SEANERGY - a spatial tool to facilitate the increase of synergies and to minimise conflicts between human uses at sea

New Approaches to Assess Co-location in Maritime Spatial Planning: Developing an Analytical Framework and a Spatial Decision Support Tool to Strengthen Synergies and Minimise Conflicts

“…HELCOM's Baltic Sea bathymetry profile and the coastal profile of all nine Baltic Sea countries. Reprint from Bonnevie et al (2020a).…”

“…Such a spatial co-location DST should at the same time aim to consider the general spatial DST requirements of user ease, tool accessibility, and transparency (RQ2). This chapter presents an ArcMap-based Python toolbox called SEANERGY, which has been implemented with these aims in mind, drawing to a high degree on Paper 2 Bonnevie et al (2020a), available in Appendix E, and to a smaller degree on Paper 3 Bonnevie et al (2020b), available in Appendix F. Two additional implementations of parts of the SEANERGY approach are also introduced in this chapter: an implementation into the MYTILUS tool to combine it with the environmental cumulative impact assessment (CIA) approach as described in Paper 4 Hansen & Bonnevie (2020), available in Appendix G, and an implementation in a Google Drive environment to enable a stakeholder testing session, the latter not yet described in a paper but presented to some degree in Eliasen et al (2020).…”

“…When the user clicks around in the interface of a tool, the built-in metadata changes correspondingly. In the read-me file, not only the toolbox and its tools are described but also the sources and preprocessing of the Baltic Sea baseline data (Paper 2: Bonnevie et al 2020a). The documentation of the whole process from raw data to final proof-of-concept maps can facilitate replicability and thus a higher degree of user trust (Bagstad et al 2013).…”

“…R2 recommends the tasks of prioritising a simple design, train users when necessary, and optimise processing time. The toolbox design of SEANERGY allows all six tools to be combined through one interface which is "intuitive for GIS users", since the user interface is already known and used in the global GIS community (Paper 2: Bonnevie et al 2020a). However, the requirement to have a desktop GIS program installed to run a tool is an obstacle for non-GIS users in the MSP world with regards to applying the tool to actual MSP (Pınarbaşı et al 2019).…”

“…In addition, the whole setup of SEANERGY is a qualitative and quantitative mix. The scoring provides a way to weight synergies and conflicts based on qualitative stakeholder opinions to be inputs in non-spatial and spatial quantitative measures (Paper 2: Bonnevie et al 2020a). Integrating different knowledge sources, as was done in the SEANERGY approach, can also be a means to provide multi-functionality (Ruiz-Frau et al 2015).…”