Session 14B Exploring Digital Twins for Earth Observations

Thursday, 16 January 2025: 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
357 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Submitters:
Ramesh Rangachar and Benjamin Smith, JPL, Pasadena, CA
Cochairs:
Benjamin Smith, JPL, Pasadena, CA and Ramesh Rangachar

This session addresses various aspects of digital twins as an effective technology to enhance our ability to process, monitor, quality-control, consolidate, fuse, and assimilate environment observations. Digital twins have been successfully employed in manufacturing, construction, health care, and many other domains. In this session, we bring a lively discussion on the use of digital twins for Earth Observations to enhance monitoring (“what now”), forecasting (“what next”), and assessments (“what if”). The maturity of digital twins, the validity of integrating digital twins into operational systems, and the prospects of interoperable digital twins will be discussed.

Abstracts are invited in all areas of exploring the digital twins for Earth Observations, including but not limited to:

  • The application of digital twins for anomaly detection, data fusion, data assimilation, calibration monitoring and correction, and environmental trends monitoring
  • The use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in implementing digital twins
  • Interoperability of digital twins.

Papers:
10:45 AM
14B.1
Overview and Status of the NOAA Joint Venture Partnerships Program Broad Agency Announcement – Earth Observing Digital Twins
Ramesh Rangachar, The Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Patel, M. Bonadonna, B. Backus, J. Webster, S. L. Bunin, S. Wright, and K. Hayes

11:00 AM
14B.2
AI-Based Earth and Space Observing Digital Twin
Lynn Montgomery, Lockheed Martin, Westminster, CO; Lockheed Martin Space, Boulder, CO; and P. Davis, B. Ballance, G. Hoffmann, A. Linenfelser, J. Stone, T. Kaye, and J. Lance

11:15 AM
14B.3
The Orion Space Solutions Experience with Coupling Satellite and Space Environment Digital Twins for Earth Observations
Jeffrey Lawrence Steward, Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, CO; and R. Nguyen, R. Kelly, J. Furlong, C. Johnstone, R. Stutz, and J. Wilson

11:30 AM
14B.4
NASA Earth System Digital Twins for a Sustainable Future
Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD

11:45 AM
14B.5
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