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A curated list of awesome ASD-B tools, projects, docker images, resources and other shiny things 📡.
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.
- ADS-B docker guide - Everything you want to know about ADS-B reception, decoding and sharing.
- ADS-B equipment guide - A excellent ADS-B hardware guide written by the community.
- PiAware ADS-B tutorial - FlightAware's ADS-B setup tutorial.
- ADSB-B transponders guide - A guide explaining the difference between 978 and 1090 MHz transponders.
- The 1090 Megahertz Riddle - Junzi Sun - A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals.
Note The aggregators below are displayed per category based on the number of feeders on 27-02-2023. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- FlightAware1 - An American multinational technology company that provides real-time, historical, and predictive flight tracking data and products.
- FlightRadar241 - A Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time aircraft flight tracking information on a map.
- RadarBox1 - 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.net1 - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- sdr-enthusiasts/docker-adsb-ultrafeeder - All-in-one ADSB container with readsb, tar1090, graphs1090, autogain, multi-feeder, and mlat-hub built in.
- adsbfi/adsb-fi-scripts - Easy to use feeder install script for feeding to adsb.fi.
- adsblol/feed - Easy to use, container-based MLAT/ADS-B/ACARS/VDL2 multi feed client. Powered by SDR-Enthusiasts images.
- wiedehopf/tar1090 - A great way to view your ADS-B data.
- Grafana - Open source analytics and monitoring solution for every database.
- d4rken/adsb-meta-tracker - An android ADS-B Meta Tracker that shows metadata about ADS-B aggregators.
- 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.
- 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.
- FlightAware ADS-B USB receivers - ADS-B USB receivers made by FlightAware.
- AirNav RadarBox ADS-B USB receivers - ADS-B USB receivers made by RadarBox.
- RTL-SDR DONGLES - A premium RTL-SDR dongle provider focused on maintaining fair retail pricing.
Warning Some ADS-B USB receivers already contain an onboard filter.
- FlightAware Signal filters - Different signal filters made by FlightAware.
- Vinnant antennas - Specialized premium antennas made in Slovakia.
- DPD antennas - High-quality antennas for various radio services produced in the USA.
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?
Contributions of any kind are welcome 💙! Please check out the contributing guidelines.
This project exists thanks to all the people that contributed!