Platform Requests

Current data provided in vessel track downloads are lon, lat, course, timestamp, speed and seg_id. It would be useful for some analysis to also include the vessels heading

Feedback "Improving time lapse (real time monitoring)" "By having more recent positions of the vessels. Currently it's about 4-5 days old right?" "Perhaps that the information is more updated not with 2 -day gap, add more information such as nonsense, authorized species, sea conditions." "Much better service if you offer none delayed informations" "The latest information is slow to be updated and I would like it to be closer to real time."

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?"

Feedback When filtering a vessel list in a dynamic report, can the map also be updated?

Feedback "Is it possible to show a vessel position indicator (where vessel is presently located, as per latest AIS or VMS position)."

Feedback "With an easy app and with real times in ships" "It is still a bit wonky on a mobile device, it would be good to make an app that is more stable for mobile devices."

Feedback "Providing units for data, especially apparent fishing effort data would be very helpful. I get confused about how to define each pixel of data- hr/km sq covered by the vessel. Or is it just the number of vessels? For statistical analysis units are important so perhaps spelling them out in the description within the map will be helpful."

Feedback An additional filter for vessel size and/or gross tonnage could be useful at times. Example 1: filtering trawler activity to only look at trawlers longer than 100 metres (also referred to as "supertrawlers". Example 2: Vessel traffic through Tristan da Cunha Areas to be Avoided (ATBA). The ATBA is specific to vessels over 400 gross tonnage.

Feedback "Would it be possible to provide a downloadable file for SAR and/or night light detections with an EEZ? It is an amazing dataset, but I would like to be able to export it for additional visualization."

When uploading points and track data there is currently insufficient guidance on the format of the data. The user guide would benefit from a better written data description and some examples of data format. e.g. column named 'latitude' with latitudes in decimal degrees: 25.67 column named 'timestamp' with timestamp in format: 2021-05-07T15:45:09 etc