Journal
JOURNAL OF NAVIGATION
Volume 70, Issue 1, Pages 67-81Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463316000345
Keywords
Automatic Identification System; Vessel Density; Traffic Density; AIS Receiving Network Coverage
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- Important National Science & Technology Specific Projects [2014ZX03006-003]
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Mapping global shipping density, including vessel density and traffic density, is important to reveal the distribution of ships and traffic. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is an automatic reporting system widely installed on ships initially for collision avoidance by reporting their kinematic and identity information continuously. An algorithm was created to account for errors in the data when ship tracks seem to 'jump' large distances, an artefact resulting from the use of duplicate identities. The shipping density maps, including the vessel and traffic density maps, as well as AIS receiving frequency maps, were derived based on around 20 billion distinct records during the period from August 2012 to April 2015. Map outputs were created in three different spatial resolutions: 1 degrees latitude by 1 degrees longitude, 10 minutes latitude by 10 minutes longitude, and 1 minute latitude by 1 minute longitude. The results show that it takes only 56 hours to process these records to derive the density maps, 1.7 hours per month on average, including data retrieval, computation and updating of the database.
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