AVWX REST API: Intelligence Source Guide
AVWX is a parsing and normalisation layer over official aviation weather: it turns raw METAR and TAF code into structured...
Aviation Intelligence
hexdb.io: Intelligence Source Guide
hexdb.io is the free Mode-S lookup service that most community ADS-B receiver installations call in the background: hex to registration,...
adsbdb: Intelligence Source Guide
adsbdb is a free, keyless API that turns a 24-bit ICAO hex address or a registration into aircraft type, operator...
OpenSky Network / ADS-B: Intelligence Source Guide
OpenSky Network is a non-profit, research-governed ADS-B and Mode S receiver network that publishes live aircraft state vectors and, for...
Radio Callsign: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A callsign is a licensed identity broadcast in the clear. Few identifiers are simultaneously regulated, globally unique and publicly indexed....
Flight Number / Route: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
IMEI / Device Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An IMEI identifies a handset, not a person and not a phone number. Confusing device identity with subscriber identity is...
Cell Tower / Cell ID: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A cell identifier is not a location. It is a piece of network infrastructure with a coverage footprint, and confusing...
Aircraft: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An aircraft carries three identities at once: what is painted on the tail, what the transponder broadcasts, and who actually...
Vehicle Intelligence (VEHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A vehicle is a seventeen-character identifier attached to an engine. Decode it properly and you get the plant, the year,...
