Datasets about ships trips in the Seine river

Question

Marinetraffic.com offers so much data about ships tracks history, state, statistics. I am intereseted in collecting similar data to develop an ETA prediction module.

Answer 1

If you want to collect AIS data yourself, you need:

• a receiver such as this one
• an AIS antenna

You will then program your receiver to forward the traffic to a given IP by TCP, and then use a library such as libAIS to decode those messages.

Answer 2

The Danish Maritime Authority publishes historical AIS data from Danish waters. Unfortunately not in NMEA format - but in a parsed CSV format. But the data are still based on AIS.

If that is ok, you can grab data here: ftp://ftp.ais.dk/ais_data/