[HN Gopher] Aircraft ADS data can be used to map winds
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       Aircraft ADS data can be used to map winds
        
       Author : jitbit
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-08-13 21:35 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (traffic-viz.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (traffic-viz.github.io)
        
       | ledauphin wrote:
       | I've been wondering about this for a while. As a pilot myself, I
       | often wish for higher fidelity information about the winds aloft.
       | But once I'm flying, I have essentially perfect information about
       | the relative wind everywhere I go.
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       | It's only the aggregation that seems to be missing - current
       | governmental winds aloft products update only a few times a day
       | and frequently don't seem to be very accurate.
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       | It would be very cool if we could build something approaching a
       | real-time, general purpose tool with this approach. I imagine the
       | data density is one of the bigger challenges.
        
       | codezero wrote:
       | This is so cool, I love seeing people derive interesting remote
       | sensing data from nonstandard sources!
        
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