[HN Gopher] I built a system that takes pictures of all the airp...
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I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly
over my house
Author : tosh
Score : 125 points
Date : 2022-01-22 18:48 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| 15characterslon wrote:
| How much does it cost to run this on Azure?
| dt3ft wrote:
| This is very cool, great idea and execution! :)
| chopsuei3 wrote:
| Very slick! Were you using PiAware or listening to ADSB prior to
| this project?
|
| I remember starting a similar project years ago when I got my
| first RTL-SDR adapter - didn't get too far, but probably cheaper
| than this setup
| https://web.archive.org/web/20160228105159/http://simonaubur...
| robotastic wrote:
| Hi! I am the guy behind this, awesome to see it posted here.
| Happy to answer any questions.
|
| To answer a question I saw pop up, I am using the FAA aircraft
| registration data to pull up the extra information about the
| planes. It lists who actually owns the plane, vs who is operating
| it. That is why you see so many banks. Places like Flightaware
| have much better data, but a pricy to look up.
| busheezy wrote:
| If you set up an ADB, Flight Aware will give you an Enterprise
| account. FlightRadar24 also will give you a Business account.
| There is a docker image out there that will let you pump data
| to both services.
| csours wrote:
| Awesome! I live north of Austin-Bergstrom and I quite often see
| planes on final approach. I've thought about doing this, and
| also trying to find a physical site for a telescope or
| telescopes to watch take-offs and landings.
| ytjohn wrote:
| This is absolutely incredible. I have been wanting to do this
| as well, but I was going to approach it from the computer
| vision approach (blueiris and deepstack ai). Or a dedicated
| camera and pythoncv. I never even thought of having cameras
| move to match flightaware data.
|
| A number of planes fly low and when I check flightaware,
| they're not on it. Or there's a plane that could be it, but
| it's flight path is heading East to West 30 miles North of me,
| while this plane came from the South heading North. Also,
| pretty much once a month or so, a pair of A10 Warthogs fly over
| or near our house. Last month, we had a real treat with 4 of
| them directly over the house, better than an air show.
|
| So I'd like to setup 4 cameras on my tower focused skyward and
| have them try to catch clips of planes. I'll be looking at your
| work to see if I can also match those with flightaware.
| cmurf wrote:
| Anyone know what these bank trustee planes are all about?
| dismalpedigree wrote:
| I was wondering the same thing
| ct0 wrote:
| https://www.bankofutah.com/corporate-trust/trust/aircraft-ow...
| 8bitben wrote:
| Many airlines have arrangements where banks purchase the planes
| outright then lease them back in a long-term deal. Helps with
| airlines finances.
| alkonaut wrote:
| Isn't the operator of a flight what shows up in e.g.
| Flightradar and also what you'd typically be most interested
| in, rather than the owner of the aircraft?
| [deleted]
| yeldarb wrote:
| Any interest in sharing the plane dataset you used to train Azure
| Custom Vision with others? Happy to host it on Roboflow Universe
| along with an API to a trained model others can hit to detect
| planes in images.
|
| We've got one detecting planes on the ground but not yet in the
| air! https://universe.roboflow.com/gdit/aerial-airport
| phkahler wrote:
| Did they ever indicate using a model like that? Just plug in an
| ADS-B receiver and they'll broadcast their tail number and
| location to you. Everything else can be looked up.
| tomcat27 wrote:
| so coooool :)
| 0x0000000 wrote:
| This is really neat. I've thought about doing something similar,
| but feared that this is enough information to deduce where one
| lives. Kudos to the author for not only making this, but also
| publishing it
| ryandrake wrote:
| You're not wrong. In 2017, 4chan trolls (in)famously deduced
| the location of (and defaced) Shia Labeouf's "HWNDU" flag
| art/protest project in 37 hours [1] from only a webcam pointed
| at the sky. Never underestimate the capabilities of bored
| people on the Internet with an ax to grind.
|
| 1: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-
| first-...
| solarkraft wrote:
| Arguably more entertaining telling of the story by the
| Internet Historian: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vw9zyxm860Q
| gnabgib wrote:
| Feels like the website-about page: http://skybot.cam/about is a
| much better link than a tweet.. loaded with details. For example:
| - Most planes are passing at over 30,000' - It's using a
| Costar RISE 4260 camera /w built in heater - It leverages
| SkyScan by IQT labs[0] - It leverages Azure custom vision
| API[1]
|
| [0]: https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan [1]:
| https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
| metadat wrote:
| I wonder what the monthly Azure bill is.
|
| Also wondering what the stack would look like for a self-hosted
| version with equivalent or better functionality!
| mro_name wrote:
| It's a hell lot of them. Is this typical?
| Jabbles wrote:
| I think someone who doesn't have many planes flying overhead is
| less likely to build such a system.
| version_five wrote:
| From my experience you are either under a flight lane and a lot
| of planes fly over, or none do. There may be some places
| further north where they are more spread out, but for example I
| used to live just south of the approach to one of the runways
| at my city's airport (maybe 10 miles away so the planes were
| not super low but were already lined up with the runway) and we
| saw a constant stream of them go by. I really enjoyed it to,
| there were lots i could identify readily and sometimes an
| obscure one that I'd jump on flightaware to see what it was. I
| think this is a cool project and wish I had something similar.
|
| Edit: related, I regularly commuted by plane between two
| cities, and my parents live out in the country part way between
| the two. I could regularly see their house out the window of my
| plane, because by chance one of the flight lanes was just north
| of them. So they would have have a lot of traffic going
| overhead, despite being nowhere near an airport. They also have
| less frequent planes go by on great circle routes to europe,
| which is probably what you're imagining thinking about seeing
| planes infrequently.
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| About 5 years ago I started trying to build this exact thing. I
| wrote some code, printed some gears and attached them to servos,
| assembled some hall effect sensors onto the whole thing, and then
| stopped. I had a camera that I could command to an azimuth and an
| elevation. I think it was a PlayStation3 pseye camera. It
| certainly would not have been able to zoom in to the point that
| this one seems to be able to. I was going to use my RTL SDR to
| listen to the ADSB and mount the whole thing on my roof under a
| clear plastic dome.
| [deleted]
| neonate wrote:
| Link to the site: http://skybot.cam/
| [deleted]
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