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Peter Scarth, University of Queensland, Australia, Australia

From the Swiss Data Cube to Living Switzerland: Developing a Digital Twin of the Environment
Gregory Giuliani, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland

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Dimitris Poursanidis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece, Greece

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Peter Scarth
University of Queensland, Australia
Australia

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From the Swiss Data Cube to Living Switzerland: Developing a Digital Twin of the Environment

Gregory Giuliani
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Switzerland

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Dr. Gregory Giuliani is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva’s Institute for Environmental Sciences where he leads the Living Earth Lab is a research hub dedicated to advancing Earth Observation (EO) Data Science and Big Earth Data analytics through the Digital Earth framework. He is also the Head of the Digital Earth Unit at GRID-Geneva of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). His research focuses on Land Change Science and how Earth observations can be used to monitor and assess environmental changes and support sustainable development.

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Switzerland is advancing from the long-established Swiss Data Cube (SDC)—a national data infrastructure providing analysis-ready satellite Earth observation data—towards Living Switzerland, a next-generation digital twin of the environment. This transition represents a paradigm shift from static data access and analysis to dynamic, integrated environmental intelligence. Building on the SDC’s robust foundation of standardized, analysis-ready data and open science principles, Living Switzerland leverages the Living Earth framework to enable real-time integration of multi-source environmental data, modeling, and simulation. The system aims to create a continuously updated, semantically rich, and interoperable representation of Switzerland’s natural environment—encompassing land, water, atmosphere, and biodiversity. Through this transformation, Living Switzerland will support evidence-based decision-making, enhance environmental monitoring and forecasting, and foster collaborative research across domains.

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Dimitris Poursanidis
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece
Greece

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