Discussions are ongoing with UAPCheck (M. Vaillant) for mirroring this data on wikidata, wikidata being itself a gateway for APIs.

You should still enrich it here, because the simplicity of this wiki structure (no database, plain text) ensures very simple edition by you and straightforward reuse by machines. Especially now that we have AI tools that work on plain text.

Right now, this wiki already has an Access API, allowing you (more or less) to integrate the pages of this wiki into your website. A specific authorization must be granted first for the registered account.

• Czechia – France – Belgique – Italia – Greece – Ukraine – etc…

• Real Time Maps :
  • Flight Radar 24 A tool for flight tracking that allows you to see what's flying overhead, including the aircraft model, where it's coming from, and where it's going.
    • short video
    • Pro Tip : you can export a kml of a flight and import it into google earth for a fpv.
  • https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
    
  • planefinder.net Works in the past and free ! (at least it did)
  • CasperFlights is obsolete, but still links to functional ADS-B tracking websites for several European countries.
  • Tracking Military Aircrafts
  • Find Flights
    
• Static Map
  • Skyvectors (presented by Richard Haynes at CAIPAN2014). Aero and Weather Map
• Aircrafts Lights
  
  • https://aerosavvy.com/airplane-lights/
    
  • e-CFR Lights ! american standard for aircraft lights.
  • LIGHTS on Airplanes explained by "CAPTAIN"Joe
• Airline and Airport Codes Search
• Airport/Facility Directory
• Aeroweb Tech specs of some aircrafts by manufacturer/model, with dimensions.
• Plane Search
• Airliners.net/Airplanes - Aviation - Aircraft- Aircraft Photos & News

Complex subject - emagrams - contrails

• https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/sondage.php?archive=1&map=0 (under copyright !) Also lists stations in Europe with their WMO & id codes.
  
• http://www.radiosondes.la-radio.eu/RS02/RS02A.html#02
  
• https://tracker.sondehub.org radiosondes tracker
• https://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
  
• http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/meteo-contrails.htm
  
• https://www.globe.gov/web/s-cool/home/observation-and-reporting/contrails
  
• https://www.globe.gov/web/s-cool/home/observation-and-reporting/contrails/contrail-resources
  
• Appleman Map : See https://www.globe.gov/web/s-cool/home/observation-and-reporting/contrails/appleman-chart-student
  • The Appleman map extended to the ground which gives, as a function of atmospheric pressure and temperature considered directly, the theoretical curves of relative humidity (RH). To the left of 0%, contrails always form, to the right of 100%, no formation is possible, and between the two, contrail formation is possible.
• See in the literature, an example of intermittent contrail. https://books.google.fr/books?id=8lpzAwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA124&lpg=RA1-PA124&dq=%22intermittent+contrails%22+formation&source=bl&ots=ZFRMcneEYB&sig=4FHHvH3VWwx8OqvMS6XiUgscUas&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbo6T199LRAhWEXRQKHYF8CjYQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q&f=false
  

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• météociel weather archive
  • by site and date
  • global view
  • Cloudiness– This map represents the cloudiness recorded by weather stations. It is measured in octats with a value from 0 to 8, 0 meaning no cloudiness (clear sky) and 8 being the maximum cloudiness (cloudy, completely covered sky)
  • Lightning Strikes over europe
    
  • https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/satellite.php?mode=archives-image-visible-France
    
  • https://www.meteociel.fr/observations-meteo/satellite.php?mode=archives-infrarouge-noir-et-blanc
    
• METAR et SYNOP Requests. Among other things, they allow us to know the altitude of the cloud ceiling…
  • METAR & SYNOP Decoders
• http://en.sat24.com/en/fr on France. Satellite views in InfraRed (presented by Richard Haynes at CAIPAN2014). Can show lightning strikes in real time. But I couldn't get the lightning to display in archive mode.
• UV solar index (TBD)

• Wind in the past f(date,altitude): https://earth.nullschool.net/fr/

• https://www.infoclimat.fr/
  
• https://www.infoclimat.fr/stations/static.php
  
• https://www.infoclimat.fr/cartes/stations-amateurs.php
  

• Google Earth https://www.google.com/intl/fr/earth/about/versions/#download-pro
  
• OpenStreetMap
  • Allows you to locate an address, coordinates on a map or satellite photo. These maps are royalty-free and should be preferred over Google Maps if the documents are to be made public.
• Microsoft Maps app: On Windows 10/11, type “maps” (or the translation of that word in your country) in the “search windows” box at the bottom left. Maps can sometimes provide more up-to-date images than Google Earth.
• Estimate magnetic declination by location/date or Estimate magnetic declination by location to be able to correct compass pointings.
• Conversion of geographic coordinates
  • This online converter coupled with a Google map allows:
    • to obtain GPS coordinates in decimal degrees, in DMS or in the form of an address, and this whatever the initial field completed
    • to obtain these same coordinates by clicking on a point on the Google map
    • to use Google Streetview directly on the map

• Stellarium (do not use for satellites in the past) (plugin goniomètre - angular distances is advised)
  
  • Script to generate a cube map of a stellarium view.
  • Plugin goniomètre / 'angular size' for the measure of angular distances
• Winstar 2
• Skymap Pro 11 (abandonware, offline, serious)

• Nova Astrometry can recognize the alt/az of a pixel in a picture by looking at the stars in the picture.
• Local Sidereal Time Clock (Claude Poher proposed a relation between the local sidereal time & ufos)

https://fireball.fripon.org/list_station.php
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRIPON
https://fireball.fripon.org/list_single.php
https://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/browse_events
https://tammojan.github.io/meteormap/
http://cams.seti.org/
https://globalmeteornetwork.org/
http://boam.fr/
http://www.boam.fr/carte_boam.htm
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events

Satellites : Avoid Heavens Above or In-the-Sky

• Methods to obtain the TLE of visible satellites at a given passed epoch
• TLE format description (two line elements)
• Celestrak
  • Last TLEs
  • TLE of the 100 brightest satellites
  • WaybackMachine applied to celestrak in order to find the ID of the brightest satellites in the past.
  • Archives
• Space-Track
  • Norad Archives to retrieve the TLE files (free, an account must be created, useful tool).
• Passes visualization
  • In the Sky (online)
  • Calsky (online †)
  • JSatTrak (offline, using TLE files)
  • Skymap Pro 11 (abandonware, offline, using TLE files.) ¹⁾
• Atmospheric Reentries passed and predicted.
• Launches
• Starlink : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshield_launches
  
• https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/fr/node/60652
  
• https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/sites/default/files/2024-07/flashs%20de%20satellites%20Starlink%20note%20d%27enquete_2.pdf
  

• Time Zone Converter : The swizz army knife for all computations on dates for the whole world. Practical if you are not sure of the DST state.
• Knots in m/s
• Feet in meters
• http://www.metric-conversions.org/fr/
• GPS https://www.coordonnees-gps.fr/conversion-coordonnees-gps
  

• Stereonet. Free for our context of use. But you should make reference this way. Dev still active in 2024. Example of use in a report by the COBEPS : "Boomerang survolant Braine-le-Comte 12/07/2015".
• Unity for 3D Reconstruction. Unity is a game engine, with a rather manageable dev env. Still very complex because very powerful. Free for non commercial use. Most widely used game engine in the world

• Pantone Matching System (html file), downloadable here as a zip

• Halosim, ice crystals halos simulator (includes parhelies).
• Iris, coronas, glories and fogbows simulator
  • it might be hard to find the software now. Here it is : halosim_and_iris.zip

• http://www.freeviewer.org/msg/ (works well, free, but with some limitations)
• http://www.pstwalker.com/download/msgviewer.zip (most complete, not free)
• http://www.freeopener.com/ (not tested)

• Vegas Movie Studio
• Screen Recorder (useful for flightradar24)
  • http://www.sketchman-studio.com/rylstim-screen-recorder/

• audacity download

• IPACO
  • Deblur Module
  • Measures

• Several tools for Detection of photo forgery by Igor M. Kalytyuk (auto translation)
• Another Fake Detector

• https://meprises-du-ciel.fr/ Long list of known phenomena with illustrations (pictures & videos) (english available)

• Voxal Voice Changer : Rather OK. Allows you to build your filter. Free for our non-commercial and personal use. Free for 14 days, then €.
• : find a free one, capable of processing files and creating very distorting filters.

• Free : Hugin panorama stitcher. Rather good. Based sur Panotools. Dev still active in 2024. Wiki : http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin
• Script for generating a cube map of a Stellarium view.

• Open Infrastructure Map Geographic short video A tool that allows you to find key infrastructure in one publicly available map. It is helpful for geolocation tasks.

• Wayback Machine Data short video A service that allows you to view deleted websites and posts. You can search through screenshots made every day.

• https://about.skaping.com/live/ explore the webcams of the world
  

• Google image reverse search Search and simply https://www.google.com/ a.k.a Google Lens short video Allows you to upload an image to get more context, see where it's been posted, or find other versions of it online.

• ShadowMap Geographic short video Allows you to view shadows cast by buildings anywhere in the world and simulates where those shadows will fall at any time. Useful for figuring out the location of photos and videos in dense urban areas.

• Suncalc Geographic short video A tool that makes calculating the time based on the angle of shadows easy.

• Google Street View Geographic short video Allows you to see what an area looked like in the past using old Google Street View images.

• GeoGuesser Geographic short video A Chat GPT based app that suggests the location of an image after you upload it.

• EXIF
  • EXIF data: Viewed using the Firefox add-on “Exif Viewer”. Once installed, open the image in Firefox and right-click on it.
  • Jimpl Data short video An online exif or metadata viewer.
  • Pixel Keeper Data short video A tool that reveals camera model and date using exif data.
  • Exif Tool Data short video A command line tool that reveals hidden data attached to an image.

• Overpass Turbo Geographic short video A tool that allows you to query the OpenStreetMap database to create your own map.

• Live UA Map Geographic short video A tool that collects maps and events happening around the world every day. It is useful for tracking major global news events.

• Google Dorks Search short video A method to search on Google for particular files like PDFs, documents or spreadsheets, even on a specific website.

• YouTube GeoFind Geographic short video A tool that allows you to find geotagged YouTube videos uploaded from a specific location.

• GetDayTrends Social Media short video A site that allows you to find out what the top trending tags are on Twitter (now called X) for any time and any location around the world.

• Search by Image Search short video A Chrome plug-in that lets you search multiple platforms in one click.

• MapChecking CrowdTool Geographic short video A tool that helps you estimate the maximum number of people that can fit in a given area.

• Redective Social Media short video A tool that allows you to check out the stats of a Reddit group or a user's most commonly used words or active hours.

• Untappd Scraper Data short video A tool that allows you to scrape data from Untappd – the platform where you can find out how much beer people are drinking in your area.

• Who posted what? Social Media short video A tool that allows you to find out what was uploaded to Facebook on one specific date.

• Open Measures Social Media short video A tool that lets you track trends on platforms like Telegram, TikTok, VK, and more.

• Carnet AI Search short video An AI tool that allows you to upload an image and identify the car model.

• TG Stat Social Media short video Allows you to search for Telegram channels by country, explore channels by category, and check channel and group ratings. Useful for researching specific niche topics on Telegram.

• What's My Name App Social Media short video Helps you find out what social media platforms someone is using by entering a username. You can filter results and export URLs.

• Search4Faces Search short video Offers a reverse face search engine across several platforms.

• PimEyes Search short video A mix of free and paid service that provides alternative images of a person's face.