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<h1
id="awesome-ads-b-awesome-github-contributors-github-repo-stars"><a style="color: inherit" href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb">Awesome
ADS-B</a> <a href="https://awesome.re"><img
src="https://awesome.re/badge.svg" alt="Awesome" /></a> <a
href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb/graphs/contributors"><img
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alt="GitHub contributors" /></a> <a
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<p><strong>Note</strong> Just type <code>adsb.cool</code> to go
here.</p>
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<p>A curated list of awesome <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast">ASD-B</a>
tools, projects, docker images, resources and other shiny things 📡.</p>
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<p><strong>Automatic Dependent SurveillanceBroadcast (ADS-B)</strong>
is a surveillance technology and form of Electronic <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_collision_avoidance_system#Aircraft_collision_avoidance">Conspicuity</a>
in which an <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft">aircraft</a> determines
its position via <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation">satellite
navigation</a> or other sensors and periodically broadcasts it, enabling
it to be tracked.</p>
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<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#docs-and-quickstarts">Docs and Quickstarts</a></li>
<li><a href="#books-and-articles">Books and Articles</a></li>
<li><a href="#ads-b-aggregators">ADS-B Aggregators</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#open-source-orientated">Open source orientated</a></li>
<li><a href="#community-driven">Community driven</a></li>
<li><a href="#non-profits">Non-profits</a></li>
<li><a href="#commercial">Commercial</a></li>
<li><a href="#other">Other</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#software">Software</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#general">General</a></li>
<li><a href="#feeding">Feeding</a></li>
<li><a href="#visualisation">Visualisation</a></li>
<li><a href="#browser-extensions">Browser extensions</a></li>
<li><a href="#apps">Apps</a></li>
<li><a href="#social">Social</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sbc">SBC</a></li>
<li><a href="#receivers">Receivers</a></li>
<li><a href="#filters">Filters</a></li>
<li><a href="#antennas">Antennas</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#follow">Follow</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="docs-and-quickstarts">Docs and Quickstarts</h2>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://sdr-enthusiasts.gitbook.io/ads-b/">ADS-B docker
guide</a> - Everything you want to know about ADS-B reception, decoding
and sharing.</li>
<li><a
href="https://sdr-enthusiasts.gitbook.io/ads-b/intro/equipment-needed">ADS-B
equipment guide</a> - A excellent ADS-B hardware guide written by the
community.</li>
<li><a href="https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build/">PiAware ADS-B
tutorial</a> - FlightAwares ADS-B setup tutorial.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.sportys.com/blog/ads-b-out-questions-1090-978/">ADSB-B
transponders guide</a> - A guide explaining the difference between 978
and 1090 MHz transponders.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="books-and-articles">Books and Articles</h2>
<!-- List interesting ADS-B books and articles -->
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mode-s.org/decode/index.html">The 1090 Megahertz
Riddle - Junzi Sun</a> - A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B
Signals.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="ads-b-aggregators">ADS-B Aggregators</h2>
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<blockquote>
<p><strong>Note</strong> The aggregators below are displayed per
category based on the number of feeders on <strong>27-02-2023</strong>.
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 <a
href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb/pulls">create a pull
request</a> if you think the order needs to be updated.</p>
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<p><a href="https://dashboards.adsb.cool/aggregators"><img
src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Aggregators%20grafana%20dashboard-%23F46800.svg?style=for-the-badge&amp;logo=grafana&amp;logoColor=white"
alt="Grafana" /></a></p>
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<h3 id="open-source-orientated">Open source orientated</h3>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://adsb.fi">adsb.fi</a> - A community-driven flight
tracker with hundreds of feeders worldwide that provides open and
unfiltered access to worldwide air traffic data.</li>
<li><a href="https://adsb.one">ADSB One</a> - A one-stop resource for
all aero-related information and a community-driven aggregator for
aero-feed data legally dedicated to the public interest.</li>
<li><a href="https://adsb.lol">ADSB.lol</a> - A completely open-source
and community-driven flight tracker that displays and provides <a
href="https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/">ODbL-licensed</a>
data via a <a href="https://api.adsb.lol/">free API</a> as well as <a
href="https://github.com/adsblol/globe_history">free historical
data</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="community-driven">Community driven</h3>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.adsbhub.org">ADSBHub.org</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://theairtraffic.com">TheAirTraffic</a> - A
community-driven ADS-B aggregator dedicated to keeping the air-tracking
data on their site open and unfiltered.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.planespotters.net">PlaneSpotters.net</a> - A
civil aviation database and aggregator with a large collection of
aircraft photos and information.</li>
<li><a href="https://plane.watch">Plane.watch</a> - A community hosted
flight tracker.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.live-military-mode-s.eu">www.live-military-mode-s.eu</a>
- A community driven flight tracker that is focused at tracking military
aircraft.</li>
<li><a
href="https://adsb.chaos-consulting.de">adsb.chaos-consulting.de</a> - A
non-commercial tracker for flights, ships, and radiosondes managed by
enthusiasts. Focuses on the contributions of individual feeding
stations.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="non-profits">Non-profits</h3>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://opensky-network.org">Opensky Network</a> - 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.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="commercial">Commercial</h3>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://flightaware.com">FlightAware</a><a href="#fn1"
class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1" role="doc-noteref"><sup>1</sup></a> -
An American multinational technology company that provides real-time,
historical, and predictive flight tracking data and products.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.flightradar24.com">FlightRadar24</a><a
href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"
role="doc-noteref"><sup>2</sup></a> - A Swedish internet-based service
that shows real-time aircraft flight tracking information on a map.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.radarbox.com">RadarBox</a><a href="#fn3"
class="footnote-ref" id="fnref3" role="doc-noteref"><sup>3</sup></a> - A
Tampa-based global flight tracking and data services company that offers
worldwide commercial and general aviation flight tracking.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.adsbexchange.com/">ADS-B Exchange</a> - 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 <a
href="https://www.jetnet.com/">JETNET</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://planefinder.net">PlaneFinder.net</a><a href="#fn4"
class="footnote-ref" id="fnref4" role="doc-noteref"><sup>4</sup></a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.avdelphi.com">AvDelphi</a> - An aviation data
and services company that shows airframes, registrations, types,
airports and flights, radar and nav points, and owner and flight
histories.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.radarvirtuel.com">RadarVirtuel</a> - A flight
data collector that offers premium features. Its primary focus is
collecting information about traffic around smaller airports
worldwide.</li>
</ul>
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<h3 id="other">Other</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://app.airframes.io/">Airframes.io</a> - 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.</li>
<li><a href="https://gcmb.io/adsb/adsb">gcmb.io</a> - ADS-B data from
ABSBHub.org published via the MQTT protocol.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="software">Software</h2>
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<h3 id="general">General</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/wiedehopf/readsb">readsb</a> - ADS-B
decoder swiss knife.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090">dump1090</a> - A
simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/mik3y/flightmon">flightmon</a> - Simple
command-line “GUI” for showing current dump1090/readsb data.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts/plane-alert-db">sdr-enthusiasts/plane-alert-db</a>
- A list of exciting aircraft - Governments, Dictators, Military,
Historical and just plain odd.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/junzis/pyModeS">junzis/pyModeS</a> - A
python decoder for Mode S and ADS-B signals.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="feeding">Feeding</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder">sdr-enthusiasts/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder</a>
- All-in-one ADSB container with readsb, tar1090, graphs1090, autogain,
multi-feeder, and mlat-hub built in.</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/adsbfi/adsb-fi-scripts">adsbfi/adsb-fi-scripts</a>
- Easy to use feeder install script for feeding to adsb.fi.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/adsblol/feed">adsblol/feed</a> - Easy to
use, container-based MLAT/ADS-B/ACARS/VDL2 multi feed client. Powered by
<a href="https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts">SDR-Enthusiasts</a>
images.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="visualisation">Visualisation</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090">wiedehopf/tar1090</a>
- A great way to view your ADS-B data.</li>
<li><a href="https://grafana.com/">Grafana</a> - Open source analytics
and monitoring solution for every database.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="browser-extensions">Browser extensions</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/radaratlas/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja">RadarAtlas</a>
- An ADSB &amp; tar1090 add on that makes it fun and accessible to track
the most interesting aircraft in the world.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="apps">Apps</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/d4rken/adsb-meta-tracker">d4rken/adsb-meta-tracker</a>
- An android ADS-B Meta Tracker that shows metadata about ADS-B
aggregators.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="social">Social</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/kx1t/docker-planefence">docker-planefence</a> -
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).</li>
<li><a
href="https://github.com/Jxck-S/plane-notify">Jxck-S/plane-notify</a> -
Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using OpenSky or
ADS-B Exchange data.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="hardware">Hardware</h2>
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<h3 id="sbc">SBC</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/">Rasbpberry Pi</a> - Small
single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom.</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5.html">Orange
Pi</a> - Single-board computers created using OS cost-effective
hardware.</li>
<li><a href="https://banana-pi.org/">Banana Pi</a> - Single-bard
computers created by a Chinese open-source hardware community.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="receivers">Receivers</h3>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://flightaware.store/collections/radio-dongles">FlightAware
ADS-B USB receivers</a> - ADS-B USB receivers made by FlightAware.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.radarbox.com/store">AirNav RadarBox ADS-B USB
receivers</a> - ADS-B USB receivers made by RadarBox.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/">RTL-SDR
DONGLES</a> - A premium RTL-SDR dongle provider focused on maintaining
fair retail pricing.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="filters">Filters</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Warning</strong> Some ADS-B USB receivers already contain an
onboard filter.</p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://flightaware.store/collections/signal-filters">FlightAware
Signal filters</a> - Different signal filters made by FlightAware.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="antennas">Antennas</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://vinnant.sk/">Vinnant antennas</a> - Specialized
premium antennas made in Slovakia.</li>
<li><a href="https://dpdproductions.com/">DPD antennas</a> -
High-quality antennas for various radio services produced in the
USA.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="follow">Follow</h2>
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<p><strong>TODO:</strong> Please <a
href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb/pulls">create a pull
request</a> if you know people in the ADS-B space that are worth
following.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Who else should we <a
href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb/issues/new?assignees=&amp;labels=&amp;template=suggestion.yaml">be
following</a>?</p>
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<p><strong><a href="#contents">⬆ back to top</a></strong></p>
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<h2 id="contributing">Contributing</h2>
<p>Contributions of any kind are welcome 💙! Please check out the <a
href="contributing.md">contributing guidelines</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><img
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<h3 id="contributors">Contributors</h3>
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<p>This project exists thanks to all the people <a
href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb/graphs/contributors">that
contributed</a>!</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb/graphs/contributors">
<img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=rickstaa/awesome-adsb" />
</a> </br> </br></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/rickstaa/awesome-adsb">adsb.md
Github</a></p>
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role="doc-endnotes">
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<ol>
<li id="fn1"><p>Adheres to the <a href="https://www.faa.gov/">FAA</a>s
<a href="https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd/request">Aircraft Tail Number
Blocking/Unblocking list</a> list. Therefore, the data found on this
platform is filtered and may not include all data found on other
aggregators.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back"
role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
<li id="fn2"><p>Adheres to the <a href="https://www.faa.gov/">FAA</a>s
<a href="https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd/request">Aircraft Tail Number
Blocking/Unblocking list</a> list. Therefore, the data found on this
platform is filtered and may not include all data found on other
aggregators.<a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-back"
role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
<li id="fn3"><p>Adheres to the <a href="https://www.faa.gov/">FAA</a>s
<a href="https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd/request">Aircraft Tail Number
Blocking/Unblocking list</a> list. Therefore, the data found on this
platform is filtered and may not include all data found on other
aggregators.<a href="#fnref3" class="footnote-back"
role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
<li id="fn4"><p>Adheres to the <a href="https://www.faa.gov/">FAA</a>s
<a href="https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd/request">Aircraft Tail Number
Blocking/Unblocking list</a> list. Therefore, the data found on this
platform is filtered and may not include all data found on other
aggregators.<a href="#fnref4" class="footnote-back"
role="doc-backlink">↩︎</a></p></li>
</ol>
</section>