EDITO is the free, public European platform supporting the European Digital Twin Ocean.

It brings together ocean data, models, applications, services and computing resources in a single digital environment, making it easier to explore the ocean, run analyses and simulations, develop Digital Twin applications and share results.

EDITO builds on established European ocean infrastructures by upgrading, combining and integrating data and services from EMODnet and the Copernicus Marine Service into a common digital framework.

The two terms are closely related, but they describe different things.

Through EDITO, users can access the data, models, computing resources and applications needed to explore, develop and contribute to the European Digital Twin Ocean.

Put simply:

EDITO is designed as a common environment for ocean data and Digital Twin applications.

EDITO brings together high-quality ocean data and services within a single digital environment.

It combines and integrates resources from EMODnet, including in-situ marine data, and the Copernicus Marine Service, including satellite observations, models and forecasts.

Instead of working across separate infrastructures, users can access these resources through one platform.

EDITO provides cloud computing resources that allow users to work with ocean data without having to move large datasets between different environments.

Its infrastructure supports both CPU and GPU computing and is being connected with European High Performance Computing resources.

This allows increasingly complex models, analyses and Digital Twin applications to be run at scale.

EDITO is not only a data portal, it enables users to deploy and run processes and services, create workflows and use different computing environments.

Developers and data scientists can use tools such as JupyterLab, VSCode and RStudio and can deploy applications and processes within the EDITO environment.

The European Digital Twin Ocean is part of a wider European digital ecosystem.

EDITO therefore uses open standards and is being designed to interoperate with other European initiatives and infrastructures, including Destination Earth, EOSC and Copernicus.

It is also being connected to High Performance Computing centres so that users can access additional computing capacity for demanding scientific applications.

EDITO is more than a catalogue of ocean data.

The platform provides access to cloud computing resources and tools that allow users to:

This makes it possible to move from simply finding ocean data to actually using it to answer questions and test scenarios.

For example, applications running on EDITO can be used to explore the impact of plastic pollution, algal blooms or oil spills, or to compare nature-based solutions in response to challenges such as flooding and coastal erosion.

EDITO's services are primarily designed to enable the marine research and data community to contribute to the co-creation of the European Digital Twin Ocean.

This includes researchers, data scientists, developers, ocean modellers and Research & Innovation projects that want to use or contribute data, models, services and applications.

EDITO is also evolving to serve a wider range of users, including:

The European Digital Twin Ocean is not a single model or application. It is being co-created through the contribution of European, national, regional and local projects and initiatives.

EDITO provides the common environment where these contributions can come together.

By making data, models, applications, services and computing resources easier to access and reuse, EDITO aims to support science-based decision-making and sustainable action for the ocean.

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