How can people in the shore track a ship or a boat in the seas? Can a ship or a boat be tracked without the captain informing their location?

Ships nowadays broadcast their position, course, speed etc. to nearby vessels by a system called AIS. These transmissions can be received within line of sight by shore stations, and by satellites. Services such as marinetraffic.com and vesselfinder.com allow you to see the shore-based information,…

The most common way is with AIS which broadcasts position and motion vector periodically over VHF. It was meant as a beaconing system for ships to self-identify to other vessels within line-of-sight. But there have been shore stations set up worldwide that forward their targets to centralized databa…

[image] Ant: Can a ship or a boat be tracked without the captain informing their location? If you’re talking corporations or nations there are downward looking radars, underseas microphone networks, over the horizon radars, electronic emissions detectors. My favorite are Earth monitoring sate…

[image] Ant: Can a ship or a boat be tracked without the captain informing their location? The crew can turn the system off although they are not supposed to.

Governments track you through LRITS. Turn off your GMDSS and find out how fast the phone calls start coming in. Had one malfunction in Trinidad, that was fun!

I was speaking with an ex-US State Department employee. He was charged with tracking cargoes and ships that violated US sanctions. He would send the government that violated a sanction a photograph of the vessel loading the cargo, the route the vessel took to discharge port and a photograph of the s…

Keep in mind it’s easy to transmit false information on AIS if one wanted to.

Nowadays, the vessels are equipped with an AIS transmittal which transmutes the position, course, speed and etc. Sometimes, you can get false data, it happens, but it’s rare. There are some services providers that help you to see the vessel movement and get more accurate data either terrestrial or …

Hi there, I am looking for high frequency data on marine traffic, similar to Open Sky, but instead of planes, from vessels. Do you know if this kind of AIS data is available? Thanks in advance.

Do mean a site like Marine Traffic? MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic MarineTraffic Live Ships Map. Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world. Search the MarineTraffic ships database of more than 550000 active and decommis…

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jbtam99 January 18, 2023, 6:55pm 12

Pretty sure we answered this for you already…

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