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AIS Watchkeeper

Plugin ID: 5612

Receive, decode and plot live AIS vessel traffic from serial or TCP sources, with guard-zone alarms and coverage mapping.

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AIS Watchkeeper turns QGIS into a live maritime traffic console. It
connects to an AIS receiver over USB/serial or a raw TCP stream, decodes
!AIVDM/!AIVDO sentences, and plots vessels live on the map.
What it does: live data, guard functions, route monitoring,
coverage monitoring, vessel information, and a history recorder.
Create your own routes and route points for route monitoring with the
native QGIS digitising tools. Europe's waterways are available through a
built-in WFS service.
Issues or feature requests:
contact-project+foss4maritime-aiswatchkeeper-84121396-issue-@incoming.gitlab.com
Requires pyserial and pyais (bundled).

Version QGIS >= QGIS <= Date
0.48.0 - 3.22.0 4.99.0 150 CaptainAhab 2026-08-03T09:24:21.515525+00:00
0.46.0 - 3.22.0 4.99.0 243 CaptainAhab 2026-07-08T16:01:45.418116+00:00
0.43.0 - 3.22.0 3.99.0 72 CaptainAhab 2026-07-05T14:27:55.500360+00:00