flight-blender
A standards compliant Network Remote ID and Flight Authorisation server for UTM / U-Space. Also has integrations for consuming geofences and live flight data aggregation and fusing.
Flight Blender
Flight Blender enables you to be compliant with latest regulations on UTM / U-Space in the EU. It gives you:
- an open source Remote ID “display provider” compatible with ASTM Remote ID standard
- an open source implementation of the ASTM USS <-> USS standard and compatible with the EU U-Space regulation for flight authorisation
- ability to consume geo-fences per the ED-269 standard
- a flight traffic feed aggregator that has different modules that can process and relay data around flights and airspace: geo-fence, flight declarations, air-traffic data.
There are different modules that enable this:
- DSS Connectivity: There are modules to connect and read for e.g. Remote ID data from a DSS, Strategic deconfliction / flight authorization
- Flight Tracking: It takes in flight tracking feeds from various sources e.g. ADS-B, live telemetry, Broadcast Remote ID and others and outputs as a single fused JSON feed and submits it to a Display Application e.g. Flight Spotlight to be shown in real-time on a display
- Geofence: A Geofence can be submitted into Flight Blender and consequently transmitted to Spotlight
- Flight Declaration: Future flights up-to 24 hours can be submitted, this support both the ASTM USS <-> USS API and can also be used as a standalone component, for supported DSS APIs see below
Openskies stack
To visualize flight tracking data you can use a complementary appplication like Flight Spotlight. To submit data like Geofences etc. into Flight Blender beyond the API you can use the user interface provided via the accompanying software like Flight Launchpad, for more information see the diagram below.
Installation
Docker and Docker Compose files are available for this software. You can first clone this repository using git clone https://www.github.com/openskies-sh/flight-blender.git and then go to the directory and use docker-compose up command.
This will open up port 8080 and you can post air-traffic data to http://localhost:8080/set_air_traffic and then start the processing.
Technical details
- To begin, review the API Specification to understand the endpoints and the kind of data that you can set in Flight Blender.
- Then take a look at some data formats: Flight tracking data. This file follows the format as specified in the Air-traffic data protocol
Submitting AOI, Flight Declarations and Geofence data
Take a look at sample data below to see the kind of data that can be submitted in Flight Blender
- Area of Interest as a GeoJSON
- Geofence as a GeoJSON, we have converters to convert EuroCAE from ED-269 standard
- Flight Declaration. This file follows the format specified in Flight Declaration Protocol, optionally when using DSS components it supports “operational intent” APIs.