Computer vision / Open source experiment
Aircraft Detector
A Raspberry Pi and camera experiment for identifying aircraft against the sky.
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01 / The problem
What had to change
A small edge device needs to separate aircraft from a changing sky background with limited compute.
02 / The constraints
What the system had to respect
- The system runs on Raspberry Pi hardware.
- Outdoor light and cloud conditions change continuously.
- The experiment needs a simple path from camera input to detection output.
03 / The build
What I made
- A Picamera2 and OpenCV workflow for motion and contrast detection.
- Tracked sightings stored in SQLite, with an optional video-streaming web dashboard.
- Optional ADS-B correlation when a compatible receiver is connected.
04 / The result
The useful change
The build creates a compact test bed for edge-based aircraft detection work.