Platform Requests

When we are in countries with low internet bandwidth, or when detecting users not with strong computer devices launching the map with both AIS & VMS apparent fishing layers are super heavy for users' machine to process. It may be better to have everything switched off and have users switching them on when they need to.

A few thoughts for improvements. If the thumbnail visualization proves to be useful for validation and insights, perhaps we can add the ability to control the thumbnail rendering (say, with a slider bar to “tune” the image quality / histogram equalization). We could also offer the option to display the near-infrared band (or a combination of RGB+NIR). Another improvement (we’ve touched on briefly before) could be providing contextual information for the detection being displayed, e.g. sea state, depth, seafloor characteristics (roughness, hard/soft, composition, etc.), history of activity on that location (e.g. average number/length/speed of vessels, most common gear/class… within a radius from the detection), and so on.

I have uploaded a point reference layer that shows encounters (mean_lon, mean_lat) between certain vessels. When there are many in a small area, the size of the default symbols, and their opacity makes it hard to see what's going on. While I understand why the way it is now is the best default option, would it be possible to manually change the size and have it stay one size while zooming in/out? Same with transparency.

It would be great if data could be filtered by registry (e.g. WCPFC or FFA) as a filter for time since the last port visit. For example, if you could filter out vessels that say have not visited port in over a year etc.

Hi, this would likely require a lot of work but I would be curious to know if SkyTruth's Cerulean oil slick detection could be added to the GFW platform. I study marine megafauna and I find GFW's option to upload wildlife tracking data very useful to have a first view of possible interactions with fishing vessels. It would be great to have something like this on Cerulean. But instead of duplicating efforts, and because SkyTruth is part of GFW, I was daydreaming of having all marine stressors (fisheries, oil platforms, nighttime lights, and oil slicks) under one platform. Thanks.

Hi I don't know if this exists already and I am not finding it. If a search by coordinates (eg adding 3.039384, 106.071428 to the search) could be made available that would be really helpful to navigate as a complement to location names.

Feedback "It would be interesting if the time bar could show local time and/or night/day, or nautical dawn/nautical dusk. This is useful when reviewing tracks for a number of cases. Did the fishing event or fishing set occur at night or during the day or at dawn? Did the squid vessel have slow speeds at night and potentially fish, suggesting our 'night loitering' fishing algorithm is missing events and may need to be retuned? Did the encounter/loitering event occur at night/dawn/dusk?"

I love the vessel icon feature where you can see the small image of a vessel moving along the vessel track. This is great for being able to see how vessels might interact with each other and other behavior patterns. What i think would be really helpful is being able to freeze the locations of the boats at a given period of time. For example I was trying to see how close two vessels were to each other at a specific moment. You can get a rough idea by dragging the cursor, but what I'd like to do is lock the vessels in place and use the map ruler to measure more precisely. It would also be useful for being able to take a screenshot of vessel locations, perhaps with the specific time popping up as a label. Relatedly, it would be nice to be able to hover over the track itself in the map, and see the time of the particular location in the time bar. Or at least be able to click on the track and see the time displayed in the map.

I wanted to raise a recurring topic that frequently comes up during our trainings with various partners across the Pacific region. Many participants have expressed interest in the possibility of viewing Global Fishing Watch’s platform data in Google Earth, similar to the overlay functionality offered by Skylight ( https://support.skylight.global/en_US/events/events-in-google-earth ). In addition, having the option to export heatmaps directly as KML files—alongside the current CSV and GeoJSON formats—would be extremely helpful. This functionality would significantly improve ease of use for many of our stakeholders who rely on Google Earth for their daily workflows.

I have a tracking data I'm uploading as a user defined points layer. I'm interested in multiple metadata associated with each point (heading, speed, datetime) which helps me to interpret vessel activities. Currently I can only label points with one data field, it would be desirable to add labels for multiple fields i'm interested in.