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Awesome ADS-B

📡 A curated list of awesome ASD-B tools, projects, images, resources and other shiny things.

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This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.

Docs and Quickstarts

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.

Books and Articles

The 1090 Megahertz Riddle - Junzi Sun

A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals.

ADS-B Aggregators >Open source orientated

airplanes.live

The mission of Airplanes.Live is to aggregate and provide access to a comprehensive repository of unfiltered aviation data. Offers map and free API.

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.fi

A community-driven flight tracker with hundreds of feeders worldwide that provides open and unfiltered access to worldwide air traffic data.

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.

ADS-B Aggregators >Community driven

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.

In 2 lists

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.

ADS-B Aggregators >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.

In 2 lists

ADS-B Aggregators >Commercial

FlightAware

An American multinational technology company that provides real-time, historical, and predictive flight tracking data and products.

In 2 lists

FlightRadar24

A Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time aircraft flight tracking information on a map.

In 3 lists

RadarBox

A Tampa-based global flight tracking and data services company that offers worldwide commercial and general aviation flight tracking.

In 2 lists

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.

ADS-B Aggregators >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.

adsb_actions

Python tool to detect, act on, and visualize ADS-B traffic and events.

Software >Feeding

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.

adsb.im

Simple to use ADS-B Feeder Images. Setup a single board computer (such as Raspberry Pi) to receive and share aircraft ADS-B position reports without command line/terminal skills required. Allows sharing data with both open-source and commercial flight tracking websites.

Software >Visualisation

wiedehopf/tar1090

A great way to view your ADS-B data.

amnesica/BelugaProject

A web application that displays data of one or multiple, local ADS-B feeders and AIS-data along with additional information on a map interface in the browser.

Grafana

Open source analytics and monitoring solution for every database.

In 11 listsDetails

Software >Apps

d4rken/adsb-meta-tracker

An Android ADS-B Meta Tracker that shows metadata about ADS-B aggregators.

AirPing

An iOS app that turns your tar1090 or readsb instance into a mobile flight tracker.

Software >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.

ADS-B Derived Data

aircraft-flight-schedules

Open-source datasets featuring global, high-level flight schedules extracted from worldwide aircraft ADS-B position transmissions (2024+ onwards). Covers all flights globally as long as within coverage of the ADSBlol initiative.

Hardware >SBC

Raspberry Pi

Small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom.

In 7 listsDetails

Orange Pi

Single-board computers created using OS cost-effective hardware.

Banana Pi

Single-bard computers created by a Chinese open-source hardware community.

Hardware >Receivers

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.

In 2 lists

Hardware >Filters

FlightAware Signal filters

Different signal filters made by FlightAware.

Hardware >Antennas

Vinnant antennas

Specialized premium antennas made in Slovakia.

DPD antennas

High-quality antennas for various radio services produced in the USA.

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