Iliad builds on the assets resulting from two decades of investments in policies and infrastructures for the blue economy and aims at establishing an interoperable, data-intensive, and cost-effective Digital Twins of the Ocean (DTOs).

It capitalises on the explosion of new data provided by many different earth sources, and on advanced computing infrastructures such as cloud computing, HPC, Internet of Things, Big Data and social networking, in an inclusive, virtual and augmented, engaging fashion to address all Earth Data challenges.