Leaders from NASA, CNES, EU, and Academia come together to introduce the concept, cutting-edge, and future research of digital twins for Earth Systems. The plenary session delved into the basics of digital twins, the role of earth data and sciences, use cases and examples. Technology foundations required to build a digital twin as well as opportunities and challenges were discussed. Speakers include Benjamin D. Smith from NASA AIST program who funded 14 digital twins project in its 2021 solicitation, Jean-Marc Delvit from CNES talked about Digital Twin Factory, Peter Bauer talked about Destination Earth, and Michael Goodchild, our center advisory board chair talked about privacy and ethical and uncertainties of Digital Twins. Follow up is agreed by everyone to further advance our research and development of digital twins.
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