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When AIS becomes Virtual Aid to Navigation

3 April 2012
by Francis.
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The acronym "Vaton" means in English Virtual Aid to Navigation. En Français : Virtual assistance to navigation (¹).
This concept is an extension of AIS. It allows, by means of a spacific AIS transponder located onshore, managed by an administration software, reporting virtually unreported hazard. The position of these hazards is plotted by an AIS target as an appropriate icon. In example, [...]

ADS-B, aviator's AIS

27 July 2011
by Francis.
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As I have already written, in the word "aeronautic" there is "nautic". It is no accident. So much so that for several years the world of aviation is developing a similar concept to the maritime AIS : ADS-B. I also would not be able to say which of the two is the first , it doesn't matter !
As the news about us is a little flat these days – normal [...]

AIS, the second maritime revolution after the GPS

19 june 2011
by Francis.
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AIS takes a growing place, for two or three years, in the concerns of leisure boaters. Several articles refer to it in this blog, as for equipment as for applications available for our Mac, iPad or iPhone.
Note to neophytes in this subject, or to confirm the knowledge of the most informed of you, it seemed useful to clarify what the AIS means, as has just [...]

AIS receiver at 120 € all included !

21 April 2011
by Francis.
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English company RadarGadgets, a division of Mirrorbow Technologies Ltd., just put on sale a mini-receiver AIS to connect into a USB port.

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iNavX and SiiTech AIS server

10 April 2011
by Francis.
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iNavX can connect, since version 3.1.7 of October 11 th 2010, AIS data to the server SiiTech I mentioned in a previous post (¹). The benefit of this remains questionable in France because of the low coverage of our coasts. This may change.
Actually, the number of SiiTech ground stations is increasing, the Channel coast are now well covered, and the coast [...]

A test onboard with Navigation Mac

19 Jan 2011
by Francis.
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During a weekend of January a little sad, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide.
We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself.
Greeted by two « natural » of the country, Henry and Jean-Etienne. The latter giving us a superb Oceanis 347 for the first test board, in France, navigation applications on a Mac, iPad and iPhone. [...]

Receiving AIS on the Web

1 nov 2010
by Francis.
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For some years websites for viewing marine traffic grew on the web. Two of them caught my attention because they present very different options.
 
Marine Traffic, AIS Community
Marine Traffic is part of a university project, free and community-based project, devoted to the collection and presentation of data used in several research areas. It provides real-time information free to the public, on the movement [...]

Receive AIS data wirelessly with iNavX

17 oct 2010
by Francis.
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I explained, in a recent post, on receiving NMEA data from instruments on board without going through a Mac (or PC) aboard. It is now possible to do the same for receiving AIS data with an iPad or iPhone.
Digital Yacht has developed a new AIS receiver for use with mobile devices from Apple. iAIS, is its name, WiFi transmits the [...]

Connect GPSNavX/MacENC with an AIS

9 oct 2010
by Francis.
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It is increasingly common to see an AIS receiver, Automatic Identification System (*), receiver above yacht's chart tables. Although only merchant vessels of over 300 tons and passenger ships are required to fit onboard an AIS Class A transponder, small commercial vessels are increasingly fitted with AIS Class B transponders least [...]