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# ADSB Flight Data

> Comprehensive data pipeline for downloading, processing, and visualizing ADS-B flight tracking data with regional GeoJSON generation

# ADSB Flight Data

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## ADSB Flight Data Processing and GeoJSON Visualisation Pipeline

A comprehensive data pipeline that downloads, processes, and visualizes ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) flight tracking data from June 2024. The system extracts flight traces from GitHub releases, processes them into a DuckDB database, and generates regional GeoJSON files for flight path visualisation.

## Libraries Needed

### Core Libraries

* **os** - File system operations
* **requests** - HTTP requests for downloading data
* **tarfile** - Archive extraction
* **gzip** - Compressed file handling
* **json** - JSON data parsing

### Database & Data Processing

* **duckdb** - High-performance analytical database
* **pandas** - Data manipulation and analysis
* **numpy** - Numerical computing

### Utilities

* **datetime / time** - Date/time operations
* **pathlib.Path** - Modern path handling
* **collections.defaultdict** - Data structures
* **multiprocessing.Pool** - Parallel processing
* **concurrent.futures** - Asynchronous execution
* **tempfile** - Temporary file management
* **shutil** - High-level file operations
* **urllib3.util.retry** - HTTP retry strategies
* **requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter** - HTTP session configuration

## Input Files

### GitHub Release Archives

* v2024.06.01-planes-readsb-staging-0 through v2024.06.30-planes-readsb-staging-0

### Compressed JSON Files

* .json.gz, .json files containing flight trace data

### Split TAR Archives

* .tar.aa, .tar.ab, .tar.gz files

### Flight Trace JSON Structure

* **icao** - Aircraft identifier
* **registration** - Aircraft registration
* **trace** - Array of \[timestamp, latitude, longitude, altitude, heading, speed, vertical\_rate]
* **aircraft\_type** - Aircraft model
* **description** - Aircraft description

## Output Files

### DuckDB Database

* **adsb\_june.duckdb, adsb\_dat\_main.duckdb** - Structured flight data storage

### Temporary Parquet Files

Intermediate data storage for parallel processing

### Regional GeoJSON Files

* **north\_america\_flights.geojson**
* **europe\_flights.geojson**
* **asia\_flights.geojson**
* **africa\_flights.geojson**
* **australia\_flights.geojson**
* **oceania\_flights.geojson**
* And other regional flight path visualizations

### Flight Traces Table Schema

* Aircraft metadata (ICAO, registration, type)
* Positional data (latitude, longitude, altitude)
* Movement data (speed, heading, vertical rate)
* Temporal data (timestamps, sequences)

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