Application of AIS data for qualitative and quantitative analysis of ship traffic flows

Krzysztof Naus; Mariusz Wąż

Krzysztof Naus Institute of Navigation and Hydrography, Polish Naval Academy
Mariusz Wąż Institute of Navigation and Hydrography, Polish Naval Academy

Keywords: Automatic Identification System, qualitative and quantitative analysis & processing AIS data

Abstract

The article presents the idea of method of processing AIS data into information useful for qualitative and quantitative analysis of ship traffic flows. In the introduction the manner of exchanging and storing data in AIS was generally characterised. An original programme for creating maps of ship traffic intensity and tabular ship profiles was de-scribed in the main part. The last part presents analysis of ship traffic flows in the Gdańsk Bay in the year 2017, conducted with the use of the original software.

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