 ADS-B stands for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast. It is a system in which electronic equipment onboard an aircraft automatically broadcasts the precise location of the aircraft via a digital data link.
As described in the official readme of the tool, Dump1090 is a Mode S decoder specifically designed for RTLSDR devices.
The main features are:
- Robust decoding of weak messages. With mode1090, many users observed improved range compared to other popular decoders.
- Network support—TCP30003 stream (MSG5), raw packets, HTTP.
- Embedded HTTP server that displays the currently detected aircrafts on Google Maps.
- Single-bit error correction using 24-bit CRC.
- Ability to decode DF11 and DF17 messages.
- Ability to decode DF formats such as DF0, DF4, DF5, DF16, DF20, and DF21, where the checksum is XOR-ed with the ICAO address by brute...
