Climate models describe changes at scales of 50km to 150km. However, adaptation measures shall be applied at human activities scales, from 10m to 1km. It is in the scope of the project to establish a Competence Centre to contribute to the EC Adaptation to Climate Change agenda with specific measures of implementation using coupled models across domains and spatiotemporal scales. The Competence Centre will promote in its agenda the opportunities offered by the availability of Big EO Data, with a broad variety of sensing modalities, global coverage, and more than 40 years of observations. The proposal is in line with the „Destination Earth” initiative (DestinE) that promotes the use of Digital Twins(DT). The Compentence Center activities will be supported by an actionable digital media, a system of federated DTs. The DTs will implement a virtual, dynamic models of the world, continuously updated, enabling simulations while providing more specific, localized and interactive information on climate change and how to deal with its impacts. These DTs will also be a tool to largely interact with people raising awareness and amplify the use of existing climate data and knowledge services, for the elaboration of local and specific adaptation. That is a step towards a citizen driven approach with an increased societal focus.
Short Bio:
Mihai Datcu is a Professor at Politehnica University of Bucharest and Senior Scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he leads the Image Analysis group at the Remote Sensing Technology Institute. His research focuses on image information mining, scene understanding, Bayesian inference, and semantic analysis of high-resolution SAR and optical remote sensing data. He has coordinated major European projects in Earth observation and information extraction, contributed to operational satellite missions (TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, Sentinel), and authored over 200 scientific publications. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of multiple international research awards.
