June 2, 2025

• The GFW vessel filters from May 28 release integrated with Saved Filters 
• Added estimated attributes for Sentinel-2 vessel detections (Estimated Length, Speed, Heading, Type)
• Added filter for estimated length on Commercial Optical and Sentinel-2 imagery

May 28, 2025

• Integrated the Global Fishing Watch (GFW) Vessel API such that:
  • It is possible to filter events on Gear Type, Authorization Lists, Owner Name, and Owner Flag
  • The GFW data on the Vessel Details Page references this API (data refreshed every week)  
• Updated event details cards to show when AIS and GFW data differs
• Rounded coordinates & timestamps in downloaded event data
• Fixed French translations on vessel details page
• Fixed issue where Standard Rendezvous events would show up as “undefined - undefined” when the vessel name was not known

May 12, 2025

• Improvements to how Port Visits, Speed Range Events, and Entry Events are calculated so they are faster and more accurate. 

May 1, 2025

• Unhid referral information to Global Fishing Watch from Skylight Vessel Details Page 

April 24, 2025 

• Re-running AIS correlation on satellite imagery every 3 hours (instead of once a day). This should cause un-correlated detections for which we later get AIS data to get correlated faster

April 21, 2025

• Started processing inland lakes 
• Estimated lengths and heading for Sentinel-2 in production 

January 24, 2025 

• Create areas (AOIs) workflow improved in user interface 
• Allow pasting MMSIs from Google Sheet into MMSI filter
• French localization updates 
• New filters for vessel detections by satellite source
• Update tip & cue to save satellite tips in a database (no user impact) 
• Updated how events are called from GraphQL API (no user impact) 

December 12, 2024

• New vessel details page with event and track map including time slider
• Bug fix for users blocked from accepting terms and conditions

December 10, 2024

• Deprecated “in progress” event filter

November 27, 2024

• Rendezvous track color and border in baseball card match
• Fix bug where event icons appear overlayed on heatmap

November 20, 2024

• Added “Show All Tracks” feature
• Improved rendezvous generation for vessel-to-vessel events (reduce false positives from buoys)
• “My Skylight” menu updates
• Map tile loading progress indicator

November 4, 2024

• Optical Imagery from Landsat 8,9 now available in the KML network link 
• Vessel type for SAR updated to “Search and Rescue”
• Other bug fixes

October 16, 2024

• Performance updates to reduce long load times (15% load time reduction)

October 10, 2024

• Updated Fishing Model under new architecture to greatly improve latency and accuracy.

September 27, 2024

• Vessel detection from Landsat 8/9 added.

September 12, 2024

• New GraphQL API documentation.

September 10, 2024

• Add 3rd VIIRS satellite (NOAA-21).  And a total overhaul of the viirs pipeline to make it faster and more error resilient.
• Time slider added 
• Improved track visualization, including updated legend 
• Other bug fixes