VIvinnyglennon·May 25, 2023Submission
IQTLabs/SkyScan: Automatically photograph planes that fly by
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SkyScan
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SkyScan
Automatically photograph planes that fly by!
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| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2022 | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2022 | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2022 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2022 | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2022 | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2022 | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2022 | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2023 | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2023 | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2023 | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourceshttps://skybot.cam/ (see also https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan) and might be of interest to you?
In Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?Definitely - Let me build a little better dataset. I need to augment a bit because it was false detecting on some of the contrails.
I built some scripts to also start building a model that can classify the different aircraft models. One of the interesting things with this, is that you get really accurate labels... probably better than what a human could do for images of this size.
https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan/tree/main/ml-model
In I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my houseDoing a vision only approach would be really cool. A lot of the interesting planes do not have their ADS-B transponder on. The two systems could actually work well together. My system ends up generating a really nice, labeled dataset. I put some initial scripts / notebooks together for building ML models that can classify the different types of aircraft.
https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan/tree/main/ml-model/script...
In I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my houseFeels like the website-about page: http://skybot.cam/about is a much better link than a tweet.. loaded with details. For example:
- Most planes are passing at over 30,000'
- It's using a Costar RISE 4260 camera /w built in heater
- It leverages SkyScan by IQT labs[0]
- It leverages Azure custom vision API[1]
[0]: https://github.com/IQTLabs/SkyScan
[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
In I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house