Identification

Title
Shipping AIS Transit Lines
Abstract

This dataset contains the anonymised transit line data used to create the 2019 UK shipping density grid.

The transit lines represent the UK Automatic Identification System (AIS) 2019 data as continuous vessel tracks, generated from sequential vessel positions. This was achieved by plotting vessel positional data using Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) identification numbers. The transit lines provide all ship type groups (STG), including the 'unknown' vessel type classifications.

AIS vessel transit data for 2019 processed by ABPmer on behalf of the MMO, using data supplied by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), following a methodology previously developed by ABPmer under MMO project number 1066, entitled ‘Mapping UK Shipping Density and Routes from AIS – Open Source Data and Methods’.

Source: MMO

Copyright: AIS data published under Open Government Licence. Reproduced with permission of the MCA and MMO. © Crown Copyright. ABPmer 2021. © British Crown Copyright 2021.

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Copyright:

None

Publication date
Type
Spatial data
Category:
Oceans

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Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Geography & Technology

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:4258
Extension x0
-9.78374141099994
Extension x1
-1.50731078699994
Extension y0
49.7310000210001
Extension y1
54.998862973

Features

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government
Department
Geography & Technology

References

Link online
/layergroups/appdata-wg-marine:ais_transit_line_2019
Metadata page
/layergroups/appdata-wg-marine:ais_transit_line_2019/metadata_detail

OWS endpoints

WMS