ADS-B

Everything you want to know about ADS-B reception, decoding and sharing.

A excellent ADS-B hardware guide written by the community.

FlightAware's ADS-B setup tutorial.

A guide explaining the difference between 978 and 1090 MHz transponders.

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

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

A one-stop resource for all aero-related information and a community-driven aggregator for aero-feed data legally dedicated to the public interest.

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.

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.

A community-driven ADS-B aggregator dedicated to keeping the air-tracking data on their site open and unfiltered.

A civil aviation database and aggregator with a large collection of aircraft photos and information.

A community hosted flight tracker.

A community driven flight tracker that is focused at tracking military aircraft.

A non-commercial tracker for flights, ships, and radiosondes managed by enthusiasts. Focuses on the contributions of individual feeding stations.

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.

[^1] - An American multinational technology company that provides real-time, historical, and predictive flight tracking data and products.

[^1] - A Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time aircraft flight tracking information on a map.

[^1] - A Tampa-based global flight tracking and data services company that offers worldwide commercial and general aviation flight tracking.

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.

[^1] - 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.

An aviation data and services company that shows airframes, registrations, types, airports and flights, radar and nav points, and owner and flight histories.

A flight data collector that offers premium features. Its primary focus is collecting information about traffic around smaller airports worldwide.

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.

ADS-B data from ABSBHub.org published via the MQTT protocol.

ADS-B decoder swiss knife.

A simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices.

Simple command-line "GUI" for showing current dump1090/readsb data.

A list of exciting aircraft - Governments, Dictators, Military, Historical and just plain odd.

A python decoder for Mode S and ADS-B signals.

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

All-in-one ADSB container with readsb, tar1090, graphs1090, autogain, multi-feeder, and mlat-hub built in.

Easy to use feeder install script for feeding to adsb.fi.

Easy to use, container-based MLAT/ADS-B/ACARS/VDL2 multi feed client. Powered by SDR-Enthusiasts images.

A great way to view your ADS-B data.

Open source analytics and monitoring solution for every database.

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

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).

Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using OpenSky or ADS-B Exchange data.

Small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom.

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

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

ADS-B USB receivers made by FlightAware.

ADS-B USB receivers made by RadarBox.

A premium RTL-SDR dongle provider focused on maintaining fair retail pricing.

Different signal filters made by FlightAware.

Specialized premium antennas made in Slovakia.

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