Maritime Awards Society of Canada

Interested in what ships are docked in Halifax? Want to track a tanker through the Salish Sea? Wondering how busy St. John’s is? You can do it right now, for free, from home. The Marine Traffic Project takes advantage of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to provide a near real-time position, speed, and course information on vessels in select regions. AIS data from ship transponders is collected and uploaded to the Marine Traffic Project in minutes. Combined with Google Maps, the data provides open source geointelligence on thousands of ships.

The MArine Traffic Project web site is part of an academic, open, community-based project. It provides free real-time information to the public, about ship movements and ports, mainly across the coast-lines of Europe and North America. The project is currently hosted by the Department of Product and Systems Design Enginnering, University of the Aegean, Greece. The initial data collection is based on the Automatic Identification System (AIS).

Salish Sea Vessel Traffic - November 24 2009