Introduction

aiscli is a command line utility intended to parse, filter and manipulate NMEA armoured AIS messages.

NMEA-armoured AIS messages look like this:

!AIVDM,1,1,,B,403t?hAuho;N>`Pc:j>Kgq700D2D,0*2C
!AIVDM,2,1,8,A,569r?PP000000000000P4UQDr3737000000000000000040000000000,0*08
!AIVDM,2,2,8,A,000000000000000,2*2C

And by using aiscli they can for example be converted into more manageable formats, such as JSON or CSV:

received,sourceMmsi,digest,msgtype,valid,lat,lng,cog,sog,cls,shipname,callsigns,shiptype,bow,stern,port,starboard,destination,draught,eta,imo,dev,day,month,year,hour,minute,second
2017-02-12T07:49:00.490Z,4132801,A8F19241A6BA2700E6495F440BCC7D5C78654836,4,true,25.224487,118.98596,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,14,3,2012,11,30,14
2017-02-12T07:49:00.545Z,413044610,6670FA1D340465261E9482C5FAF0279949AD107F,5,true,,,,,,HAIXUN 1010,,NotAvailable,0,0,0,0,,0.0,00-00 00:00,0,Gps,,,,,,

Usage

aiscli is used from the command line like this:

usage: java -jar aiscli.jar -o <format> [-v]
 -o,--output <format>   Output received messages on stdout in given format
                        ('csv', 'json').
 -v,--verbose           Produce verbose output.

The tool operates on the shell's standard input and standard output, and can therefore be combined with other command line tools using Linux style piping like this:

cat src/test/resources/ais-sample.nmea | sed -n '/^!AIVDM/p' | java -jar aiscli.jar -o csv > output.csv

License

Free for non-commercial use. See details in the LICENSE file.

Roadmap

• Stateful conversion based on tracks instead of messages
• Expression-based filtering based on aisutils

Notes

When using a non-release version of aiscli the command line looks like this:

java -jar target/aiscli-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar -o csv