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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.
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.
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The aggregators below are displayed per category based on the number of feeders on 17-01-2026. 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.
The mission of Airplanes.Live is to aggregate and provide access to a comprehensive repository of unfiltered aviation data. Offers map and free API.
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 community-driven flight tracker with hundreds of feeders worldwide that provides open and unfiltered access to worldwide air traffic data.
A completely open-source and community-driven flight tracker that displays and provides [ODbL-licensed](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/) data via a [free API](https://api.adsb.lol/) as well as [free historical data](https://github.com/adsblol/globe_history).
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.
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](https://www.jetnet.com/).
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.
[^1]: Adheres to the FAA's Aircraft Tail Number Blocking/Unblocking list list. Therefore, the data found on this platform is filtered and may not include all data found on other aggregators.
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](https://github.com/sdr-enthusiasts) images.
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.
A great way to view your ADS-B data.
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.
Open source analytics and monitoring solution for every database.
An Android ADS-B Meta Tracker that shows metadata about ADS-B aggregators.
An iOS app that turns your tar1090 or readsb instance into a mobile flight tracker.
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.
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](https://adsb.lol/) initiative.
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.
Warning
Some ADS-B USB receivers already contain an onboard filter.
Specialized premium antennas made in Slovakia.
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?