Pole Star Maritime Domain Awareness
Pole Star’s secure cloud-based MDA solution provides an integrated data management platform for those associated with Homeland Security to rapidly and accurately collect and correlate maritime geospatial data. Utilising secure satellite data (including LRIT, VMS, and SSAS sources), alongside satellite and terrestrial-based AIS data, our patented tracking technology creates a hybrid track of not only your domestic LRIT vessels, but also your non-SOLAS fleet and any maritime asset operating and reporting within your desired area of interest. Access complete terrestrial & satellite AIS and blended tracking technology, combining multiple position data points into a single, seamless position track. View all ships located within a user defined radius of any ship or location for immediate identification of vessels in close proximity.
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exactTrax
The exactTrax™ service provides an unprecedented ability to track fishing boats and small commercial vessels with AIS Class B type receivers across the globe. This revolutionary new fishing boat tracking solution allows for simple fleet deployment and ensures every boat equipped with an AIS transponder will be effectively tracked long range using the advanced Satellite AIS capabilities from exactTrax. The exactTrax data service provided to customers will monitor and track boats equipped with a transponder to deliver an unrivalled picture into the world’s global maritime activity. This improved insight will provide critical intelligence into a variety of marine applications such as fisheries protection, environmental preservation, as well as maritime security through improved ‘dark’ target analysis. exactTrax ensures a higher level of safety in our oceans, offering a real benefit to maritime domain awareness.
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Marine Vessel Traffic
To provide users with accurate and actionable data, MarineVesselTraffic.com uses real-time filtering and analysis combined with post-processing. The chaotic raw data flow is filtered down to 30 million positions each day, one position per ship, per minute. As a rule of thumb, in-range vessels will be updated on a 60-second basis (1 position report per MMSI per minute). The Live Map (and the other website pages) update accordingly. You can pan and zoom in the usual ways, and skip back and forward in time using the timeline at the bottom of the screen. The controls at the top right let you show and hide different map layers, port names, the background map, routes (a plot of all recorded vessel positions), and the animated ships view. There are also controls for filtering and colouring by vessel type. The merchant fleet is divided into five categories, each of which has a filter and a CO2 and freight counter for the hour shown on the clock.
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ShipFinder
ShipFinder is a global vessel intelligence platform providing real-time AIS tracking, maritime APIs, and AI-powered voyage insights. Backed by a global AIS network built over 22 years, combining terrestrial and satellite coverage, ShipFinder delivers reliable maritime data and actionable vessel intelligence to shipping and logistics professionals worldwide.
The platform monitors over 200,000 vessels daily across 7,000+ ports and millions of global shipping routes, combining real-time vessel positions, historical tracks, port intelligence, and cargo visibility into a single solution. Powered by AI and big data analytics, ShipFinder helps shipowners, charterers, traders, freight forwarders, logistics teams, and developers make faster decisions, improve operational visibility, reduce costs, and unlock the full value of maritime data.
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