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Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B)
is a surveillance technology and form of Electronic Conspicuity
in which an aircraft determines
its position via satellite
navigation or other sensors and periodically broadcasts it, enabling
it to be tracked.
Contents
Docs and Quickstarts
Books and Articles
ADS-B Aggregators
Note The aggregators below are displayed per
category based on the number of feeders on 27-02-2023.
You can check out real-time stats about all listed aggregators by
clicking the Grafana button below. If the number of feeders was
unavailable, sites were compared based on the number of planes they
tracked. Feel free to open a create a pull
request if you think the order needs to be updated.
Open source orientated
- adsb.fi - A community-driven flight
tracker with hundreds of feeders worldwide that provides open and
unfiltered access to worldwide air traffic data.
- ADSB One - A one-stop resource for
all aero-related information and a community-driven aggregator for
aero-feed data legally dedicated to the public interest.
- ADSB.lol - A completely open-source
and community-driven flight tracker that displays and provides ODbL-licensed
data via a free API as well as free historical
data.
- ADSBHub.org - A service for
real-time ADS-B data sharing and exchange between plane tracking
enthusiasts, plane spotters, radio amateurs and professionals interested
in developing ADS-B-related software.
- TheAirTraffic - A
community-driven ADS-B aggregator dedicated to keeping the air-tracking
data on their site open and unfiltered.
- PlaneSpotters.net - A
civil aviation database and aggregator with a large collection of
aircraft photos and information.
- Plane.watch - A community hosted
flight tracker.
- www.live-military-mode-s.eu
- A community driven flight tracker that is focused at tracking military
aircraft.
- adsb.chaos-consulting.de - A
non-commercial tracker for flights, ships, and radiosondes managed by
enthusiasts. Focuses on the contributions of individual feeding
stations.
Non-profits
- Opensky Network - The
OpenSky Network is a non-profit association based in Switzerland that
provides open access to flight tracking control data. It was set up as a
research project by several universities and government entities to
improve the security, reliability and efficiency of the airspace.
Commercial
- FlightAware -
An American multinational technology company that provides real-time,
historical, and predictive flight tracking data and products.
- FlightRadar24 - A Swedish internet-based service
that shows real-time aircraft flight tracking information on a map.
- RadarBox - A
Tampa-based global flight tracking and data services company that offers
worldwide commercial and general aviation flight tracking.
- ADS-B Exchange - A
flight tracking company that offers high fidelity, stable, and secure
flight tracking service. It was started by volunteers and flight
enthusiasts but was recently acquired by JETNET.
- PlaneFinder.net - A
United Kingdom-based real-time flight tracking service shows global
flight data like flight numbers, how fast an aircraft moves, elevation,
and travel destination.
- AvDelphi - An aviation data
and services company that shows airframes, registrations, types,
airports and flights, radar and nav points, and owner and flight
histories.
- RadarVirtuel - A flight
data collector that offers premium features. Its primary focus is
collecting information about traffic around smaller airports
worldwide.
Other
- Airframes.io - Airframes is
an aircraft-related aggregation service that receives ACARS, VDL, HFDL,
and SATCOM data from volunteers worldwide. It collaborates closely with
ADS-B aggregators and works with ADS-B data internally.
- gcmb.io - ADS-B data from
ABSBHub.org published via the MQTT protocol.
Software
General
- readsb - ADS-B
decoder swiss knife.
- dump1090 - A
simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices.
- flightmon - Simple
command-line “GUI” for showing current dump1090/readsb data.
- sdr-enthusiasts/plane-alert-db
- A list of exciting aircraft - Governments, Dictators, Military,
Historical and just plain odd.
- junzis/pyModeS - A
python decoder for Mode S and ADS-B signals.
Feeding
Visualisation
- wiedehopf/tar1090
- A great way to view your ADS-B data.
- Grafana - Open source analytics
and monitoring solution for every database.
Browser extensions
- RadarAtlas
- An ADSB & tar1090 add on that makes it fun and accessible to track
the most interesting aircraft in the world.
Apps
Social
- docker-planefence -
A little tool that can be used to log, display and tweet the aircraft
that come within range of your receiver (i.e. the fence).
- Jxck-S/plane-notify -
Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using OpenSky or
ADS-B Exchange data.
Hardware
SBC
- Rasbpberry Pi - Small
single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom.
- Orange
Pi - Single-board computers created using OS cost-effective
hardware.
- Banana Pi - Single-bard
computers created by a Chinese open-source hardware community.
Receivers
Filters
Warning Some ADS-B USB receivers already contain an
onboard filter.
Antennas
- Vinnant antennas - Specialized
premium antennas made in Slovakia.
- DPD antennas -
High-quality antennas for various radio services produced in the
USA.
Follow
TODO: Please create a pull
request if you know people in the ADS-B space that are worth
following.
Who else should we be
following?
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Contributing
Contributions of any kind are welcome đź’™! Please check out the contributing guidelines.
Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people that
contributed!
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