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[MassiDome]

Hi, I'm a student of University La Sapienza of Rome, and I need some informations about OpenCPN.
I'm doing a thesis about a radar sperimentation on the Sea and I need some referement to valide or not my acquisitions.

I red some manuals about OpenCPN but i didn't find the answer to an important questions regarding my future work.

In fact I will work on AIS data off line.I won't be on a ship but my AIS receiver will be in a harbor. I would like to know if,with an AIS receiver and by OPEN CPN i could register all data that I will receive and store them in a hardisk or some of similar.

Is present in the bar of OpenCPN a sort of record?

Sorry for the questions but Ihave to decide if buy an AIS receiver and it it very important for me.

King Regards.
Daniele

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Daniele.

[Adelie]

Cheaper than a normal AIS receiver would be a software defined radio receiver plugged into your computer's USB and software to manage the data received. A number of people have developed the software for this.
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/ais/
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutor...ship-tracking/
https://publiclab.org/notes/ajawitz/...-traffic-radar


Alternatively dAISy: https://www.tindie.com/products/astu...-ais-receiver/

Whatever you get you still have to get an antenna.

[did-g]

Originally Posted by MassiDome

Hi, I'm a student of University La Sapienza of Rome, and I need some informations about OpenCPN.
I'm doing a thesis about a radar sperimentation on the Sea and I need some referement to valide or not my acquisitions.

I red some manuals about OpenCPN but i didn't find the answer to an important questions regarding my future work.

In fact I will work on AIS data off line.I won't be on a ship but my AIS receiver will be in a harbor. I would like to know if,with an AIS receiver and by OPEN CPN i could register all data that I will receive and store them in a hardisk or some of similar.

Is present in the bar of OpenCPN a sort of record?

Sorry for the questions but Ihave to decide if buy an AIS receiver and it it very important for me.

King Regards.
Daniele

Hi,

Yes you can save and replay AIS data with the vdr plugin cf: VDR | Official OpenCPN Homepage