Seeing rough ocean conditions near Santa Cruz brought me back to a question my cousin and I had explored earlier in the year while working on data for underwater cables: what makes a location worth investigating for a wind farm that provide clean and reliable energy, while not interrupting any other apsects of the sea? I initially focused on weather, but a location’s potential depends on more than ocean conditions. It may overlap protected habitats, shipping routes or underwater infrastructure. Evaluating those issues means connecting information from different sources. I developed TideScope to bring mapped conflicts and ocean conditions into one workflow. The goal is to provide a base of where is good for these wind farms and where is occupied.
Built With
- fastapi
- geojson
- google-gemini
- next.js
- open-meteo
- pyproj
- python
- react
- shapely
- typescript
