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About AeroScope | Open ADS-B Surveillance Platform
AeroScope is an observer-relative ADS-B airspace surveillance platform built by independent researcher Muhammad Uzair, with open data and published…
ADS-B Coverage and Its Limits | AeroScope
Where AeroScope can and cannot see aircraft. It reads three public ADS-B aggregators, runs no receivers of its own, and coverage follows theirs.
ADS-B Security: Spoofing, Jamming & Attacks Guide
Learn why ADS-B is unauthenticated, the full attack taxonomy (spoofing, jamming, ghost aircraft, message injection or deletion), and how attacks are…
ADS-B Technology Explained | Structure & Limits
See how ADS-B works: the 112-bit Extended Squitter, what each message carries, why altitude is barometric, and how it compares to radar and MLAT…
Adversarial Evaluation of ADS-B Detectors | AeroScope
How AeroScope evaluates its spoof detectors by injecting synthetic ADS-B attacks into real traffic, honest, reproducible metrics. No reinforcement…
AeroScope vs Flightradar24 vs FlightAware | Comparison
Compare AeroScope with Flightradar24, FlightAware, and ADS-B Exchange. Feature-by-feature comparison of the best flight tracking platforms in 2026.
AeroScope: Real-Time Flight Tracker & ADS-B Radar
AeroScope is an observer-relative ADS-B surveillance tool: pick a point, see the aircraft over it, with signal-integrity scoring and stated limits.
AI Access via MCP | Query Live Flight Data | AeroScope
Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to AeroScope's public Model Context Protocol server and query live aircraft over any location on demand,…
Aircraft Squawk Codes Explained | Complete Guide | AeroScope
Learn about aircraft transponder squawk codes. What do 7700, 7600, 7500 mean? Complete guide to emergency and special squawk codes used in aviation.
Aircraft Type Guide | ICAO Type Codes Explained | AeroScope
Look up ICAO aircraft type designators like B738, A320 and C172 in this complete guide, and understand aircraft categories, weight classes and engine…
Airspace Briefings | Plain-Language Alerts | AeroScope
See how AeroScope turns live airspace data into readable briefings using deterministic templates instead of a language model, and the honest…
API Documentation | AeroScope Developer API
AeroScope's REST API and WebSocket docs for developers: over 50 endpoints for flight tracking, threat scoring, drone detection and live data…
Aviation Geofencing Guide | AeroScope
Set up aviation geofences for real-time airspace monitoring, then get instant alerts when aircraft enter, exit or dwell in your defined zones. A…
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Behavioral Baseline Analysis | AeroScope
How AeroScope learns each aircraft's normal pattern-of-life and scores deviations. DBSCAN routes and IsolationForest point anomalies, with consensus…
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Changelog | Release & Incident History | AeroScope
Track material changes to the AeroScope platform: reliability incidents, data-quality fixes and retracted claims, published so behavior changes stay…
Contact | Get in Touch With AeroScope
Contact AeroScope about data errors, API or MCP access, the open research dataset, security disclosure or feed attribution, and what to include in…
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Data Sources & Provenance | AeroScope
Every ADS-B feed, registry and weather source AeroScope uses, how they are de-duplicated and refreshed, and the licensing and attribution behind them.
Detection Beyond ADS-B: Acoustic, RF, Radar & Optical
Learn how acoustic, RF, radar and optical detection compare with ADS-B for spotting non-cooperative aircraft, and why AeroScope stays an ADS-B-only…
Distributed ADS-B Receiver Networks | AeroScope
See how volunteer ADS-B receiver networks build global flight coverage: line-of-sight range limits, feeders, aggregators, multilateration and…
Drone & UAV Detection via ADS-B and Remote ID
Detect drones and UAVs from ADS-B and FAA Remote ID with behavioral heuristics, a transparent confidence score, and an honest account of what it can…
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FAQ | Common Questions About AeroScope Flight Tracking
Find answers to the most common AeroScope questions: where the data comes from, why aircraft disappear, how current it is, and what it must never be…
Features | Real-Time Airspace Surveillance | AeroScope
See everything AeroScope does today: multi-source ADS-B fusion, explainable 0-100 attention scoring, spoofing checks and consensus anomaly detection…
Flight Data for Research | AeroScope Academic Resources
Use AeroScope for aviation research: ADS-B data analysis and flight-pattern studies with CSV, JSON and GeoJSON export, a REST API, and a ready…
Flight Tracker Near Me | Live Aircraft Overhead, Free
A free live flight tracker centerd on your location, not a flight number. See every aircraft overhead with type, operator and altitude, no app needed.
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Ghost Aircraft in ADS-B: What They Are | AeroScope
A ghost aircraft is an ADS-B track with no aircraft behind it. How they are made, why ADS-B has no authentication, and how they are caught in…
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How AeroScope Works | 1090 MHz to a Threat Picture
See how AeroScope turns crowdsourced ADS-B into a live, explainable sky picture: fusing public feeds, scoring attention, and flagging spoofed…
How Flight Tracking Works | Complete Guide | AeroScope
Understand how modern flight tracking works, from primary radar and transponders to ADS-B and satellite surveillance, in this complete beginner's…
How to Build an ADS-B Receiver | DIY Guide | AeroScope
Build your own ADS-B receiver for under $40 using an RTL-SDR dongle, antenna and Raspberry Pi. A step-by-step setup guide for dump1090 or readsb…
How to Detect ADS-B Spoofing | AeroScope
Learn how ADS-B spoofing is detected: ghost aircraft, altitude and velocity tampering, replay attacks, and the integrity checks that expose each one,…
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Is That Aircraft a Threat? | How to Read Your Sky Calmly
Use this calm, practical checklist to judge an aircraft overhead: altitude, track shape, operator and scoring factors, plus ordinary explanations for…
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Known Limitations | What AeroScope Cannot See | AeroScope
Read an honest account of AeroScope's limits: ADS-B-only visibility, volunteer coverage gaps, probabilistic spoof detection, and its safety-critical…
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Live Flight Tracking by Airport | AeroScope
Pick a major airport to see every aircraft overhead in real time: type, operator, altitude and a 0-100 attention score, fused from public ADS-B feeds.
Live GPS Jamming and GNSS Interference Map | AeroScope
Live map of GPS interference reported by aircraft themselves, built from ADS-B navigation accuracy fields. Method and limits stated in full.
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Military Aircraft Tracking | Reading State Flights
Learn how military and state aircraft are identified from public ADS-B: ICAO hex allocations, callsign patterns and tanker or training-flight…
Multi-Source ADS-B Fusion | How AeroScope Merges Feeds
How AeroScope fuses adsb.fi and adsb.lol, with OpenSky as fallback, into one de-duplicated track per aircraft: ICAO hex matching, grid fetching, gaps.
Multi-Source ADS-B Fusion | One Track Per Aircraft
How AeroScope fuses public ADS-B feeds into one de-duplicated track per aircraft, keyed on the ICAO 24-bit address, and what fusion cannot fix.
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Map Layers: Nine Overlays on One Airspace View | AeroScope
The nine data layers AeroScope draws under live traffic, and what each one actually measures.
Active Fire Map Layer: VIIRS Thermal Anomalies and Their Limits | AeroScope
How the active fire overlay works: VIIRS 375 m detection, what confidence really means, why FRP must not be summed, overpass latency, and why a dot may be a gas flare.
Airport Map Layer: OurAirports, ICAO vs IATA, Runway Data | AeroScope
How the airports overlay works: the OurAirports dataset, what the type classes really mean, why ICAO and IATA codes disagree, and what runway records do and do not contain.
SIGMET Map Layer: Hazard Polygons, Validity and Limits | AeroScope
How the SIGMET overlay works: what a SIGMET is in ICAO terms, the hazard categories and their thresholds, validity periods, SIGMET versus AIRMET, and why US convective SIGMETs are not shown.
Earthquake Map Layer: Magnitude Types, Completeness and Revision | AeroScope
How the earthquake overlay works: why moment magnitude replaced Richter, what the M2.5 threshold really implies about global completeness, feed latency, and why magnitudes change after publication.
GNSS Interference Map Layer: How AeroScope Builds It | AeroScope
How the GNSS interference layer works: NIC and NACp thresholds, which aircraft are excluded and why, H3 resolution 4 binning, and what a red hexagon does and does not prove.
Infrared Cloud Map Layer: Band 13, Cloud Tops and Parallax | AeroScope
How the infrared cloud overlay works: what the 10.3 micron clean window band measures, why brightness temperature maps to cloud top height, geostationary parallax, and why Europe has no layer.
Satellite Map Layer: TLEs, SGP4 and GNSS Geometry | AeroScope
How the satellite overlay works: what a two-line element set encodes, why SGP4 accuracy decays with age, the four GNSS constellations and their orbits, and why a navigation site plots them.
AIS Ship Map Layer: Class A vs B, Range Limits, Why It Is Coastal | AeroScope
How the AIS ship overlay works: the VHF physical layer and SOTDMA, Class A versus Class B reporting rates, why terrestrial AIS is line-of-sight limited, and why an aviation site carries a maritime layer at all.
Weather Radar Map Layer: dBZ, Mosaics and Their Gaps | AeroScope
How the weather radar overlay works: what dBZ actually measures, base versus composite reflectivity, why mosaics have holes and artifacts, and why blank does not mean clear.
NIC and NACp Explained: ADS-B Integrity Fields | AeroScope
What NIC and NACp mean in an ADS-B message, in plain language: the value scales, why they fall during GNSS interference, how they differ from SIL.
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Open ADS-B Anomaly Detection Dataset (CC-BY 4.0) | AeroScope
AeroScope ADS-B Anomaly Benchmark v1: 918 labeled records, 4 injected attack types, 38 columns, CC-BY 4.0. CSV and JSONL download with a baseline.
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Platform Status | Live Uptime & Health | AeroScope
Live AeroScope platform status fetched directly from the production API: service health, aircraft currently tracked, data freshness and ML engine…
Pricing and Access Tiers | AeroScope
What each AeroScope tier includes: free public access, free verified researcher access with full dataset export, and paid Pro and Commercial plans.
Privacy Policy | AeroScope
AeroScope privacy policy: what data we collect, how ADS-B data is publicly broadcast, cookie usage, no third-party tracking, and 7-day data retention…
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Security & Responsible Disclosure | AeroScope
AeroScope security posture and vulnerability reporting: transport security, authentication, rate limiting, data handling, and how to report an issue…
Start Here | Find Your Way Around AeroScope
New to AeroScope? Three guided paths, curious about your sky, evaluating the platform, or researching the data, each with a short recommended reading…
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Terms of Service | AeroScope
AeroScope terms of service covering acceptable use, data accuracy disclaimers, limitation of liability, and conditions for using the flight tracking…
Threat & Attention Scoring | AeroScope
See how AeroScope's transparent 0 to 100 attention score works: eight weighted rule-based factors, a worked example, and where the score's limits are.
Trajectory Projection | Aircraft Path Estimation
See how AeroScope projects an aircraft's near-term path with kinematic dead reckoning, why the projection widens into a cone, and where it stops…
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What Helicopter Is Flying Over My House? | Identify It Live
Identify the helicopter overhead: air ambulance, police, news, patrol or training. Check its type and operator in seconds, and see why some never…
What Plane Is Flying Over My House? | AeroScope
See and identify the plane over your house right now: its type, airline, altitude and destination, and whether it is military, a drone or an…
Why Are Military Planes Over My House? | AeroScope
Military aircraft overhead are usually transit routes, low-level training, refuelling tracks or exercises. Learn to identify them in seconds with…
Why Are Planes Flying So Low Over My House? | AeroScope
Usually an approach path, a runway change with the wind, or a working helicopter. How to tell which, and why tracker altitude is not height above…
Why Is a Plane Circling My House? | Read the Pattern
A plane circling overhead is almost always routine survey, training, police, medevac or ATC holding. Identify the pattern and altitude in seconds…
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Zero-Trust API Security | AeroScope
AeroScope's zero-trust API architecture uses capability-based JWT tokens, scoped endpoint access, rate limiting and audit logging. Never trust,…