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bjornbsm

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About bjornbsm

PhD student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, specializing in using AIS data to analyze ship traffic and fisheries in the northern areas and the arctic.

homepage https://www.brendesmestad.no

contact bjornar at brendesmestad.no

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    Comment #39376074

    Do you map the tags[1] to a hotkey to avoid writing them all the time? Quite interested in this because of the version control as you mention. 1. ```{python}

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    Comment #39376009

    Very feasible, I write my papers using Quarto in vscode. Really easy to use different journal styles, handle references and cross references.

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    Comment #38978278

    There is paint that can make whatever you are painting supposedly gets a blackboard surface. Not much help for you but maybe to the interest for others.

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    Comment #38978201

    >I understood the GP's comment to refer to the state of the second grad student. How useful is K-means clustering without knowing K in advance? There are several heuristics for thi…

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    Comment #38882281

    Yes, a bit of that! If the fishing vessel is emitting AIS data you will already have the code from the AIS transmitter as well as the IMO number (like a social security number but …

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    Comment #38882010

    Thank you for that suggestion, I will check them out!

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    Comment #38882006

    Thank you for your suggestions! I'm mainly looking at how we can use AIS data to gain knowledge about the maritime domain, with an emphasis on fisheries in the north (norwegian sea…

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    Comment #38872705

    Depending on the species. There are factory ships, such as the name suggest have onboard factories that process the fish into filets, pack, freeze and stow the fish, enabling the v…

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    Comment #38872623

    I have worked with some catch logging data, and there is certainly some weird stuff in some of the data that points to something like that (but super interesting to untangle and fi…

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    Comment #38872584

    As it is in Norway this is an ongoing debate - where the smaller fishing vessels have been exempt from having the mandatory AIS equipment, citing privacy as some of the reasons. In…

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    Comment #38872522

    This is really interesting, du you mind maybe sharing some names of companies or research papers here? I am working with this topic myself in my phd, however more from the AIS pers…

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    Comment #38872448

    The ML behind this is most probably building on the work of Kroodsma et. al (2018) [1]. (Kroodsma is affiliated with Global Fishing Watch). While AIS data can contain information a…