aiscot 4.0.0b1

AIS Cursor-on-Target Gateway.

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aiscot receives AIS Sentences from an AIS Receiver, such as ais-decoder, converts them to Cursor-on-Target Events, and transmits the CoT Events to a destination.

For use with CoT systems such as ATAK, WinTAK, etc. See https://www.civtak.org/ for more information on the TAK program.

Utilized for an open ocean boat race in the Northern Pacific Ocean, as described in this article: http://ampledata.org/boat_race_support.html

Support AISCoT Development

AISCoT has been developed for the Disaster Response, Public Safety and Frontline community at-large. This software is currently provided at no-cost to our end-users. All development is self-funded and all time-spent is entirely voluntary. Any contribution you can make to further these software development efforts, and the mission of AISCoT to provide ongoing SA capabilities to our end-users, is greatly appreciated:

Installation

The AIS to Cursor on Target Gateway is provided by a command-line tool called aiscot, which can be installed several ways.

Installing as a Debian/Ubuntu Package:

$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/pytak/releases/latest/download/python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-pytak_latest_all.deb
$ wget https://github.com/ampledata/aiscot/releases/latest/download/python3-aiscot_latest_all.deb
$ sudo apt install -f ./python3-aiscot_latest_all.deb

Install from the Python Package Index:

$ pip install aiscot

Install from this source tree:

$ git clone https://github.com/ampledata/aiscot.git
$ cd aiscot/
$ python setup.py aiscot

Usage

The aiscot daemon has several runtime arguments:

$ aiscot -h
usage: aiscot [-h] [-c CONFIG_FILE] [-d] [-U COT_URL] [-P AIS_PORT] [-S COT_STALE] [-F FILTER_CONFIG] [-K KNOWN_CRAFT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG_FILE, --CONFIG_FILE CONFIG_FILE
  -d, --DEBUG           Enable DEBUG logging
  -U COT_URL, --COT_URL COT_URL
                        URL to CoT Destination. Must be a URL, e.g. tcp:1.2.3.4:1234 or tls:...:1234, etc.
  -P AIS_PORT, --AIS_PORT AIS_PORT
                        AIS UDP Listen Port.
  -S COT_STALE, --COT_STALE COT_STALE
                        CoT Stale period, in seconds
  -F FILTER_CONFIG, --FILTER_CONFIG FILTER_CONFIG
                        FILTER_CONFIG
  -K KNOWN_CRAFT, --KNOWN_CRAFT KNOWN_CRAFT
                        KNOWN_CRAFT

See example-config.ini for example configuration.

Source

Github: https://github.com/ampledata/aiscot

Author

Greg Albrecht W2GMD [e-mail]

http://ampledata.org/

Copyright

• aiscot Copyright 2021 Greg Albrecht, Inc.

• pyAISm.py Copyright 2016 Pierre Payen

License

• aiscot is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

• pyAISm.py is licensed under the MIT License. See aiscot/pyAISm.py for details.