AIS Total Shipping Intensity

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

AIS Total Shipping Intensity

File:Layer AIS Total Shipping Intensity.png
Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Shipping

Description

AIS stands for Automatic Identification System; it's an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships. AIS Total Shipping Intensity shows the total amount of ships that cross each cell of the region in a certain amount of time.

MSP Challenge

In the MSP Challenge, this layer is static and does not contribute to any pressures in the ecossystem.

Return to shipping.

Not available.

This layer is not included in the North Sea Edition.

North Sea Digitwin Edition

In the North Sea Digitwin Edition the shipping intensity in the Dutch EEZ is available. The data was provided on 2019-11 by Marine Research Institute Netherlands for the year 2017.

Not available.

This layer is not included in the Baltic Sea Edition.

Not available.

This layer is not included in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Types

• 0 to 500 ships
• 500 to 1.000 ships
• 1.000 to 5.000 ships
• 5000 to 10.000 ships
• 10.000 to 20.000 ships
• more than 20.000 ships

Metadata

Data Source

Data layer provided by the project partner CNR-ISMAR based on data from EMSA - European Maritime Safety Agency.

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Provided on 2020-07-09.

Methodology

The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR).

Types

• 0 - 0.5 hours/km2/month
• 0.5 - 2 hours/km2/month
• 2 - 5 hours/km2/month
• 5 - 10 hours/km2/month
• 10 - 20 hours/km2/month
• 20 - 100 hours/km2/month
• >100 hours/km2/month

Metadata

Data Source

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Methodology