openAISdataDMA

A pipeline for generating AIS data sets with historic messages from a selected vessel class The data is openly available at http://web.ais.dk/aisdata/. The corresponding paper to this work is: Mirjam Bayer, Tabea Fry, Sören Dethlefsen, and Daniyal Kazempour. 2023. Pipeline for open AIS data with filtering based on vessel class. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI-driven Spatio-temporal Data Analysis for Wildlife Conservation (GeoWildLife '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 21–24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615893.3628758

Please keep in mind

When you download data, please note that there are some limitations to the upload capacity from the server. This means that if someone is trying to download all available data at once, the system might "stall".

The features of AIS messages

Columns in *.csv file Format

1. Timestamp Timestamp from the AIS basestation, format: 31/12/2015 23:59:59
2. Type of mobile Describes what type of target this message is received from (class A AIS Vessel, Class B AIS vessel, etc)
3. MMSI MMSI number of vessel
4. Latitude Latitude of message report (e.g. 57,8794)
5. Longitude Longitude of message report (e.g. 17,9125)
6. Navigational status Navigational status from AIS message if available, e.g.: 'Engaged in fishing', 'Under way using engine', mv.
7. ROT Rot of turn from AIS message if available
8. SOG Speed over ground from AIS message if available
9. COG Course over ground from AIS message if available
10. Heading Heading from AIS message if available
11. IMO IMO number of the vessel
12. Callsign Callsign of the vessel
13. Name Name of the vessel
14. Ship type Describes the AIS ship type of this vessel
15. Cargo type Type of cargo from the AIS message
16. Width Width of the vessel
17. Length Lenght of the vessel
18. Type of position fixing device Type of positional fixing device from the AIS message
19. Draught Draugth field from AIS message
20. Destination Destination from AIS message
21. ETA Estimated Time of Arrival, if available
22. Data source type Data source type, e.g. AIS
23. Size A Length from GPS to the bow
24. Size B Length from GPS to the stern
25. Size C Length from GPS to starboard side
26. Size D Length from GPS to port side

Source: http://web.ais.dk/aisdata/

The flags for the pipeline

Crawling

Start date: str format 'YYYY-MM-DD' End date: str format 'YYYY-MM-DD' default None

Filtering

Class: str {'fishing', 'passenger', 'merchant'}

Preprocessing/ Cleaning