48871
Commercial Vessel Density October 2009-2010 AIS UTM19
CommercialVesselDensityOctober2009-2010UTM19
Data Set
Published / External
55360
AIS
Project
Completed
2012-10
These data were generated to provide insight into marine traffic patterns on a macro scale so they could be analyzed across the coastal waters of the Continental United States, this data set is for the UTM Zone 19N. For this dataset a transit is counted for every unique vessel intersecting a 1 kilometer square grid cell each day. This data represents the total number of vessel transits from October 2009 - October 2010. Some grid cells were unable to be processed, but this does not interfere with the integrity of this dataset.
Please note multiple connection errors occurred during the time frame of this study. In most cases data gaps were filled by making subsequent request to the coastguard or other groups receiving the same data feed. However, due to resource constraints uninterrupted coverage was not obtained. Overall data outages were minimal on the order less than a day per month and because random and affect all areas uniformly do not has a significant effect on the integrity of the data. Also as stated on the USCG NAIS website AIS data is not representative of all vessel traffic and USCG NAIS receivers do not fully cover the entire extent of this study area. Please take time to understand both of these limitations.
To support coastal and ocean planning and other activities pursuant to the Energy Policy Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Rivers and Harbors Act and the Submerged Lands Act.
11006
was received by Office for Coastal Management (OCM) by Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: Transverse Mercator
Transverse_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -123.0
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0
False_Easting: 500000.0
False_Northing: 0.0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.0001
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.0001
Planar_Distance_Units: meters
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101
Theme
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
transportation
Spatial
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Theme
AIS
Theme
ship counts
Theme
vessel traffic
Spatial
United States
Office for Coastal Management
Charleston
SC
Data Set
None Planned
These data are intended for coastal and ocean use planning. Not for navigation.
49125
Commercial Vessel Density October 2009-2010 AIS UTM19
Commercial Vessel Density October 2009-2010 AIS UTM19
Published / External
Completed
Vessel traffic for the year 2010 for the Continental US waters. | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Converted from FGDC using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml_entity.pl' script.
1
OBJECTID
Unknown
No
No
Active
Internal feature number. | Description Source: ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
2
SHAPE
Unknown
No
No
Active
Feature geometry. | Description Source: ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
3
SHAPE_Length
Unknown
No
No
Active
Length of feature in internal units. | Description Source: ESRI
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
4
SHAPE_Area
Unknown
No
No
Active
Area of feature in internal units squared. | Description Source: ESRI
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
5
totalTransits
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of all ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
6
totalCargo
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of cargo ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
7
totalPassenger
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of passenger ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
8
totalTanker
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of tanker ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
9
totalPilot
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of pilot ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
10
totalTug
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of tug ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
11
totalFishing
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of fishing ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
12
totalPleasure
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of pleasure ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
13
totalOther
Unknown
No
No
Active
Total number of transits of all other ships passing through this 1km grid cell | Description Source: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Positive real numbers
Data Steward
2012-10
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Distributor
2012-10
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Metadata Contact
2012-10
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Point of Contact
2012-10
Organization
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
NOAA/OCM
coastal.info@noaa.gov
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
(843) 740-1202
https://coast.noaa.gov
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Online Resource
Ground Condition
-72.539512
-65.305462
45.072915
33.591141
Discrete
2010
Yes
Unclassified
None
These data are intended for coastal and ocean use planning. Not for navigation.
https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
MarineCadastre.gov Data Registry
https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/ais/ais2009/CommercialVesselDensityOctober2009_2010UTM19.zip
2015-12-18
Date that the source FGDC record was last modified.
2017-11-14
Converted from FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml.pl' script. Contact Tyler Christensen (NOS) for details.
2018-02-08
Partial upload of Positional Accuracy fields only.
The attributes in this dataset are believed to be accurate.
Maximum scale of intended use is 1:80,000.
Spatial and attribute properties are believed to be complete, although attribute information has been simplified. Geometric thresholds from original data are preserved. No tests have been completed for exhaustiveness.
These data are believed to be logically consistent. Geometry is topologically clean.
AIS Vessel Count - 2010
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
2012-07-01
Range
2009-10
2010-10
2010 Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel count data for UTM Zone19N which provided information regarding vessel counts derived from AIS data at 1 kilometer square grids. | Type of Source Media: electronic mail system
NATIONWIDE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, Navigation Center
2010-01-01
Range
2009-10
2010-10
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=NAISmain
NATIONWIDE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM | Type of Source Media: online
1
Source data derived from the raw AIS data processing is as follows:
The USCG maintains a network of AIS receivers that collects AIS messages from passing ships. These data are transmitted to USCG data center that compiles the data and provides data feeds to other government agencies. In accordance with the USCG COMDTINST 5230.80, the USCG provided OCS with a "Level A" data feed. Level A is unfiltered real-time data that is less than 96 hours from initial time of transmission. OCS has subscribed to this data since 2008. To limit data storage requirements the data feed was filtered by the USCG to only send one position message per ship per minute and all duplicate messages (i.e. ship broadcasts received by more than one NAIS station) were removed. This real time feed was archived at OCS. A specialized software NOAADATA.py (K. Schwehr. The noaadata-py Software Tool-set, v0.42, 2009. http://vislab-ccom.-unh.edu/schwehr/software/noaadata) is used to create daily files and and load the data into an Oracle Spatial database.
Despite receiving this filtered feed, a great deal of conditioning needs to take place to prepare this data to be analyzed. The AIS system was not intended or designed for subsequent analysis; however Calder and Schwehr ably proved, given the proper conditioning, AIS data can be used for traffic analysis. ( B. R. Calder., K. Schwehr. Traffic Analysis for the Calibration of Risk Assessment Methods. Proceedings: US Hydrographic Conference 2009, Norfolk, VA, 11-14 May 2009, http://www.thsoa.org/us09papers.htm) Based on their research, we filtered out AIS messages with non-unique user IDs and vessels with erroneous dimensions. We also separated messages by speed, separating those reporting a speed of less than 0.4 knots into a separate anchored table.
The accuracy and abundance of the AIS data support high resolution analysis specifically within port areas. This study however was interested in traffic patterns on a macro scale so patterns could be analyzed across the coastal waters of the Continental United States. To limit the processing time and the overall file size for each region a grid cell size of 1 kilometer was chosen.
For this dataset a transits is counted for every unique vessel intersecting a grid cell each day. Multiple trips into a grid cell on a given day by the same vessel are only counted as one transit. Instead of calculating transits based on the coordinates within the AIS message transit lines were created by connecting all the vessels reports each day. Traffic counts were then calculated by summing the number of lines within each cell. Although this dataset only contains the total traffic count "TRNSTS_TTL" the original dataset has transits by AIS vessel type and many other attributes as well. Processed from May - July 2012.
2012-07-01T00:00:00
NATIONWIDE AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
2
Further data development processing followed to obtain this feature class:
Acquire original source data and maintain a copy on the development tier, create geodatabase import the original shapefiles. Delete all feature will zero values and validate the feature classes' geometry (Data Management > Features > Repair Geometry). Acquire, create and update metadata from providers (as needed). Compressed data set into a zip file for ease of download.
2012-10-16T00:00:00
AIS Vessel Count - 2010
49125
Entity
Commercial Vessel Density October 2009-2010 AIS UTM19
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Anne Ball
2017-11-14T15:55:56
SysAdmin InPortAdmin
2023-05-30T18:09:33
2019-01-24
Office for Coastal Management
OCM
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2019-01-24
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2020-01-24