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ADS-B Exchange

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ADSBexchange.com, LLC
Type of businessDomestic LLC
FoundedMarch 17, 2016
HeadquartersFountain Hills, Arizona, United States
Area servedWorldwide
Key peopleDan Streufert
James Stanford
IndustryAircraft Tracking
Websiteadsbexchange.com
LaunchedAugust 5, 2016 (2016-08-05)
Current statusActive

ADS-B Exchange (often stylized as "ADSBExchange") is the world's largest source of unfiltered flight ADS-B data. ADS-B Exchange is run by a team of volunteers as a or cooperative or coop in where anyone who sets up a feeder to collect data is also allowed to view the combined data for free. Commercial users are charged a fee to help support the costs of collecting and storing the data.

The software used to collect data, run the website, and run feeders is all opensource software and all changes are released to the public.

Website[edit]

The Website originally was based on the open sourced Virtual Radar Server (VRS) software, but due to heavy resources required to support thousands of simultaneous users, it was changed over to a "tar1090" interface in early 2020[1].

Applications[edit]

A number of third party applications that use ADS-B Exchange data are available, including OpenADSB for IOS[2] and ADSB Flight Tracker for Android[3].

Commercial services[edit]

Live and Historical Data[edit]

ADS-B Exchange provides free API service to all feeders for use in non-commercial projects. It also provides paid API access to a number of commercial organizations, the revenue from which is used to offset server and equipment costs.[4]

Live Fleet Tracking[edit]

ADS-B Exchange offers special support to businesses, airports, and flight schools that wish to track their fleet of aircraft on a display board or special website if they are willing to host a feeder.

No Filtering[edit]

Because ADS-B Exchange does not use any FAA sources to collect flight tracking data,[5] it is not legally bound to honor any blocking requests and it has a strict policy that it will not block any aircraft unless presented with an appropriate court order.[6] Due to this policy, most Private, Public, and Military aircraft that are blocked on other tracking sites, are, in fact, visible on ADS-B Exchange (assuming they are able to be tracked in the first place).

Popular resource[edit]

Due to the completely-unfiltered nature of the data it provides, ADS-B Exchange is very popular with Journalists[5][7][8], Independent Researchers[9],Hedgefund Market Analysts[10], and Military Enthusiasts[11].

Some other examples of unfiltered data being invaluable:

  • Discovering that a hedge fund billionaire escaped from New York and went to New Zealand on his private plane, just as COVID-19 was taking hold in the US[12]
  • Tracking a US CBP Predator Done circling over Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests in the United States[13]
  • Noticing "US government spy planes" flying over George Floyd protests in the United States[14]

Feeders[edit]

ADS-B Exchange collects data through a worldwide network of volunteer feeders who use inexpensive hardware, generally consisting of a Raspberry Pi and a Software Defined Radio (SDR) receiver [15][16] to receive ADS-B signals in their area and send it to central servers to be combined with others to form a live worldwide image of aircraft in flight.

Partnerships[edit]

ADS-B Exchange partners with C4ADS[17][18] to support its mission to produce data-driven reporting to understand, prevent, and mitigate global conflict.

ADS-B Exchange is also the data source used by Dictator Alerts[19] to track the aircraft of authoritarian regimes all over the world.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "ADSBEXCHANGE NOW USING TAR1090: HISTORICAL FLIGHT TRACKS, MILITARY AIRCRAFT FILTERS AND MORE". RTL-SDR.COM. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  2. ↑ "OpenADSB iPhone and iPad app". OpenADSB. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  3. ↑ "Android ADS-B Flight Tracker with 3D Aircraft Display". RTL-SDR.COM. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  4. ↑ "Accessing Data Collected by ADS-B Exchange". ADS-B Exchange. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Planespotting: A Guide to Tracking Aircraft Around the World". Global Investigative Journalism Network. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  6. ↑ "Legal and Privacy - Removal of Information or Aircraft Data". ADS-B Exchange. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  7. ↑ "Flight data from Jeffrey Epstein's private jets show a lavish travel schedule as the walls closed in". INSIDER. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  8. ↑ "What's up with this mystery plane circling Stittsville?". CBC. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  9. ↑ "Estimating aviation's CO2 emissions through Real-Time Big Data". aeriaA. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  10. ↑ "Hedge Funds Track Private Jets to Find the Next Mega-Deal". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  11. ↑ "A Beginner's Guide To Flight Tracking". Bellingcat. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  12. ↑ Peterson, Becky; Wang, Angela. "Hedge fund billionaire John Griffin's private jet fled to New Zealand just as coronavirus hit the US". Business Insider. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  13. ↑ Keobler, Jason; Cox, Joseph; Pearson, Jordan. "VICE - Customs and Border Protection Is Flying a Predator Drone Over Minneapolis". www.vice.com.
  14. ↑ CNN, Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace. "US government spy planes monitored George Floyd protests". CNN.
  15. ↑ "How to feed". ADS-B Exchange. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  16. ↑ "Setting Up an ADSB-Exchange Feeder". Electronics etc... Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  17. ↑ "Public Data and Anticorruption Research". C4ADS. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  18. ↑ "Come for the company formation. Stay for the beaches!". occrp technologies. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  19. ↑ "How it works". Dictator Alert. Retrieved 2020-02-18.

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