Data source
NOAA/BOEM
MarineCadastre Vessel Transit Counts · source identity, access, license, and current Pelagio Defense usage.
- What it provides
- vessel traffic density
- Coverage
- U.S. coastal waters
- Time coverage
- 2025 annual historical raster in the active adapter (newest available; NOAA publishes 2019-2025 on the MarineCadastre ArcGIS server)
- Typical latency
- Dataset dependent
- Access
- REST, GEOTIFF, WMS · no account required
- License
- U.S. Government public data · attribution: MarineCadastre.gov / NOAA / BOEM
- Pelagio Defense status
- active · production default
- Registry verified
- 2026-09-06
- Checked facts
- Active layer is historical 2025 transit counts, updated from the 2021 raster previously used · NOAA re-hosted years 2019-2025 at coast.noaa.gov/.../MarineCadastre/ (the legacy maps1.coast.noaa.gov/.../OceanReports/ host now serves only the original 2021 layer) · The 2025 layer publishes a differently named pixel-value attribute (Classify.Pixel Value) than 2019-2024 (UniqueValue.Pixel Value); the adapter checks both · Raster cells are 100 m by 100 m · Counts are not live vessel positions · Year and cell size are always shown