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[Poster 1-14]Recommended Practice for the Development of Digital Twins of the Earth.
*Sigmund Kluckner1 (1. Sigmund Kluckner (Austria))
Digital Twins of the Earth (DTEs) offer transformative capabilities for simulating, predicting, and delivering actionable information to support decision-making across planetary subsystems. However, current DTE initiatives are frequently restricted to domain-specific environments, resulting in varying scopes, disparate geographic resolutions, and inconsistent terminology. Because many of these systems are built from scratch, developers often underestimate the benefits of cross-domain interaction, creating isolated products. Establishing standard engineering practices is therefore critical to build consensus alignment across architecture, syntactics, schematics, semantics, and legal interoperability layers, enabling digital twins to interact beyond proprietary boundaries.
To address this need, the IEEE P3501 Working Group is developing the Recommended Practice for the Development of Digital Twins of the Earth. The scope of this project covers the development processes for DTEs and their subsystems, as well as reconfiguration pathways. Acting as a foundational "base" standard, it aims to establish a high-level vision for a global ecosystem of interoperable DTEs, including Digital Twins of the Oceans.
Currently, the working group has established a comprehensive Draft Outline to guide the standard's development. The standard is structured to cover foundational vocabulary, a step-by-step development process, guidance on leveraging the existing standards ecosystem, and principles for a federated system of twins. The document will include concrete example use cases like estuary salinity models, renewable energy planning or wildfire digital twins.
Moving forward, the working group's next steps focus on driving active content development through subgroups per section, as well as engaging external stakeholders from major global DTE development programs and communities like DITTO. A primary objective will be to demonstrate feasible interoperability across these mostly independent efforts. The group is also working on increasing its outreach and awareness activities through publications, project involvement and workshop organization with a broader audience.
To address this need, the IEEE P3501 Working Group is developing the Recommended Practice for the Development of Digital Twins of the Earth. The scope of this project covers the development processes for DTEs and their subsystems, as well as reconfiguration pathways. Acting as a foundational "base" standard, it aims to establish a high-level vision for a global ecosystem of interoperable DTEs, including Digital Twins of the Oceans.
Currently, the working group has established a comprehensive Draft Outline to guide the standard's development. The standard is structured to cover foundational vocabulary, a step-by-step development process, guidance on leveraging the existing standards ecosystem, and principles for a federated system of twins. The document will include concrete example use cases like estuary salinity models, renewable energy planning or wildfire digital twins.
Moving forward, the working group's next steps focus on driving active content development through subgroups per section, as well as engaging external stakeholders from major global DTE development programs and communities like DITTO. A primary objective will be to demonstrate feasible interoperability across these mostly independent efforts. The group is also working on increasing its outreach and awareness activities through publications, project involvement and workshop organization with a broader audience.
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