Open Source Baltic Sea Shadow Fleet Tracker: Local AIS Monitoring with Cable Proximity Alerts
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Summary
Shadow Fleet Tracker Light is an open-source tool for monitoring the Baltic Sea shadow fleet using live AIS data. It tracks over 1,200 vessels from the Ukrainian GUR War & Sanctions catalogue, plots their positions on a self-updating map, provides proximity alerts for undersea cables, and detects Russia-West transshipment patterns. The software runs locally without cloud dependencies or subscriptions, requiring only a free AISStream API key. It's part of Former Lab's sovereign intelligence toolchain focused on privacy-first, open-source monitoring solutions.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledBaltic Sea shadow fleet monitoring via live AIS data. Watches 1200+ vessels from the Ukrainian GUR War&Sanctions catalogue against the AISStream WebSocket feed
plots positions on a self-updating map, flags proximity to undersea cables, and detects Russia↔West transshipment patterns
Free, open source, runs locally. No cloud, no subscription beyond a free AISStream API key
Part of the Former Lab sovereign intelligence toolchain
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