2016 Vessel Transit Counts by Type
Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) are a navigation safety device that transmits and monitors the location and characteristics of many vessels in U.S. and international waters in real-time. In the U.S. the Coast Guard and industry collect AIS data, which can also be used for a variety of coastal planning purposes. NOAA and BOEM have worked jointly to re-task and make available some of the most important records from the U.S. Coast Guard's national network of AIS receivers. This dataset represents annual vessel transit counts summarized at a 100 m by 100 m geographic area. A single transit is counted each time a vessel track passes through, starts, or stops within a 100 m grid cell.
This record represents the metadata for each of these vessel types: Cargo, Fishing, Passenger, Pleasure Craft and Sailing, Tanker, and Tug and Towing.
Complete Metadata
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
|---|---|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:55362 |
| issued | 2019-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/55362 |
| language | [] |
| references |
[ "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/55362.pdf" ] |
| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -60.0,10.7,-132.0,51.5 |
| temporal | 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2016-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 |
