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Marine Transportation Data for Data Scientists

MarineCadastre ships USCG AIS points from 2009 onward as Zstd-compressed CSV and GeoParquet, Global Fishing Watch refreshes effort and encounter tables daily with BigQuery delivery, and the slice averages 8.4 of 10 on Datadory's quality scale.

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Which marine transportation datasets qualify for data-science work?

This slice keeps the fourteen marine transportation records that clear Datadory's relevance bar for data scientists and ML engineers — three score maximum modeling relevance, seven sit at relevance 2, and four land at relevance 1. Quality runs hot for the domain: the slice averages 8.4 of 10 against the 7.81 catalog-wide mean across the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs, and 11 of the 14 score 8 or higher versus 62.8% everywhere else. Browse the marine-transportation data hub for the full inventory, or the all data-scientists resources hub for sibling slices.

How do you combine these sources into one modeling panel?

Compose around three grains. The trajectory grain comes from MarineCadastre AIS Vessel Traffic Data (USCG Nationwide AIS) point-level AIS, joined with EMODnet Vessel Density Maps (EU Waters) pre-aggregated density rasters as static spatial covariates for EU waters. The behavior grain comes from Global Fishing Watch AIS Datasets and APIs effort and encounter tables, which give vessel-trajectory encoders supervised targets without hand-labeling.

Straight answers

Is there a maritime time series API for backtesting?

BTS Maritime Data and Port Performance Freight Statistics serves port-performance series through the Socrata SODA API as JSON, CSV, XLSX, GeoJSON and RDF, while Eurostat's dissemination statistics API returns mar_go, mar_pa and mar_tf series quarterly as JSON or bulk SDMX TSV.

Does AIS shipping data work as alternative data for quantitative research?

It can. One caveat: the two largest point archives refresh annually, not continuously.

Where can I get training data for marine transportation prediction models?

Stack three grains. MarineCadastre AIS points supervise position-level tasks from 2009 onward, EMODnet rasters contribute pre-aggregated spatial features for EU waters, and Global Fishing Watch adds daily effort and encounter labels. Join the 3,800-port NGA World Port Index for node features and validate flows against USACE TOWS trip files.

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