Receiving Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals
AIS-catcher is a comprehensive Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver for multiple platforms. The aim of AIS-catcher is to provide a platform to facilitate continuous improvement of receiver models.
This package introduces the AIS-catcher command, a dual-channel AIS receiver compatible with various hardware, including RTL-SDR dongles (such as the ShipXplorer AIS dongle), AirSpy (Mini/R2/HF+), HackRF, SDRPlay, SoapySDR, file input, and ZMQ and TCP servers (RTL-TCP/SpyServer). The output is delivered as NMEA messages, which can be displayed on screen or broadcast via UDP/HTTP/TCP.
AIS-catcher is a lightweight command line utility and includes a built-in web server for use on secure internal networks.
AIS-catcher is created for research and educational purposes under the GNU GPL v3 license.
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