Providing per-vessel speed data as a output variable | Data & API Requests

Providing per-vessel speed data as a output variable

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Matthew Carr

Thank you for all the work on these tools, they are extremely useful and the fact that they are freely avaidable is greatly appericated! 
This may overlap with previous requests which I have upvoted, but it would be extremely useful for the 4wings API request to return vessel speed as a returned field. 
Having vessel speed as a field along with the currently avaidable date, flag, geartype, hours, lat, lon, and vesselIDs would allow for detailed studies of vessel activity and underwater radiated noise (URN). 
The speed filter option implies that the underlying AIS data has speed avaidable, however it is only returned as a field from the events API. This means that vessels not involved in events are excluded. 
Meaning that studies of vessel activity and underwater radiated noise (URN) would not be possible.
It is possible to use the 4wings API with the speed filter, and combine seperate request  but this is bulky and ineffecient. 
Thank you again for the tools avaidable!

Gisela Morinigo

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under review

Thanks Matthew for your feedback, we will analyze how feasible this is based on the volume of the data. Also to get more context and increase the priority, can you please share more details of your use case? How are you envisioning using the data and who are the partners/stakeholders that you are working with. You can send this information via email if you prefer to apis@globalfishingwatch.org. Thanks!!