Chapter 2. Dashboard and Visualization of Ship Trajectories (AIS)

Table of Contents

Contents
Tools
Setting up the Data Source
Setting up the Visualization Dashboard
Sign in and Connect to Data Source
Creating a Dashboard
Speed of Individual Ships
Routes Used Most Frequently Visualized with a Static Heat Map
Number of Boats Moving Through a Given Area
Boats in Proximity in a Given Time Range
Dynamic Dashboards - Creating Variables
Dynamic Query: Number of Boats Moving Through a Given Area in a Certain Time Period
Global Variables
Final Dashboard

This module builds on the Managing Ship Trajectories (AIS) module by creating a business intelligence dashboard to visualize and manipulate data. The module shows how to set up a Grafana dashboard with an existing database, create basic visualizations, set properties for different outputs, and use Variables to create dynamic visuals.

Contents

The module covers the following topics:

  • Setting up a Grafana dashboard and connecting to a database

  • Visualize a statistic from simple aggregations

  • Visualize spatial frequency with a heat-map (not aggregated)

  • Visualize frequency in spatial extent with a heat-map (pre-aggregated)

  • Visualize spatio-temporal proximate objects

  • Create dynamic queries with variables