Understanding Spire’s Enhanced Satellite AIS Data
Spire Maritime’s Enhanced Satellite AIS is a valuable feature that complements Standard AIS and Real-Time AIS services. It offers enhanced global ocean coverage to monitor various maritime activities worldwide. The primary aim of Enhanced Satellite AIS is to provide premium tracking capabilities in high traffic zones like the South China Sea, busy ports, and major shipping lanes. By integrating Enhanced Satellite AIS into your data solution, you can efficiently bridge gaps in conventional AIS data collection methods, resulting in a higher frequency of position updates and improved coverage. This service delivers a substantial increase in unique MMSIs, allowing for tracking of up to 115,000 vessels per day, along with an additional 67 million AIS messages daily.
Features of Enhanced Satellite AIS
1. High Traffic Zone Coverage: Enhanced Satellite AIS offers over 60% more unique vessel tracking in high traffic zones, including significant regions such as the South China Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Gulf of Persia.
2. Comprehensive Detection: With detection capabilities exceeding 600,000 vessels and 378,000 active vessels daily, Spire's Enhanced Satellite AIS ensures that all active AIS devices are identified.
3. Flexible Vessel Options: Users can choose to monitor all vessels, vessels of a specific type, a particular fleet, or individual vessels equipped with either AIS Class A or Class B transponders.
4. Data Variety: The solution provides static, positional, and voyage-related data, offering a comprehensive view of maritime activities.
5. Additional Data Benefits: Users can access up to 115,000 more unique MMSIs daily, enabling precise tracking, along with an increase of up to 67 million additional messages daily.
6. Historical Data Access: Enhanced Satellite AIS also offers historical data dating back to October 2018, providing valuable insights for analysis and trend identification.