Ship-position data from marine transponders, used to track trade flows, port congestion, and commodity movements in near real time.
The Automatic Identification System is a transponder standard that ships broadcast for collision avoidance, reporting identity, position, course, and speed. Collected at scale from coastal receivers and satellites, that stream becomes a live map of global maritime traffic - which vessels are where, heading to which ports, carrying what.
As alternative data, AIS turns into signals about the physical economy: port congestion, tanker and dry-bulk flows, and the movement of specific commodities, often days ahead of the official trade statistics. The data has real quirks a serious user has to handle - coverage gaps out of receiver range, and transponder gaps or spoofing where a vessel goes intentionally dark - which is precisely the kind of noise a scoring and cleaning layer exists to manage.
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