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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

Web Interface:
https://aisdb.meridian.cs.dal.ca/
Source Code:
https://git-dev.cs.dal.ca/meridian/aisdb
What is AIS?
Description of message types:
https://arundaleais.github.io/docs/ais/ais_message_types.html
Install
Requires Python version 3.8, 3.9, or 3.10. Requires SQLite (included by default in most versions of Python).
python -m venv env_ais && source ./env_ais/*/activate
pip install aisdb
Installing from Source
Code examples
Integrating data from web sources, such as depth charts, shore distance, etc.
Collecting AIS Data
from aisdb.receiver import start_receiver
start_receiver(connect_addr='aisdb.meridian.cs.dal.ca:9920', dbpath='AIS.sqlitedb', stdout=True)