Next Generation Ship Emissions Tracker
Developer’s Corner
Learn first-hand from the Developers of the Ship Emissions Tracker.
Detailed demo of the Ship Emissions Tracker
More on how the Ship Emission Tracker is built
The solution is built on top of the Ocean Data Platform, utilizing scheduled cloud computing in the Dask environment of the Ocean Data Connector. In this way, terrabytes of ship position data (AIS) are processed into emissions on a regular basis. The data is stored and structured in a PostGIS geospatial database. Gaps in each vessel’s AIS signal are stitched with pg_routing using vessel class specific routing graphs. The solution produces gridded emission maps for the entire ocean as well as emissions per ship. The gridded data is stored as .zarr files and can easily be queried through the ODP Python SDK for area based research
Gridded data set
The gridded dataset can be used to calculate and view the emissions from a given area. See example below.
Example: Gridded data set used to view emissions from the north sea
It can also be used to view monthly emission trends for a specific point or region
