AIS

General Information

The universal ship borne Automatic Identification System (AIS) was created for efficient exchange of navigational data among ships and between ships and stations ashore to improve safety of navigation.

Usage:

§ Worldwide radio system for ship collision avoidance and navigational advice.

Mode Details

 

Item

Value

Standard

Modulation, primary /   secondary

FM / GMSK

 

BT product 12.5 kHz / 25   kHz   

0.3 or 0.5 / max 0.5

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

9600

 

Coding

NRZI and CRC

Demodulator Settings

Demodulator

G (MSK)

 

Type

GMSK

 

Symbol rate (Bd)

9600

 

SR tolerance (Bd)

20.000

 

BT

0.40

 

Min. burst length (s)

0.040

 

Max. burst length (s)

0.080

 

Min. pause length (s)

0.440

Features

Demodulation

yes

 

Recognition

yes

 

Decoding

yes

 

Automatic Polarity Adjustment

yes

 

Combination with other modems (modem list)

yes

Tuning

The tuning frequency is 11.340 kHz above the pilot-tone

Frequencies

161.975 MHz

162.025 MHz

Table 2: AIS

Figure 2: AIS Spectrogram