Abstract

GIS and data management in the offshore wind power industry
Track: Electric Utilities
Authors: Anders Roepke

A wind farm layout is established through a geospatial analysis involving wind speed model data, environmental data, geotechnical data, geophysical data, ship traffic data, existing infrastructure data, etc. The spatial data is also used during selecting and designing the foundations and as inputs for the actual installation of the wind farm.
A wind power project involves staff members from various academic disciplines, involving various software packages and methodologies. The main identified problems are access to data throughout the project lifetime and to handle geographical overlaying data from different dates.
The solution was to use ArcMap and ArcCatalogue for organizing the data sets for publishing with the Publisher extension. ArcGIS Server and a web application were then used for online web access to time-stamped complex spatial and attribute wind project data. The main result is facilitating on- and offline access to complex data throughout the project life cycle.