You probably all know of my love for Live Flight tracking using a Raspberry Pi (or more precisely a plethora of them) and Vertica.
Although I started flight tracking around 2012, my interest grew when I saw this from NATS (National Air Traffic Services) https://vimeo.com/110348926 – a series of great video clips from UK, Middle East, Europe and North Atlantic
Though at this time of year, I always check out their preparation for Santa!
- Yuletide 24 – Santa’s flight path (2014): https://nats.aero/blog/2014/12/yuletide-24/
- Flight planning for Santa Claus (2015): https://vimeo.com/147319833
- Santa’s Test Flight: Christmas depends on you (2018): https://www.nats.aero/christmas-2018/
- Elf Traffic Control Flight Plan System: https://www.nats.aero/christmas/
Have a great holiday! Looking forward to 2020!
Related Posts:
Tracking telemetry:
Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real Time — Part 1
Vertica on the Road! Using Vertica to Prepare and Analyze Vehicle Telematics Data
Holiday:
Vertica Announces Vertica Analytic Database, Eon Mode on Premise, Academic Edition
About the Author
Mark Whalley
Manager, Vertica Education
From the early 1980s, Mark worked with Michael Stonebraker's Ingres RDBMS and then a number of column-store big data analytics technologies.
In 2016, he joined HPE Big Data Platform as a Systems Engineer specialising in Stonebraker’s Vertica.
In September 2017 he followed Vertica as it merged into Micro Focus – one of the world’s largest pure-play software companies.
He is passionate about technology and frequently delivers talks at the London, Cambridge and Munich Big Data & Machine Learning Meetups (of which he is the founder with its 4K+ members), the British Computer Society – Advanced Programming Specialist Group, Vertica Forums, the Institute for Analytics and Data Science at the University of Essex et al.
He is a technical blogger and author.
