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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
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| description | 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. |
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| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:55362 |
| issued | 2019-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[
"EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT",
"CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA",
"OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA",
"AIS",
"Automatic Identification System",
"Cargo",
"Fishing",
"Military",
"Passenger",
"Pleasure Craft",
"Sailing",
"Tanker",
"Tow",
"Tug",
"coastal zone management",
"ocean planning",
"planning",
"position report",
"static data report",
"transportation",
"vessel",
"vessel traffic",
"voyage",
"Atlantic Ocean",
"East Coast",
"Exclusive Economic Zone",
"Great Lakes",
"Gulf of Mexico",
"Outer Continental Shelf",
"Pacific Ocean",
"UTM Zone 1",
"UTM Zone 10",
"UTM Zone 11",
"UTM Zone 14",
"UTM Zone 15",
"UTM Zone 16",
"UTM Zone 17",
"UTM Zone 18",
"UTM Zone 19",
"UTM Zone 2",
"UTM Zone 20",
"UTM Zone 3",
"UTM Zone 4",
"UTM Zone 5",
"UTM Zone 6",
"UTM Zone 7",
"UTM Zone 8",
"UTM Zone 9",
"United States",
"West Coast",
"DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"AIS"
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| language |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2019-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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"name": "Office for Coastal Management",
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|
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"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/55362.pdf"
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| 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 |
| title | 2016 Vessel Transit Counts by Type |
