the Digital Twins and the Data Lake. 

Laurence Sigler, Researcher at CIMNE, walked through the Use Case “Dust in Barcelona”, expanding on the practical implementation of the DestinE Data Lake infrastructure and use of its framework to enable forecasts about the air pollutants in the complex urban environment of Barcelona. 

Míriam Méndez, Research Engineer at the Building, Energy, and Environment (BEEGroup) innovation unit at CIMNE, explored how DestinE enabled her team to combine multiple data sources to train a Machine-Learning model to better understand energy distribution and predict energy consumption in Catalonia. 

More details on the Coffee Talk and speakers can be found here.