We're a student team building a physics-based oil-spill attribution prototype for India's Smart India Hackathon 2026 (problem statement SIH26143, set by the National Technical Research Organisation). Our token works well for vessel identity, AIS-off gap events and SAR vessel detections — thank you for making those available. We're requesting access to public-global-all-tracks. Why: given a Sentinel-1 oil slick, we run a Lagrangian drift model backwards to estimate where and when the oil was released, then replay each candidate vessel's AIS track forward through the same ocean physics and score the simulated slick against the observed one. The vessels that cause these slicks are tankers and cargo ships, so public-global-fishing- tracks doesn't cover them — we get 404 for our candidates and 403 for all-tracks. Scope: five named MMSIs over a ~48-hour window around one slick in the Indian EEZ (Gulf of Kutch, 21 Aug 2025). Very low query volume, one two-week project. Non-commercial, academic, and we credit GFW explicitly. If all-tracks isn't granted at this tier, we'd be grateful to know what is available for non-fishing vessels so we can plan around it.
