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Main menu
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What is Skylight?
Introduction to the Skylight program
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Release Notes
Added May 2026 release notes: concurrent multi-device sessions, legend toggle, password reset fix, date picker fix, expired JWT fix, simplified login
AI for Maritime Surveillance
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What is AI?
Introduction to AI / Machine Learning
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Model development
How AI models are created
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Skylight Principles for Machine Learning/AI
How Skylight delivers world class ML/AI
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Evaluating Model Performance
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Applications of ML
Data types used for ML applications
Events
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What are Events?
Introduction to Skylight Events
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Events in Google Earth
How to stream Skylight events in Google Earth
Vessel Behavior Events
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Rendezvous
Introduction to Ship-to-Ship Transfers
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Standard Rendezvous
Ship to Ship transfers between two vessels on AIS
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Dark Rendezvous
Rendezvous-like behavior of 1 vessel on AIS
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Fishing
Fishing behavior detection
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Entry
Vessel entries into an Area of Interest
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Speed Range
Detecting vessels at certain speeds
Vessel Detection Events
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Introduction to Vessel Detections
Overview of capabilities and remote sensing
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Satellite Radar
Synthetic-Aperture Radar
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Optical Imagery
Electro Optical Imagery
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Night Lights
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
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Commercial Data
Additional vessel detection capabilities
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Previewing satellite schedules
Previewing Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8,9 frames
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Review of capabilities
Added section on inland waterways and lakes vessel detection availability (case-by-case, contact support)
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AIS Correlation / Dark Vessels
Detections of known and unknown vessels
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Estimating Vessel Detection Features
Platform Functions
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The Skylight Public Map
Added Vessel Positions row to Tools & Features comparison table (not available on public map, available on log-in version)
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Vessel Positions
Platform Overview
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Overview
Introduction to the Skylight web platform
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Data sources
Learn more about the data behind Skylight
User basics
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Access to Skylight
Access and account configuration considerations
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Account set up
Steps to setting up a new account
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Login and password recovery
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Edit user profile
View and make changes to user profile
Map
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Basic Map Tools
Zoom, measure and more
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Vessel Tracks
AIS-based vessel tracks
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Show nearby tracks
View AIS transmissions surrounding events
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Satellite frames
Visualizing data coverage areas for vessel detection
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Exporting map data
How to download data from the map
Event information
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Event icons
Event icons and description
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Event details card
Added note that Copy Event Link does not work for AOI-based events (Entry, Speed Range) when shared with other users
Areas of Interest
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Define an Area of Interest on Skylight
Introduction and how to create areas
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Enable Entry, Speed Range Events
Generating Area based events
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Area Management
Functions and management of Areas
Filters and alerts
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Filters overview
Focusing on the what's most important
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Date Range and Time slider
Analyze movement and precision time periods
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Vessel Information Filters
Filtering by available AIS data
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Vessel Detection filters
Filtering by sensor type and more
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Saved Filters, Alerts
Configure your preferred settings and generating alerts
Vessel Search and Details
Admin Privileges
Support
API Documentation
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An overview of the Skylight API
Discover the functionalities and features of the Skylight API for seamless integration and enhanced performance monitoring.
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Scale and orientation for Skylight vessel detections