Leamington Automatic Identification Systems Receiver Deployed 2016-01-01

The Coastguard AIS MMSI 003160051 was deployed on 2016-01-01 at Leamington. Leamington is a small community near Windsor on the coast of Pigeon Bay, Lake Erie. This device is a Automatic Identification Systems Receiver. Land-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers provide data that track marine vessels within range of the receiver. The data are used to monitor, understand and mitigate the impacts of marine shipping activities. It was deployed on a fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 3.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.