searchVessel: Search for Vessels Close to Popups

In ferrettigs/OIB: Ocean Intelligence Bureau Toolbox

Description

This function searches for vessels nearby popup events. It uses the Global Fishing Watch (GFW) AIS database and to Tag of Pelagic Predator (TOPP, 'http://gtopp.org/') database and searches within a time window specified by the user, centered on the popup date, with a spatial box specified by the user in latitude and longitude degrees.

Usage

searchVessel(con, project, ptt = "153499", spatWin = 1, tempWin = 24,
  gears = c("drifting_longlines", "trawlers", "purse_seines",
  "unknown_fishing", "squid_jigger", "pole_and_line", "drifting_gillnets",
  "no_idea_what_it_is", "research other_fishing", "set_longlines", "troller",
  "set_gillnets", "pots_and_traps"))

Arguments

con	a connection to the OIB - TOPP database.
project	Google Cloud Platform project name. This is needed to query the GFW database in bigQuery.
ptt	is the argos ID. If the tag was reused that it is possible to have multiple tags for the sam ptt. In that case use latest date.
spatWin	spatial window in degrees
tempWin	temporal window in hours
gears	fishing gears to search

ferrettigs/OIB documentation built on July 12, 2019, 6:52 p.m.