NagaTejam / java-adsb

Mode S and ADS-B decoding library for Java

java-adsb

This is a Mode S and ADS-B decoding library for Java. It is a product of the OpenSky Network project (http://www.opensky-network.org).

It supports the following Mode S downlink formats:

• Short air-air ACAS (DF 0)
• Short altitude reply (DF 4)
• Short identify reply (DF 5)
• All-call reply (DF 11)
• Long air-air ACAS (DF 16)
• Extended Squitter (DF 17, 18; see ADS-B formats below)
• Military Extended Squitter (DF 19)
• Comm-B altitude reply (DF 20)
• Comm-B identify reply (DF 21)
• Comm-D Extended Length Message (DF >24)

Currently it supports the following ADS-B formats:

• Identification messages
• Velocity over ground messages
• Airborne Position messages (including global and local CPR)
• Surface Position messages (including global and local CPR)
• Operational status reports (airborne and surface)
• Aircraft status reports (emergency/priority, TCAS RA)

The Comm-B registers, Comm-D data link and military ES are not parsed. Comm-B and D will follow soon.

The formats are implemented according to RTCA DO-260B, i.e. ADS-B Version 2. Most message formats of ADS-B Version 1 are upward compatible. Please check the API documentation of the message formats for differences. The ADS-B version of transponders can be obtained in Aircraft Operational Status reports (type code 31; OperationalStatusMsg.getVersion()).

Note: format type code 29 (target state and status information) is missing since it's virtually non-existent in the current ADS-B deployment.

Packaging

This is a Maven project. You can simply generate a jar file with mvn package. All the output can afterwards be found in the target directory. There will be two jar files

• libadsb-2.0.jar contains libadsb, only. You should use this in your projects
• libadsb-2.0-fat.jar is packaged with all dependencies to read AVRO files. You should use it to decode OpenSky Avro dumps.

Maven Central

We have also published this project on Maven Central. Just include the following dependency in your project:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.opensky-network</groupId>
  <artifactId>libadsb</artifactId>
  <version>2.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Example decoding of position message

import org.opensky.libadsb.*;

// ...

// Example messages for position (47.0063,8.0254)
ModeSReply odd = Decoder.genericDecoder("8dc0ffee58b986d0b3bd25000000");
ModeSReply even = Decoder.genericDecoder("8dc0ffee58b9835693c897000000");

// test for message types
if (odd.getType() != ADSB_AIRBORN_POSITION ||
    even.getType() != ADSB_AIRBORN_POSITION) {
    System.out.println("Airborne position reports expected!");
    System.exit(1);
}

// now we know it's an airborne position message
AirbornePositionMsg odd_pos = (AirbornePositionMsg) odd;
AirbornePositionMsg even_pos = (AirbornePositionMsg) even;
double[] lat_lon = odd_pos.getGlobalPosition(even_pos);
double altitude = odd_pos.getAltitude();

System.out.println("Latitude  = "+ lat_lon[0]+ "°\n"+
                   "Longitude = "+ lat_lon[1]+ "°\n"+
                   "Altitude  = "+ altitude+ "m");

// ...

A complete working decoder can be found in ExampleDecoder.java. A demonstration how this decoder can be used is provided in OskySampleReader.java. It reads, decodes, and prints serialized ADS-B messages from avro-files with the OpenSky schema. A sample of such data and the schema is provided in the osky-sample repository.