ADS-B-plot

A simple script for plotting the flight path of aircraft from ADS-B packet data

Demonstration

Demo

Usage:

I'm using Tedsluis's modified Dump1090:

https://github.com/tedsluis/dump1090

And i'm also using his socket30003 perl scripts, which clean up the data a bit:

https://github.com/icthieves/dump1090.socket30003

Basic workflow:

• start dump1090

• capture data to a file (Option 1: use socket3003.pl) remember to edit socket30003.cfg to change the save location!

./socket30003.pl

• capture the data to a file (Option 2: loses no data, but much noisier)

sudo wget -O - -q http://localhost:30003 >> /path/to/file.csv

Note: this command safely appends to a file (>>), you can run it multiple times and it will pick up where it left off.

• collect a day or two's worth of data

• If using Option 2, then run socket3003.pl from Tedluis' perl scripts and point it at your CSV instead. (Note: my pull request that adds this feature has not yet been merged, but my fork of Ted's scripts is available here) Don't forget to edit socket30003.cfg!

• After running socket30003.pl (either directly or on a CSV), You'll have a file named something like dump1090-127_0_0_2-170627 in the directory set in socket30003.cfg

• now, you can point ADS-B-Plot at dump1090-127_0_0_2-170627 with:

./adsbplot -f /path/to/dump1090-127_0_0_2-170627.txt

The file extension doesn't matter. It's still a CSV

Dependencies:

MatPlotLib

NumPy

SciPy