Last Christmas I got my dad a Raspberry PI with a ADB-S reciever for collecting and sending data to https://www.flightradar24.com/ that allows you to track and view flights. When you set up a reciever you get access to their business account which was the actual present and allows my dad to work out which planes are flying overhead while hes sat out in the garden.

I was quite interested in the data and for the first time started to look at some 3D geospatial data one evening, in particular setting up the infrastructure for collecting that data.

Im sure there are better ways to do it but below is the way I put it together, it allows for a scalable batch process driven analysis which does not require a database (of sorts) and some simple serverless technology in AWS.

Feel free to explore the Notebook below of how I set up the system and how I analysed the data or jump straight to the PyDeck Visualisation example at https://blog.stuart-gordon.co.uk/notebooks/flight_tracks.html

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