Destination Earth is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to develop a highly accurate digital twin, or replica, of the Earth system and is set to revolutionise our understanding of natural phenomena, hazards and the impact of human activities related to climate and environmental change.
Destination Earth is led by the European Commission and is implemented by ESA together with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat). More than 100 public and private partners are involved in building the system.
ESA develops and operates the DestinE Platform, an open and secure cloud environment that will support DestinE data exploitation with the aim to meet the needs of a large and diverse community that includes citizens, scientists and academics, commercial entities and policymakers.