Overview

adsb-tools is a suite of tools, written in several different languages, for capturing, processing, transmitting, and using ADS-B data.

Components

• adsbus is a network hub and protocol converter for ADS-B messages (written in C)
• Sources (capture/generate data)
• Sinks (consume/use data)
  • adsb-ws takes an ADS-B feed and makes it available via websockets (written in Go)
  • sourcestats takes an ADS-B feed and periodically outputs statistics on message and clock rate (written in Python)
• Protocol/format documentation
  • airspy_adsb (a.k.a. ASAVR)
  • beast
  • json
  • proto (a.k.a. ProtoBuf, Protocol Buffers)
  • raw (a.k.a. AVR)