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Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes... by eggy on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:40PM (#30043098)
A thought experiment leapt to mind on how one would triangulate (septangulate!) your location based on heading, time, flight information, and their intersections. I suppose you could get within a 100 meters? Very cool photos! When I lived in Macau a while back, I used to listen to the Hong Kong Airport tower on my SDR and try to link it to flight data, but at the time (2011/2012 or so)my connection and the data was not that great, but I could see and hear who was taking off and landing.
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Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes... by robotastic on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:48PM (#30043439)
Totally - I think you could work back where the camera is based. I have the bearing / azimuth of the camera for each photo, so you could look up where each plane was at that timestamp and then project backwards.

I bet you had much better aircraft flying out of Hong Kong!!

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Re:I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes... by eggy on Sunday January 23, 2022 @09:01AM (#30046173)
I was only listening, but it was fun!

I listened to the plane landing that my older children were on when coming to visit me.

What amazes me about your project is to put focus on things we take for granted going over our heads all the time.

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