PhD course on SDSS

Spatial Decision Support Systems for Maritime Spatial Planning

Maritime Spatial Planning is a complicated process balancing different uses of the sea without making severe impacts on the environment. The aim of this PhD course is to introduce the PhD students to various methodologies for spatial decisions support, give them an overview of existing systems, and discuss relevant evaluation criteria and decision alternatives in the context of maritime spatial planning. The PhD course is closely related to the BONUS BASMATI research project, and will include experiences and preliminary results from the project.

The course will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to spatial decision support systems
• Evaluation criteria and decision alternatives
• Data handling and quality assessment
• Weighting methods
• Sensitivity analysis in multi-criteria decision making
• Location and allocation problems using multiple criteria analysis
• Collaborative decision making
• Knowledge about appropriate software
• The role of decision support systems in maritime spatial planning
• Cumulative impact assessment
• Case studies – feedback on students work

Organizer: Prof. Henning Sten Hansen (AAU) & Senior researcher Kerstin Schiele (IOW) Germany

Further information and registration are available here: https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/course/view.php?id=1003.