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Aircraft ADS data can be used to map winds

by jitbit on 8/13/21, 9:35 PM with 2 comments

• by ledauphin on 8/13/21, 11:01 PM

  I've been wondering about this for a while. As a pilot myself, I often wish for higher fidelity information about the winds aloft. But once I'm flying, I have essentially perfect information about the relative wind everywhere I go.

  It's the aggregation that seems to be missing - current governmental winds aloft products update only a few times a day and frequently don't seem to be very accurate.

  It would be very cool if we could build something approaching a real-time, general purpose tool with this approach. I imagine the data density is one of the bigger challenges.

• by codezero on 8/13/21, 10:16 PM

  This is so cool, I love seeing people derive interesting remote sensing data from nonstandard sources!