bcmca_hu_oceanenergy_waveenergyareas_marxan_data

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project
Publication_Date: May 2011
Title: bcmca_hu_oceanenergy_waveenergyareas_marxan_data
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Marine Atlas of Pacific Canada
Publication_Information:
Publisher:
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project
Online_Linkage:
\\data-server\gis\BCMCA\HumanUse\Repository\Energy\marxanData\bcmca_hu_oceanenergy_waveenergyareas_marxan_data.shp
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project
Publication_Date: May 2011
Title: Marine Atlas of Pacific Canada
Online_Linkage: www.bcmca.ca/atlas
Description:
Abstract:
This dataset displays the output of a participatory mapping exercise conducted during and after the BCMCA Renewable Ocean Energy Mapping Workshop held November 17, 2008. It contains the combined areas of interest or promise for wave energy development along the coast of British Columbia. The data is grid-based, with each 1x1 km cell weighted according to the measure of relative importance to assigned each area mapped by workshop participants.
Purpose:
To develop a more comprehensive spatial representation of areas of interest for wave energy development on the BC coast, as currently understood based on available information. Data attributes have been modified from the source BCMCA data to prepare for intersection with Marxan planning units.

The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project assembling and analyzing spatial information about Canada's Pacific Ocean. The overall goal of the BCMCA is to identify marine areas of high conservation value and marine areas important to human use. Results of the project are intended to inform and help advance marine planning initiatives in BC by providing collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific analyses based on the best ecological and human use spatial data at scales relevant to a BC coast-wide analysis.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: November 2008
Currentness_Reference: Data collection date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -133.889642
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -124.849499
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 54.654379
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.165073
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword: wave energy
Theme_Keyword: Areas of Interest
Theme_Keyword: participatory mapping
Theme_Keyword: Marxan
Place:
Place_Keyword: BC
Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword: 2008
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints: none
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3500

Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The areas are identified with the caveat that they are based on the participants' current understanding of available information.
See the Marine Atlas of British Columbia, p189, for reviewer comments and caveats of use.
Completeness_Report:
In mapping their areas of interest, participants emphasised that their mapping is based on a limited understanding of BC's ocean energy resources. Improved understanding, technological advances, and changing economic conditions are all likely to change which areas of the BC coast may be of interest for wave and tidal energy development in the future. Thus, planners, regulators, and other interest groups should not view the maps resulting from this workshop as a definitive picture of the ocean energy sector's areas of interest. Rather, the maps provide a useful indication of current areas of interest that can serve as a source of guidance for planning and decision-making in the present and near future (5-10 years)
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: 1x1 km grid cells
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Title: BCMCA Renewable Ocean Energy Mapping Workshop
Source_Scale_Denominator: 1:700,000 to 1:900,000
Type_of_Source_Media: Hand drawn polygons on hard copy maps
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: November 2008
Source_Contribution:
Renewable ocean energy mapping workshop, held by the BCMCA in Vancouver, BC, November 17, 2008. The following individuals contributed their knowledge of wave and tidal energy to this exercise: - Adam Valair, Natural Power [tidal and wave] - Russ Halliday, Natural Power [tidal and wave] - Alex Tu, BC Hydro [tidal and wave] - Brad Buckham, University of Victoria [wave] - Nigel Protter, Syncwave Energy [wave] - Jessica McIlroy, Ocean Renewable Energy Group [tidal and wave] - Michael Tarbotton, Triton Consultants [tidal and wave] - Geoff Turner, BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources [tidal and wave] - James Elphick, Global Energy Horizons [wave] - Russell Stothers, Clean Current [tidal]
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The BC Marine Conservation Analysis, in cooperation with the Ocean Renewable Energy Group, convened a workshop on November 17, 2008 with industry representatives, scientists, and resource managers to develop a more comprehensive spatial representation of areas of interest to wave and tidal energy development on the BC coast. Workshop participants (1) reviewed existing maps illustrating wave and tidal energy potential, (2) developed criteria additional to energy potential that influence the potential of sites for energy capture developments, and (3) individually mapped the areas of interest or promise for energy development on the BC coast, assigning measures of relative importance to each area they mapped.
Neil Davis led the workshop and the mapping exercise. Neil explained that the mapping exercise was based on a method that has been used elsewhere in BC and in California. He showed sample maps from the processes where this mapping method was used.
The Workshop participants were asked to: 1. Draw polygons on marine charts indicating areas of potential development on the BC coast; 2. Identify whether the polygons were for tidal or wave energy development; and 3. "Spend" $100 among all polygons to indicate their relative importance. o Higher amounts = areas of more interest/promise
Areas of interest were hand drawn on 11x17" black and white copies of nautical charts which ranged in scale from 1:700,000 to 1:900,000.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Renewable Ocean Energy Mapping Workshop
Process_Date: November 2008
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Neil Davis
Contact_Organization: British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis
Contact_Position: Human Use Coordinator
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Polygons drawn by mapping participants were digitized from hard copy maps using the "heads up" method; an identical map was displayed in the GIS and the hand drawn areas were entered using a mouse. Each polygon was attributed with the name of the contributor, the type of energy mapped (tidal or wave), and the assigned "value" (portion of $100). Note that although each participant had up to $100 in value to assign, some did not assign full value to all their mapped areas.
Data from all participants was merged into one Geodatabase.
Process_Date: February 2009
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Sarah Loos
Contact_Organization: GIS Consultant
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The polygon values were revised to account for the precision with which each polygon was drawn. The polygons were then overlaid with 500 m x 500 m grid cells that covered the study area. For each grid cell, the number of polygons and the summed value of those polygons was calculated. This was performed in ArcView 3.2 using the them.overlappingpollys_2_grid Avenue script available from ArcScripts. From these values, the arithmetic mean for each grid cell was calculated.
Process_Date: April 2009
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carrie Robb
Contact_Organization: Living Oceans Society (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
A Kernel Density Analysis was performed in ArcView 3.2 using a 5 km search radius, a 1 km cell size, and the mean value of each grid cell as the weight. The density analysis ensures that the values displayed considered polygons that were within close proximity but not overlapping and helps to smooth the results to ensure that no one person's polygons can be identified. The values in the resulting density grid were standardized and converted to integers.
Process_Date: April 2009
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carrie Robb
Contact_Organization: Living Oceans Society (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Data from the 10th workshop participant was missed on the first analysis and initially only 9 summary maps were used in the analysis. The 10th map was added in July 2009. The previous 3 process steps were re-run to generate this revised raster.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
C:\BCMCA\HumanUse\Data_Received\Energy\alternative_energy\wave_tidal\tidal_wave_calculations\OldVersion_april2009\renewable energy data\wave5_int\metadata.xml
Process_Date: July 2009
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carrie Robb
Contact_Organization: Living Oceans Society (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Raster converted to polygons. 0 value polygon deleted. The polygons were not clipped to the coastline because that would have affected the precision at which they were drawn and would have affected the calculations for their ultimate score.
Process_Date: July 2009
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Carrie Robb
Contact_Organization: Living Oceans Society (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: GIS Specialist
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
A unique ID was assigned to "high" or "moderate" areas of interest and polygons were dissolved on these unique IDs. The features were intersected with the BCMCA Marxan 2km x 2km planning unit grid. The database was then exported and joined (keeping only matching records) with the BCMCA planning units through the UNIT_ID field so only whole BCMCA planning units are displayed.
Process_Date: July 2010
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Lindsay McBlane
Contact_Organization: Parks Canada, Western and Northern Service Centre (for BCMCA)
Contact_Position: Resource Conservation Technician
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: lindsay.mcblane@pc.gc.ca

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 5186

Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:
Standard_Parallel: 50.000000
Standard_Parallel: 58.500000
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -126.000000
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 45.000000
False_Easting: 1000000.000000
False_Northing: 0.000000
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000000
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000000
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: bcmca_hu_oceanenergy_waveenergyareas_marxan_data
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: UNIT_ID
Attribute_Definition: Unique Marxan planning unit ID number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: BCMCA
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: AREA
Attribute_Definition: Total area (m2) of the planning unit.
Attribute_Definition_Source: BCMCA
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: 1115
Attribute_Definition:
Field with unique feature number for "Moderate Wave Energy Areas of Interest" containing the total amount of this feature present in the Marxan planning unit.
Attribute_Definition_Source: BCMCA
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: 1116
Attribute_Definition:
Field with unique feature number for "High Wave Energy Areas of Interest" containing the total amount of this feature present in the Marxan planning unit.
Attribute_Definition_Source: BCMCA

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization:
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Transfer_Size: 0.673
Available_Time_Period:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: November 2008

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20120402
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis
Contact_Person: Dave Nicolson
Contact_Position: Project Manager
Contact_Address:
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Extensions:
Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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