ShipTracks
- Publisher: pinkfroot limited
- Genre: Travel
- Released: 13 Mar, 2012
- Size: 4.8 MB
- Price: FREE!
- App Store Info
Description
Specifically designed for ShipTracks desktop customers. The mobile version of ShipTracks AIS-based vessel tracking and management system is specifically designed for maritime professionals requiring up to the minute commercial vessel information.Features include:
⚓Real-time vessel position information
⚓Ship plot lines
⚓Search by vessel name
⚓Bookmark maps to quickly see favorite views
⚓Photographs of ships
⚓Ship AIS information such as – vessel name, flag, destination, ETA, vessel
⚓Technical information such as – MMSI, IMO, callsign, speed, heading
ShipTracks works by picking up Automatic Identification System, or AIS, feeds that continually exchanges navigational information from commercial maritime traffic. Any vessel equipped with an on-board AIS system transmits its exact location and other navigational information to all AIS-equipped ships and ShipTracks’ shore-based receivers in its vicinity. This near real-time position information is displayed ShipTracks Desktop and iPhone App.