INDIMAR system for locating suitable areas for economic activities in Macaronesian waters

Name: SISTEMA INDIMAR 

Registration No: 2002073042053

Registered intellectual property title: SISTEMA INDIMAR 

Description of qualities: It is an online application to support decision making and to determine the suitability of a maritime area for the development of different economic sectors. The assessment is quantified with a range of values from 0 to 10, according to a list of relevant environmental parameters (biological, physical, geological, geographical, etc.). The interface is divided into a graphical part, where the cartographic results are represented, and a numerical part, where the parameters are shown sorted by topic, as well as a summary of the data contained. 

Inventors/authors:  Manuel Alejandro García Mendoza; Andrej Abramic Petkovic; María Yaiza Fernández-Palacios Vallejo; Ricardo Jesús Haroun Tabraue. 

Rights holder entity: UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA 

IU-ECOAQUA research group involved: BIOCON 

Country of registration: Spain  

Date of registration:07/02/2020 

More information: This work was partially funded by project PLASMAR (MAC/1.1a/030) and finalized with project PLASMAR+ (MAC2/1.1a/347) with the support of the European Union (EU), and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the INTERREG V-A Spain-Portugal MAC 2014–2020 (Madeira-Azores-Canarias). 

Example of use: Introducing offshore wind energy in the sea space: Canary Islands case study developed under Maritime Spatial Planning principles, open access