'SkyBot' that automatically shoots, uploads, and analyzes a large number of airplanes flying over the house



The site 'SkyBot ', where the author says that he made it out of curiosity such as 'How many planes pass over my house?' And 'What kind of plane is it?' Continues to be uploaded. The site offers photos of various planes, and how it made it possible to keep shooting planes all day long, says author Luke Bernd.

SkyBot

http://skybot.cam/





The top page of SkyBot looks like the image below, and anyway, the pictures of the airplane are lined up. You can scroll back and forth to the photos of the past dates, but in just 24 hours on January 23, 2022, nearly 100 photos were taken, and it's hard to see them all.



If you click the triangle icon at the bottom of the photo,

you can see the manufacturer information 'Airbus ' as well as the aircraft number. It is said that this information uses the aircraft code data of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to obtain additional information about the airplane.



Also, if you click on the photo ...



In addition to more detailed information, you can compare multiple photos. Bernd has built a system in which the camera automatically tracks and takes pictures when an airplane approaches, selects the best picture of the airplane, applies light image processing, and saves it. It is said that the ones that are clearly reflected are excerpted and posted. It seems that everything from shooting to data acquisition, image selection and processing, thumbnail creation, and uploading is done automatically.



I often shoot high-altitude objects, but sometimes there are pictures that clearly show the pattern of the aircraft as shown in the image below ...



It's fun just watching a huge number of airplanes, such as finding a cool aircraft with unique colors.



What's amazing about this site is that it's a system that takes 'everything' pictures of planes flying over a house. According to the author, Bernd, by

applying a surveillance technology called Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS–B) , a camera installed at home tracks 'where the aircraft is' and takes accurate photographs. It is said that it is.

All photos are uploaded to Microsoft's cloud storage ' Azure ', and Custom Vision, which allows you to build your own image identifier model, detects whether there is an airplane and where it appears in the photos. Images that do not show the plane will be deleted, and if they do, the part of the plane will be cut out, the illumination will be adjusted, and the image will be uploaded again. From there, the ADS–B identifier is used to automatically obtain information about the airplane from the FAA database and link it to the photo. 'To be honest, I'm surprised that everything works,' Bernd himself said.



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