junzis / modes-tutorials

A set of tutorials on decoding Mode-S and ADS-B data

Mode-S Workshop

This repository contains a set of tutorials that helps you to explore and decode common types of Mode-S data.

Tutorials

1_quick_start

A quick view on what kind of useful information contains in ADS-B and Mode-S Comm-B communications.

2_understand_ADS-B_data

ADS-B is the most common open surveillance data. This tutorial walks you through the processing of decoding RAW ADS-B messages using pyModeS library.

3_understand_Comm-B_data

More state information are interrogated by air traffic control secondary surveillance data. These reply messages can be intercepted conveniently using the low-cost receivers. However, the challenge lies in estimating the Comm-B message types. This tutorial walks you through the processes of inferring Comm-B message types, as well as decoding them.

4_explore_trajectory

This turorial provides examples of using pymodes-opensky and traffic libraries to fetch and visualizing surveillance data from opensky-network.

Dependencies

• pyModeS: https://github.com/junzis/pyModeS
• pymodes-opensky: https://github.com/junzis/pymodes-opensky
• traffic: https://github.com/xoolive/traffic