Impact of shipping on maritime environment

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exactEarth is a strong supporter of work being carried out by various

Research and Academic Instuons into the Ocean environment and arekeen to widen its use and further promote the use of our data to aid in

these studies. As a result, we are now oering substanal incenves for

Research and Academic Instuons wishing to take advantage of our data

for research purposes.


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Understanding the Worlds Shipping

As a leading player in marime related research, you will be acutely aware

of the importance of understanding the impact of shipping on the marine

environment. Whether you are studying environmental protecon issues,

the impact of shipping on marine wildlife, wishing to analyse the movement

of goods and people across the internaonal oceans, or examining ways toimprove methods of ensuring safety at sea, a comprehensive understanding

of the worlds shipping is a vitally important component of all marime

related research and study.


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SatelliteAIS

AIS (Automac Idencaon System) was designed primarily as a collision

avoidance system for large class vessels. Since 2004, the Internaonal

Marime Organisaon (IMO) has required AIS transponders be on-board all

vessels that exceed 300 gross tons, and passenger ships irrespecve of size.

AIS technology is also increasingly being deployed on smaller vessels as

well as Aids-To-Navigaon (AtoN) and Search and Rescue (SAR)

transponders.

AIS is a radio frequency-based communicaons system that constantly

transmits posion informaon and tracks vessels through the use of AIS

transponders on board the ships. While AIS has been deployed successfully,

it suers from a major limitaon in that, due to the curvature of the Earth,

its range is limited to approximately 50 naucal miles. With marime

agencies wishing to gain greater visibility into vessel trac over a broader

area to enhance their operaonal eecveness, a dierent system wasneeded. exactEarth believes the soluon lies in collecng AIS transmissions

from space.

Satellite AIS (S-AIS) is comprised of low

Earth orbing satellites that detect AIS

messages, this system eliminates the

limitaon of the horizons and increases

coverage over the globe, enhancing the

original AIS system. S-AIS provides a

connuous global view of the worlds

shipping even in the most remote

regions.


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exactAIS

exactAIS, the Satellite AIS data service

from exactEarth, provides a global

capability for monitoring all AIS-equipped

vessels using the exactEarth satellite

constellaon and global network of ground

staons. exactAIS streams the data

securely, quickly, and connuously. This

real-me data enables the monitoring of

vessel trac in any area of the ocean.

The exactEarth constellaon of satellites

and patented advanced signal processing

provides the highest quality vessel

detecon capability currently available.

The exactAIS System ulises a patented decollision algorithm which

extracts the maximum number of AIS messages possible, even in very

crowded areas, providing the user with an unprecedented level of

performance.

exactEarth is the leading supplier of global vessel data for marime

domain awareness soluons and delivers up-to-date informaon on all

marime vessels worldwide carrying standard AIS transponders.

Unlike other Satellite AIS providers, exactEarth provides a full range of

services to enhance the value of exactAIS, such as in-house expert

soware teams, customised informaon feeds, global sales and support

organisaon, and 24/7 monitored Operaons Centre.


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exactAIS Archive

exactEarth has been collecng operaonal AIS data from the exactAIS

service dang back to July 5, 2010. All of this data is available to

customers up to 30 days prior to the current date.

The Archive currently contains a 4-year historical record of all global

shipping acvity. This includes over 3 billion vessel posion reports. This

gure is growing daily as we monitor over 110,000 commercial ships daily

worldwide.

exactEarth provides exible access to the Archive as historical data can be

extracted using a wide selecon of criteria including:

Date and Time Range

Ship Type

Ship MMSI List

AIS Message Types

Geographic Area

Country of Registry


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The exactAIS Archive represents the most complete record of vessel

movements on a global scale available today. With access to this Archive,

Research and Academic Instuons can exploit the rich exactAIS dataset to

gain improved historical insight and knowledge for their marime area of

interest.

The Archive data allows for study into a number of scenarios and

situaons, including the following and more;

Impact of shipping on marine wildlife

Looking into ship tracks entering into specic zones of study

Gaining a comprehensive look into shing vessels in a specic area of

interest over a certain meframe

Studying environmental protecon issues

Analysing the movement of goods and people across the oceans

Analysing shipping lanes and trac paerns


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exactAIS Arctic Archive

Shipping in the Arcc region is on the increase as the sea ice retreats

further each year and the region opens up to industrial development.

The retreang ice opens up the Canadian Northwest Passage and the

Russian Northern Sea Route to regular commercial vessel trac, which

could have the largest impact on shipping in the region.

exactEarth oers a pre-packaged data product that contains summary

datasets providing complete coverage of all marime trac acvity in

the Arcc for the summer months of 2010-2013.

The exactAIS Arcc Archive provides greater insight into shipping

acvies in the Arcc Region during the summer months. This provides

complete coverage of all Arcc shipping giving an unparalleled view into

the worlds most remote region.


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Applications of Satellite AIS

While S-AIS technology is extremely benecial in detecng and tracking

ships, the applicaons of this live or historical data is quite extensive.

The exactAIS data service and Archive allows Research and Academic

Organizaons to monitor and study global shipping trends through

density maps, as well as study the environmental impacts that increased

levels of shipping is having on our oceans.

With the use of exactAIS live and/or Archive data, monitoring andanalysing human acvity on the ocean has never been easier. The data

allows users to

Analyse shing vessel behaviour over a period of me

Analyse and monitor vessel trac through and near Marine

Protected Areas (MPAs) or environmentally sensive areas

Look at shipping trac paerns around oil rigs

Analyse shipping lanes to improve zoning

Study vessel behaviour around high risk piracy zones

Study the increase in vessel trac through the Arcc region as the

climate changes

Research marine mammals in areas of high vessel trac


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Environmental Impact

Satellite AIS is very benecial for research on the environment and

the impact that vessel trac has on a variety of aspects of the oceans.

Many organisaons have previously used exactEarth data for case

studies on the environmental impact of shipping and shing.

Some of the organisaons and instuons include: The Finnish

Meteorological Instute, Dalhousie University, ScanEx, Environmental

Jusce Foundaon and more.

On the next page is a case study done by The Environmental Jusce

Foundaon (EJF) on using Satellite AIS from exactEarth for monitoring

marine protected areas. EJF regularly monitors shing vessel acvies

in West Africa, parcularly in Sierra Leone, Gabon and Ghana, which

are quite vulnerable to illegal shing . EJF is a UK-based environmental

organisaon working to address Illegal Unreported and Unregulated

(IUU) in West Africa and promote transparency and traceability in the

shery sector at the global level.


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Case Study

Using Satellite AIS to Help Combat Illegal Fishing

IUU vessels can usually be found in areas populated with legimate shingvessels, and are oen around a mothership for transshipment. Knowing this

tendency, as well as other shing paerns in this area, EJF can use S-AIS data

to quickly idenfy vessels engaging in quesonable acvity. One such recent

example of this is the case of two vessels o the coast of Sierra Leone.

On September 18, 2013, exactAIS data placed the vessel Kum Woong 101

inside an Inshore Exclusion Zone of Sierra Leone, o Turtle Island. Industrial

vessels are banned from operang in this area. Already alerted to the Kum

Woong 101s entering into a protected area, authories then tracked the

vessel, which subsequently made a trip to a refrigerated cargo ship. As the

exactAIS data placed the two vessels within 50 meters of each other, and

showed they were in a staonary posion with no other shing vessels

approaching, the EJF suspected there was transshipment between these two

vessels on September 20, 2013. EJF invesgators acted on their suspicions

the following day. They spoke to the Holland Klippers captain and conrmed

that 4,385 cartons of cargo had been transshipped from Kum Woong 101.

exactAIS track of

the Kum Woong

101 going to

meet the Holland

Klipper.


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Track of the Kum Woong 101 in waters O Turtle Islands and Sherbro Island from September 18-19

EJF invesgators used S-AIS data to document the transshipment, and then

called the Captain of the vessel on a satellite phone to conrm the illegal

acvity surrounding the Kum Woong 101 and the Holland Kipper.

The EJF was then able to take immediate acon issuing Illegal, Unreported

and Unregulated (IUU) Alerts, acng towards its goal of appropriately

sanconing illegal shing acvies on the basis of strong evidence,

evidence that exactAIS data was able to provide.

To learn more about how Satellite AIS data can assist in the protecon of

the marine environment, download our Monitoring Marine Protected

Areas E-book here.
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Conclusion

A comprehensive understanding of the worlds shipping is a vitally

important component of all marime related research and study.

Satellite AIS is used to capture all AIS messages transmied from AIS

transponders onboard ships and solves the issue of the 50 naucal

mile limitaon that terrestrial AIS faces. The exactAIS data service from

exactEarth is the most comprehensive vessel tracking data which

enables the monitoring of vessel trac in all areas of the ocean,

including the remote Arcc region.

With four years of historical records of all global shipping acvity,

exactEarth data represents the most complete record of vessel

movement on a global scale. Access to this data gives research

instutes detailed insight and knowledge into the marime and assistsin research for an assortment of topics and studies.

Density maps are a praccal and ecient use of the Archive data,

showing general vessel trac paerns in the ocean, these maps help

understand a specic area and see where the majority of trac is

within the area of interest making them a great opon when analysing

historical data paerns.

Researching and analysing the impact of vessel trac on the oceans is

made easy with the use of Satellite AIS data


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