GAEA: Experiences and Lessons Learned from a Country-Scale Environmental Digital Twin

TL;DR

This paper shares insights from deploying GAEA, a country-scale environmental digital twin in Cyprus, highlighting its capabilities, challenges, and potential for various stakeholders over three years.

Contribution

It presents real-world experiences, lessons learned, and the deployment of a comprehensive environmental digital twin at a national scale.

Findings

GAEA contains 27 geospatial services.

It supports diverse stakeholders including urban planners and insurers.

Demonstrates potential and challenges of large-scale environmental digital twins.

Abstract

This paper describes the experiences and lessons learned after the deployment of a country-scale environmental digital twin on the island of Cyprus for three years. This digital twin, called GAEA, contains 27 environmental geospatial services and is suitable for urban planners, policymakers, farmers, property owners, real-estate and forestry professionals, as well as insurance companies and banks that have properties in their portfolio. This paper demonstrates the power, potential, current and future challenges of geospatial analytics and environmental digital twins on a large scale.