On behalf of the Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council (PGRSC), we welcome you to Week 12 of our series to promote free GIS and remote sensing resources (webinars, instructional videos, technical manuals, e-books, etc.) to increase capacity, awareness, and skill development for the Pacific Islands geospatial community. Last week, we introduced the Copernicus ERA5 Reanalysis Dataset – a high-resolution, global, and hourly atmospheric, land, and ocean dataset, which are used to generate drought indicators. This week we will explore the Global Fishing Watch web mapping application which tracks fishing vessel locations and apparent fishing activity using data from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and both VMS (Vessel Monitoring System) and AIS (Automatic Identification System) tracking technologies. Week 12: Are you interested in tracking the number of fishing vessels that are active in your country’s EEZ or elsewhere in the world? The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online tool for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea. Anyone with an internet connection can access the map to monitor global fishing activity from 2012 to the present for more than 65,000 commercial fishing vessels that are responsible for a significant part of global seafood catch.
The Global Fishing Watch can be found at:
We hope that these materials are beneficial to you. Please let us know if you have a free GIS or remote sensing resource that you would like to promote as well so others can learn from them.
Sincerely,
PGRSC