Display Aircraft in TAK - ADS-B feed to TAK Gateway¶
ADSBCOT is software for monitoring and analyzing aviation surveillance data via the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) ecosystem of products.
For detailed documentation, visit the official documentation.
Features¶
- Converts ADS-B messages to Cursor on Target (CoT) format.
- Retains aircraft track, course, speed vectors and other metadata.
- Compatible with TAK products: ATAK, TAKX, WinTAK, and iTAK.
- Supports multiple ADS-B data aggregators.
- Supports COTS ADS-B hardware receivers.
- Supports over-the-air RF ADS-B data via SDR.
- Runs on Python 3.7+ in both Windows and Linux environments.
Supported ADS-B Aggregators¶
Supported ADS-B Receivers¶
- Piaware
- ADS-B Exchange
- Stratux ADS-B
- Any SDR (RTL-SDR, HackRF, etc.)
Supported ADS-B Decoders¶
Related Projects¶
- AirTAK: A turn-key ADS-B to TAK Gateway solution.
- WarDragon
- StratuxCOT & ADSBXCOT functionality has been merged into ADSBCOT.
The snstac TAK sensor ecosystem¶
Different sensor, same workflow — pick the gateway for your application; most have a matching Cockpit plugin for browser-based management:
| Application | Gateway | Cockpit plugin |
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft via ADS-B (1090 MHz / 978 MHz UAT) | adsbcot | cockpit-adsbcot |
| Ships & vessels via AIS | aiscot | cockpit-aiscot, cockpit-aiscatcher |
| Drone / UAS Remote ID (counter-UAS) | dronecot | cockpit-dronecot |
| Own position via GPS/GNSS | lincot | cockpit-lincot, cockpit-gps |
| Radio direction finding (KrakenSDR) | kraktak | — |
| APRS amateur radio | aprscot | — |
| Weather stations | windtak | — |
| CoT routing / TAK Server bridging | charontak | — |
All gateways are built on PyTAK, speak Cursor on Target (CoT) to ATAK, WinTAK, iTAK, TAK Server, and Mesh SA, ship as signed Debian/RPM packages at snstac.github.io/packages, and come pre-installed on AryaOS, the situational-awareness OS for Raspberry Pi.
Copyright & License¶
Copyright Sensors & Signals LLC https://www.snstac.com
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.