Gulf Coastal Resources Baseline Assessment

Coastal habitats are at risk at the event of an oil spill. In order to prioritize sensitive locations and to quantify the injuries resulting from oil spill, decision makers require a base map with shoreline, biological and socio-economic aspects.  This will help administrators for claiming compensation under national and international regulations. PAN was responsible for generating this baseline data. Subsequently, computer simulations on the movement of oil slicks under different weather conditions was developed to estimate the injuries to the natural resources

Specialities

Mapping

• Coastal Habitats
• Biological Resources
• Human-use resources
• Oil-spill simulator model