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Canadian Military Signs Contract to Evaluate Suitability for Northern Surveillance.

(PopWireless: COMM DEV wants to receive AIS data by satellite and make the data available on earth eliminating the need for thousands of shore based dedicated receivers. This is interesting because AIS monitoring by ship spotters is a new and exciting hobby that got its start when AIS was created in 2004.  PopularWireless maintains an AIS receiver on the Chesapeake Bay at Plum Point, MD to assist in the identification of ships using GMRS radio frequencies in US waters - FSI identification. The PopularWireless AIS receiver data is output to a publicly available Google Map.)
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