Open AIS vessel density from 2021 onwards
Citable as data publication
Meyer, R.; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Belgium; (2022): Open AIS vessel density from 2021 onwards. https://doi.org/10.14284/589
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset is an aggregation of vessel position data that aims to show the distribution of vessels around the North Sea. There was a 1 km2 hexagon grid created for the North Sea and AIS data was used to calculate the amount of time that vessels spent within the grid. There are time aggregates for each month and for each AIS class as well as for all classes and months which allows users to quickly determine vessel activity and trends throughout time and space. Scope Keywords: ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight · Automated Information System (AIS) · Belgium · fishing vessel · naval vessel · research vessel · surface vessel · vessel of opportunity · vessel of opportunity on fixed route · Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone · Dutch Continental Shelf · French Exclusive Economic Zone · Southern Bight · United Kingdom Geographical coverage Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions] Belgium [Marine Regions] Dutch Continental Shelf [Marine Regions] French Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions] Southern Bight [Marine Regions] United Kingdom [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From October 2021 on [In Progress] Monthly Parameters
Density Vessel type Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, data manager
Project
Open AIS: Open AIS: Leveraging vessel tracking data for insight, more
Funding OFI
Publication
Describing this dataset
Meyer, R. et al. (2023). Dataset of ocean vessel traffic in the North Sea. Data in Brief 51: 109746. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109746, more
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2022-11-08
Information last updated: 2023-11-06
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