acarsng - ACARS Next Generation Decoder Client

An effort to make a native-compiled ACARS decoder client in the Dart language to decode ACARS traffic using RTL-SDRs.

Goals

• self-contained natively compiled application
• memory and processor efficient
• optimized for embedded systems (i.e. Raspberry Pis)
• abstract enough to work with multiple data links (analog VHF, digital VHF, HF data link, SATCOM data link)
• organizationally independent (while built for airframes.io, not required to use)

Dependencies

Harness the great work of others:

• librtlsdr for core RTL-SDR support
• libacars/libacars-2 for ACARS decoding (thanks Tomasz Lemiech)

Data Links

The following will be supported in the application (in order of implementation).

• ACARS (Analog VHF, the original -- still very active)
• VDL (Digital VHF, the successor)
• HFDL (HF, longer distance, slightly more specialized)
• AERO (SATCOM, focus on oceanic, very specialized)

SDRs Supported

Initial effort will only focus on RTL-SDR since it is the most common and cheapest SDR available on the market. In the future will consider the following:

• Airspy
• SDRPlay
• SOAPYSDR (for multi-sdr support)

License

The MIT License, see LICENSE.