ADS-B receiver with gr-air-modes and Google Earth¶

In this example, we propose to demodulate ADS-B transponders thanks to a module available at https://github.com/bistromath/gr-air-modes. Its installation can be performed thanks to PyBombs which should be already installed if you followed our installation guide. In your PyBombs directory, issue the following instruction:

sudo ./pybombs install gr-air-modes
sudo ldconfig

You can start decoding live signals from airplanes with the following instruction:

modes_rx -A RX2 -K aircrafts.kml

The output file aircraft.kml can be interpreted by Google Earth (Add > Network File).