North Pacific and Arctic Marine Vessel Traffic Dataset (2015-2020); 10 Kilometer Resolution.

• Main Authors: Kelly Kapsar, Benjamin Sullender, Aaron Poe
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Shipping; Vessel traffic; Automatic Identification System; Satellite AIS; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Bering Strait; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Chukchi; Pacific Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2NZ80R4J

These data are a spatially explicit representation of monthly shipping intensity in the Pacific Arctic region from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2020. We calculated shipping intensity based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, a type of Global Positioning System (GPS) transmitter require...