2011 Great Lakes Vessel Traffic

Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) are a navigation safety device that transmits and monitors the location and characteristics of many vessels in U.S. and international waters in real-time. In the U.S. the Coast Guard and industry collect AIS data, which can also be used for a variety of coastal planning purposes. NOAA and BOEM have worked jointly to re-task and make available some of the most important records from the U.S. Coast Guard's national network of AIS receivers. Information such as location, time, ship type, length, width, and draft have been extracted from the raw data and prepared as track lines for analyses in desktop GIS software.

Data and Resources

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identifier 2011 Great Lakes Vessel Traffic
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temporal 2011-01-01T00:00:00/2011-12-31T00:00:00
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
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  • 2011
  • ais
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • great-lakes
  • national
  • north-america
  • track-lines
  • united-states
  • vessel-traffic
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metadata_created 2025-11-22T02:43:26.731533
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notes Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) are a navigation safety device that transmits and monitors the location and characteristics of many vessels in U.S. and international waters in real-time. In the U.S. the Coast Guard and industry collect AIS data, which can also be used for a variety of coastal planning purposes. NOAA and BOEM have worked jointly to re-task and make available some of the most important records from the U.S. Coast Guard's national network of AIS receivers. Information such as location, time, ship type, length, width, and draft have been extracted from the raw data and prepared as track lines for analyses in desktop GIS software.
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title 2011 Great Lakes Vessel Traffic