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Description
- Package features:
SQL database for storing AIS position reports and vessel metadata
Vessel position cleaning and trajectory modeling
Utilities for streaming and decoding AIS data in the NMEA binary string format (See Base Station Deployment)
Integration with external datasources including depth charts, distances from shore, vessel geometry, etc.
Network graph analysis, MMSI deduplication, interpolation, and other processing utilities
Data visualization

What is AIS?
Install
Requires Python version 3.8 or newer.
Optionally requires SQLite (included in Python) or PostgresQL server (installed separately).
The AISDB Python package can be installed using pip.
It is recommended to install the package in a virtual Python environment such as venv
.
python -m venv env_ais
source ./env_ais/*/activate
pip install aisdb
For information on installing AISDB from source code, see Installing from Source
Documentation
An introduction to AISDB can be found here: Introduction.
Additional API documentation: API Docs.
Code examples
Integrating data from web sources, such as depth charts, shore distance, etc.