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Beyond Data Integration: Ecological and Semantic Interoperability in Coastal Digital Twins
Coastal digital twins expose a long list of unresolved land-sea interoperability gaps, from vertical datums and shifting shorelines to missing cross-domain ontologies.
Laura Slaughter ↗
Digital Twins as System-Optimization Tools: Provisioning Edge and Cloud Infrastructure for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale
Digital twins should close the sim-to-real loop for the sensor systems too, letting teams plan where and how to deploy multimodal monitoring before going into the field.
Tanya Berger-Wolf ↗
From Buzzwords to Blueprints: What It Really Takes to Operationalise Biodiversity Digital Twins
Use buzzwords to get funded, then break them down into concrete blueprints: metadata, catalogues, governance and stewardship in the middle layer.
Sharif Islam ↗
Operationalising biodiversity DT ecosystems through assessment-driven service mapping and reusable tools and workflow integration
A simple, purpose-first assessment that maps a team's needs and capabilities to an inventory of existing tools helps digital twin projects reuse rather than rebuild.
Syrine Ben Aziza ↗
Post-BioDT lessons and next-generation biodiversity digital twins
BioDT delivered pilots and, above all, mutual understanding between modellers and data people; the next generation must find real users and real conservation impact rather than chase the digital twin label.
Claus Weiland, Dimitri, Sharif Islam ↗