Digital Earth Solutions

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Year the company was founded: 2022

Company web page: https://digital-earth-solutions.com/

Digital Earth Solutions is a technology company whose aim is to contribute to the conservation of marine ecosystems through innovative ocean modelling solutions.
Based on more than 20 years of CSIC studies in ocean dynamics, Digital Solutions has developed a unique software capable of predicting in a few minutes and with high precision the geographical evolution of any spill or floating body (plastics, people, algae...), forecasting its trajectory in the sea for the following days or its origin by analysing its movement back in time.
Thanks to this technology, it is possible to minimise the impact of oil and other waste spills on coasts, seas and oceans.

Main products and services:

Currently, marketing is carried out through in-house simulations where the client sends Digital Solutions the initial data of the spill or drifting body, and then receives data on the evolution in the form of an animation and a detailed report from the company's technicians. However, in 2023, the company expects to complete the development of a SaaS that will allow the client to carry out its own simulations and thus react quickly in the event of an emergency.

Key to success:

Describe the core product as a fast, accurate and accessible software.
- Fast, because it can predict the evolution of any spill in less than five minutes.
- Accurate, because the accuracy of the results has been tested and published by the research group for several real cases of success, far improving the predictions of the solutions used at the time of the accident.
- Accessible, because they offer a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, in which the customer easily accesses a cloud-based portal from anywhere in the world, enters the initial event data and quickly downloads the results in an intuitive and visual way.

Growth:

It is expected that future developments from the CSIC research group will follow the same path as the initial software and will be incorporated into the portfolio of solutions offered by the company, in addition to other future developments that are born within Digital Earth Solutions as a result of its R&D activity. Some of the research projects that validate these future business alternatives are the following:
- Evolution of plastic waste in the ocean. Initiated with BEWATS, a project completed in May 2021 to monitor floating debris in Galicia.

- Tailor-made hydrodynamic models. Driven by the European IMPRESSIVE project, in which the research group developed an HD model of currents for the port of Rafina in Greece, completed in November 2021.

- Other current lines of research such as the validation of ocean models (MODAL project) and the development of 3D oceanic and atmospheric models.

Data used:

In order to carry out the simulations, Digital Solutions needs to incorporate imputs such as currents, winds, tides, waves, etc. into its oceanographic data model to understand the ocean dynamics of the area of interest and thus be able to make trajectory predictions.
The main public sources from which we take these data are:
- Copernicus Marine Services, the Marine Monitoring Service of the European Agency Copernicus: https://marine.copernicus.eu/es

- Puertos del Estado: they provide ocean models for strategic areas of the national coast: https://opendap.puertos.es/thredds/catalog.html

URL to catalog/s data source:

https://marine.copernicus.eu/es

Company size:

1-10 employees

Headquarters:

Madrid

Offices in:

Madrid

Customers:

Clients are divided into the following main sectors:

- Environmental consultancies. Marine engineering companies that offer their services to third parties in the collection of spills and seek to improve the efficiency of their operations.
- Oil & Gas. Immediate control of spill leaks on their extraction platforms. They seek to minimise their insurance policy and reputational impact.
- Shipping companies. Shipping companies seeking efficient collection of spills they may cause in fuel or crude oil transportation.
- Insurers. They assume the financial risk in the event of an accident. They usually join together in trade associations (P&I) to cover these high-risk events.
- Emergency services. Public maritime rescue and coastal protection entities that are responsible for collection.

Marketing model:

For the simulations, the commercialisation model is a pay-as-you-go model for the package of simulations ordered.
For the SaaS that they intend to launch in 2023, the model will be a quarterly or annual subscription to have full and unlimited access to the ocean modelling tool hosted in the cloud.
In both cases, the service can be purchased through our partners in conjunction with the services they offer, or directly from Digital Earth Solutions.

Further information:

juan.roos@digital-earth-solutions.com