Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary 2006 vessel traffic

During 2006, 3 receivers of the maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS) collected vessel position broadcasts. These vessel reports where separated into 4 categories by Hatch, Thompson, and Schwehr. Then Schwehr gridded the data groups into number of transits across each grid cell. Thompson visualized the grids using ArcGIS where height and red shows the areas of greatest number of transits. This region is the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS).

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Science & Technology

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• AIS
• SBNMS