The satellite-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) that we use for tracking vessels is a radio transmission system in which a ship sends a coded message that can be picked up by satellite and land-based receivers. The code includes
Projects Measuring Impacts of a Growing Fleet Ocean-going vessel activity quantified at scale © photoneye / Shutterstock By processing and analyzing data from automatic identification systems (AIS), we are able to reveal the global pattern of all sea-going vessels and begin to identify their impacts on ocean ecosystems. An increasing challenge Vessel traffic has quadrupled […]
Annie Mejaes Associate Product Manager Vancouver Island, Canada Annie supports the product development team in the execution and maintenance of Global Fishing Watch’s map and marine manager portal, helping to advance ocean governance through access to open ocean data. She works with external stakeholders to cultivate feedback channels, coordinates the design and delivery of training […]
Every day we download more than 20 million data points, giving us the positions of the about two hundred thousand vessels in the world. To see where these vessels traveled in 2015, I plotted their positions to create the map you see above. This map shows all vessels carrying AIS, and not just fishing vessels, and […]
The sample vessel track below shows position broadcasts of the Jin Sheng No.2, a Chinese fishing vessel with mmsi number 413270430. Over three weeks in March of 2015, this vessel steamed from the central Pacific to the coast of Japan, Korea, and China. While moving, a vessel broadcasts its position via AIS every 2 to […]
John Amos Global Fishing Watch co-founder CEO, SkyTruth John Amos is an expert in the use of satellite images and other remote sensing data to understand and communicate local, regional, and global environmental issues. In 2001 Amos founded SkyTruth, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening conservation by illuminating environmental problems and issues through the use […]
New York, 4 September 2018: Treaty negotiations to conserve and protect nearly two thirds of the ocean open today at the United Nations (UN) in what is widely regarded as the greatest opportunity in a generation to turn the tide on ocean degradation and biodiversity loss. Following over a decade of discussions at the UN, […]
This April, Our Ocean Conference will once again unite governments, businesses and civil society to address the many interrelated challenges facing our ocean. Hosted by the Republic of Korea, and running April 28-30 in Busan, this will be the 10th Our Ocean Conference and sits under the theme ‘Our Ocean, Our Action’. This reflects the […]
This article was originally published by SkyTruth on May 31, 2023.
