Ushant AIS dataset

This dataset corresponds to 6 months of AIS data of vessels steaming in the area of the Ushant traffic separation scheme (in Brittany, West of France). This is an area with one of the highest traffic density in the world, with a clear separation scheme with two navigation lanes. Different kinds of vessels are present in the area, from cargos and tankers with high velocity and straight routes to sailing boats or fishing vessels with low speed and different sailing directions. As such, the area is highly monitored to avoid collision or grounding, and a better analysis and understanding of the different ship behaviors is of prime importance.

The whole trajectory data set consists in 18,603 trajectories, gathering overall more than 7 millions GPS observations. Only trajectories having more than 30 points were kept, time lag between two consecutive observations ranges between 5 seconds and 15 hours, with 95% of time lags below 3 minutes.