| Download | - View final version: Web-based atlas to facilitate marine renewable energy site selection in western Canada (PDF, 2.5 MiB)
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| Author | Search for: Cousineau, Julien1ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0883-6836; Search for: Ferguson, Sean1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, EWTEC 2019, September 1-6, 2019, Naples, Italy |
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| Physical description | 10 p. |
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| Subject | marine renewable energy; atlas; decision support system; multi-criteria decision analysis; marine resource assessment; GIS |
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| Abstract | A web-based Marine Energy Resource Atlas was developed to assist marine renewable energy stakeholders with preliminary site selection and feasibility investigations in the rivers and coastal waters in western Canada. The Atlas offers a clean and simple interface through which users are able to interact with the underlying geospatial data and customize investigations to fit their specific design and development criteria. The Atlas represents a uniquely flexible and accessible decision support system that can be operated online via a web browser and does not require any specialized geographic information system software. As such, the Atlas is an effective tool to quickly investigate multiple scenarios with different resource, socio-economic, and environmental criteria. Resulting hotspot delineations are visualized in the web browser and are updated in real-time in response to user-interaction and criteria adjustments. It is anticipated that the flexibility and ease-of-use of the Atlas will facilitate site selection and ultimately contribute to well-informed marine renewable energy resource management. Additionally, the Atlas represents the first tool to offer decision support capabilities for tidal, wave, and river hydrokinetic resources under a common system and interface. |
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| Publication date | 2019-09 |
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| Publisher | European Tidal and Wave Energy Conference |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 448d9be6-613c-4f76-a6ef-8c4e49f83287 |
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| Record created | 2023-02-18 |
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| Record modified | 2023-02-20 |
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