PHILSHORE TOOL A WEB-BASED MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING TOOL

ABSTRACT: PhilSHORE tool is a web-based GIS (geographic information system) application which allows stakeholders, such as the government, academe and private institutions concerned with ocean renewable energy, to readily assess the potential and suitability of a particular location for ocean energy developments. This service provides data access to different site-suitability layers and device information. Also, it includes a raster calculation function, which can implement a weighted overlay analysis using the different site-suitability factors to create their own energy assessment map. The data available on the map were resource, site suitability and device layers. The resource layers contains power and velocity which was modelled using Delft3D and regional IHO tide stations. Device performance such as Availability and Capacity Factor and Potential Power, were derived from aforementioned resource layers. PhilSHORE tool was developed using different open-sourced libraries and frameworks like Leaflet JS, D3 JS, GDAL, NumPy, Django and others. Django a python web framework was used as the primary structure for building the application. Geopstial Data Abstraction Library and NumPy were used for manipulating different suitability and device layers. Leaflet J