SkyProfile

SkyProfile is a PyQt5 desktop app for querying ADSBexchange globe history for single or multiple aircraft, detecting multi-leg flights, and exporting KML/CSV/JSON/Excel with rich analytics (airports, routes, time buckets, callsigns, FAA metadata).

Key Features

• Date-range query by ICAO hex; optional tail/reg lookup via ADSBx basic aircraft DB.
• Robust leg detection (ground → air → ground) with air/ground flags, altitude/groundspeed heuristics, 90s ground dwell, 20-minute gap handling, and live callsign history.
• Exports (toggle per type): KML Points, KML Routes 2D, KML Routes 3D, Airport Heatmap KML (white dots sized by activity), CSV, JSON, Excel Summary.
• Batch mode with optional Consolidate reports: merges all aircraft into a single set of offline exports (CSV/JSON/KML/Excel). Individual files are suppressed when consolidating.
• Airport matching (nearest within 250 km; synthetic IDs when none) reused across KML and Excel.
• FAA registry lookup for N-number aircraft (local DB in resources/faa_registry).
• GUI progress with per-phase status; Run/Stop controls; app icon applied to window/taskbar.
• Settings menu with "Check for Updates" (GitHub tag check) and "About" (version/info + data attributions).

Batch Mode

• Input: CSV with column icao_hex (or hex/icao) and/or tail/registration. Each row is one aircraft target.
• Behavior:
  • Runs all listed aircraft over the chosen date range.
  • Writes per-aircraft outputs into output/<HEX>_<TAIL>/ (hex-only if tail missing).
  • Optionally Consolidate reports: when enabled, suppresses individual files and produces a single merged set:
    • consolidated_<N>ACFT_<start>_<end>.csv/.json (all hits/JSON payloads)
    • Consolidated KMLs (points, routes, 3D routes, airport heatmap) merged inline for offline viewing
    • Consolidated Excel summary with the same tabs/charts as a normal run, combining all flights
• Caching: ADSBx downloads still cache per-aircraft/day under output/cache/<hex>/YYYY-MM-DD.json.

Install / Run

From source

pip install PyQt5 requests simplekml openpyxl lxml numpy
python skyprofile.py

Packaged EXE (Windows)

• Use dist/SkyProfile.exe with dist/resources/ alongside (contains FAA/airport/acdb data).

Exports & Normalization

• Leg detection: ground/air flags, altitude/GS checks, 90s ground dwell, 20-minute gap landing, ground-cluster averaging, callsign history per leg.
• KML Points: One placemark per leg arrival with times, duration, callsign, meta.
• KML Routes 2D/3D: Full leg tracks (not straight lines); 3D routes include altitude.
• Airport Heatmap KML: One marker per visited airport, sized by total visits (arrivals+departures) and colored white for a clean overlay; attributes include arrival/departure dates, hex, tail.
• CSV: One row per hit; columns include hex and tail plus flattened ac_data (no raw ac_data_json column).
• JSON: Wrapped payload per aircraft: { hex, tail, meta, data: [raw trace_full blobs] }; consolidated JSON is a list of these payloads.
• Excel Summary (full multi-sheet workbook):
  • Summary: Metadata (hex, registration, type, owner, model, flags, date range); FAA details when available.
  • Flights: One row per detected leg; columns for hex, tail, segment id, dep/arr UTC timestamps, duration, dep/arr airport IDs and names, lat/lon, day-of-week/day-of-month/hour buckets, callsign and history.
  • Airports: Top airports by visits (arrivals + departures) with IDs, ICAO/IATA, name, city/country, counts, lat/lon; includes bar chart “Airports by Number of Visits”.
  • Routes: Top routes with readable airport labels and counts; includes bar chart “Count of Routes Traveled”.
  • DayOfWeek: Counts by day-of-week with bar chart.
  • DayOfMonth: Counts by day-of-month with bar chart.
  • Hours: Takeoffs vs landings by UTC hour with a dual-series bar chart (Takeoffs blue, Landings orange).
  • Countries: Visits by country with bar chart.
  • Callsigns: Callsign usage counts.
  • Charts use white backgrounds, integer Y-axes with sensible grid (every 10 or 100 for large counts), and value labels on bars.

Resources & Caching

• Shared data lives in resources/ (acdb_cache, airport_db, faa_registry). PyInstaller builds include it via --add-data and copy it alongside the EXE.
• ADSBx trace cache stays under output/cache/<hex>/YYYY-MM-DD.json.
• Per-aircraft exports are grouped under output/<HEX>_<TAIL>/ (or hex-only if no tail). Consolidated batch exports use consolidated_<N>ACFT_<date range>* in the main output/ folder.

Notes & Limitations

• Coverage gaps may still miss exact ground times; nearest-airport matching can fall back to synthetic LL_lat_lon IDs.
• Photos are disabled in Excel to avoid corrupted drawings.
• Onefile EXE is large because it bundles Python + Qt + dependencies; use one-dir if you need a smaller EXE.

License

• Apache License 2.0 (see LICENSE). External data/APIs remain under their own terms.