Countryside Council for Wales Wind Farm Project: Project Planning Document - Pphoto_1

ORGANISATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION

I. Name: Boon Hock Tan

II. Organisation: Robert Gordon University.

III. Address: Centre for Rural Studies, Faculty of Design, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen.

IV. E-mail address: d.miller@macaulay.ac.uk

MODELS USED FOR DATA ANALYSIS

II. Model Name: Shafer model

III. Source of Model: Shafer (1977)

IV. Computer Language that the model is developed in:-

V. Hardware needed to run model: Calculator

VI. Data Inputs needed by model:

A. Scanned landscape photograph (from Pphoto_2)

B. Grid overlay.

VII. Model outputs

A. Tables/Statisics

1. Landscape preference score

B. Maps / GIS datalayers / 3D models / photographs

1. None

C. World Wide Web pages

1. Snapshot views of photographs with associated preference scores

VIII. Accuracy/Sources of Uncertainty/Method of Handling

A. Error in measuring the elements of the model parameters from the scanned photographs

B. Arithmetic error in calculating Shafer score

IX. Existing linkages between data (eg in databases) and software (eg databases/GIS/Statistical packages)

A. No existing links

X. GIS Software used

A. None

XI. Modelling Software used

A. In_house shafer model calculation

XII. Database Software used

A. None.

XIII. Any other comments

The Shafer score will be calculated for the same scene but with different numbers of wind turbines positioned in the landscape.