Radarcape:Software Features Major2

Radarcape Software Features (Major Release 2)

Since March 2017, we provide Major Release 2. Currently this page describes the differences to Radarcape:Software_Features of Major 1, which all are included in Major 2 with only minor changes, but a lot of add-ons and enhancements. Please read across Software_Features for a first overview.

Key Features

This is a brief summary of all new features.

• Radarcape MLAT:
  • high precision location of Mode-S and ADS-B aircraft
  • update rate 1/sec
• latency app. 1.5 seconds
• New features within Radarcape web interface:
  • New responsive web design optimized for web browsers on desktop and mobile devices, filter configuration extended to hex id and track length
• New features within Radarcape software:
  • Radarcape is now able to support native piAware from FlightAware in the background as fully featured feeder and can read back MLAT results in order to display them in aircraft list, 2D and KML maps
  • Aircaft location and flight data are stored and accessible separately for ADS-B, Radarcape MLAT and FlightAware MLAT
  • Full performance feeder for Opensky Network
  • Automatic update of flight route and base station database
  • BDS register data (Extdata) free of extra charges
  • Signal level available converted to dBm
• Sharing groups (to come):
  • Several Radarcapes can be combined into a sharing network
• Support for Planeplotter Mobile:
  • PPm can be used to display single Radarcape or sharing groups data through local connection or connection using our MLAT server
• 2 Channel Radarcape
  • Antenna Diversity
  • Dual Antenna systems

Radarcape Multilateration Server

• Mulitlateration posisiton estimation is possible with at least 3 Radarcape that share a common air space
  • High precision MLAT results returning location, speed, heading and vertical rate
  • MLAT results are propagated within the private sharing group
  • Very low latency: Results are returned once per second with an latency of app. 1.5sec.
  • No need for ADS-B aircraft as calibration references
  • High accuracy for even a single position estimation, enhanced with a highly sophisticated, adapting Kalman filter.
  • MLAT results are also available for ADS-B aircraft, for example to verify their actual position or in case of spoofing
  • Server/client connection is authorized and encrypted by TLS key pairs
• MLAT server provides data streams in the same way as every Radarcape (not provided for raw formats, e.g. 10002-10006)
  • Any software which reads Radarcape data can read a combination of several on the server