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Standing on the Shoulder's of Giants
Oh sure, Decentrafly would be the epitome of moral integrity if we prattled on about the importance of open data while secretly running our operation on proprietary software, wouldn't we? We're actually so proud to announce that our ENTIRE system is built upon open source software developed by hardworking volunteers in the aviation and software-defined radio community. Our Decentrafly software builds upon readsb and Tar1090 extensively, and without these we would not be where we are.
Our goal as a company will be to actively contribute to those open source projects on a regular basis. That's right, you could actually download every single piece of our system from public sources and run a site just like ours, but you won't be Decentrafly! And don't forget, you'd even get the added bonus of paying for your own data hosting bills. How generous of us!
Who wants to use fancy, hard-to-understand software? Not us at Decentrafly!
readsb - that's just a short way of saying "decoder or reader of ADS-B data". Readsb inputs data from a software defined radio to convert raw signal into data which tar1090 can handle.
tar1090 - TAR probably stands for something specific but "Tracks and Ranges" is how to think about the software. The 1090 is the MHz frequency at which ADS-B Out operates, for larger aircraft. Put it all together and you have Tracks and Ranges for 1090 MHz, a browser based map for displaying the readsb data.
mlat-client and mlat-server - an excellent triangulation software for determining the position of mode-s transmitters using ground stations synced using ADS-B messages.
