Multi-scale modelling for simulating marine activities under heterogeneous environmental constraints

Authored by Mathias Rouan, Annalisa Minelli, Cyril Tissot, Tixerant Matthieu Le

Date Published: 2017

DOI: 10.3166/rig.2017.00014

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: GAMA

Model Documentation: Other Narrative

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Abstract

This paper describes the concepts behind the implementation of a multi-agent model aiming to explore how marine activities respond to various environmental constraints. The method benefits from a responsive agent-based structure, and treats the environment as a set of forcing variables (biophysical, socio-economic and regulatory data). A first experiment in the Iroise Sea area, France, shows this approach has great potential for assessing the intensity and the variability of marine activities at different scales. The complete method is presented in this paper in order to comprehensively analyse the contributions and limitations of the SIMARIS prototype. (C) 2017 Lavoisier

Tags

Agent-based model multiagent systems Dynamics Land-use Multi-scale modelling Areas Marine activities Spatio-temporal constraints Human-environment