- This is a light version of a more heavy-weight ML-based tracker.
README head:
Baltic Sea shadow fleet monitoring via live AIS data. Watches 1200+ vessels from the Ukrainian GUR War&Sanctions catalogue against the AISStream WebSocket feed, plots positions on a self-updating map, flags proximity to undersea cables, and detects Russia↔West transshipment patterns.
Free, open source, runs locally. No cloud, no subscription beyond a free AISStream API key.
- Seems a bit deceptive to say "No cloud, no subscription, runs locally" when it still needs an api.
- From head of README
“ Free, open source, runs locally. No cloud, no subscription beyond a free AISStream API key.”
I mean we don’t have the vessels floating around live locally inside machine :) Gotta get the AIS messages from somewhere
- And the webserver is running locally, this is not web based, that’s the no cloud part
- Tried it. Doesn't work. Does not show any vessels for me, list (and map) stays empty, console is full of "WS closed: no close frame received or sent. Reconnecting in 10s"
HN hug of death?
- You got an aisstream.io key and set it before launching? Check the README.You can hard code it in shadow_tracker.py too
Bedtime in Sweden. Back tomorrow if you need support.
- yeah, seemed I had an error in that key, it cut off 2 characters at the end. Works fine now, thanks!
- Good!
Tried to do onboarding guide as proper as possible with the scripts and for different OSs. Many OSINT hobbyists/enthusiasts out there, but not all of them are familiar with installing dependencies/launching Python etc
It takes a few 3 min runs to render/populate the map.
Happy tracking!
- Feels like that could be the point of the site. It's a shadow fleet where the ships are trying to stay hidden from tracking. That would be a great site.
Kind of like my favorite book on my self title "Everything I Know About Women". It's a hard cover book with hundreds of pages. Every one of them is blank.
I guess I find dumb things funny
- :)
A hybrid war going on in the Baltic region. Women involved too
We have been running the main system a year. Loads of data, less women
Now there is this light version for the hobbyists, onboarding tricky for some users, but README covers it all
- AIS is the first thing nefarious vessels turn off when they do nefarious things. Or set it to show 100-1000 km off, AIS protocol is easy.
- One could combine it with satellite imagery and flag up anything where the ais data and satellite imagery doesn't show a ship in that place.
Ships are big enough that even low Res imagery ought to be able to see them in daylight.
- I was commenting on the link posted.
"Could be" of course many things better. The webmasters could launch their own satellites.
- Yes this can be a true intelligence tool, combining many sources
- Screenshot or bust
- Plenty over here:
- It would look nice on a Home Assistant dashboard
- Whatever you got :)
Siri, NORA IMO 9259408, give me position, knots, and heading
Later versions
56 points by FormerLabFred 5 days ago | 18 comments