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The OpenSky Network API documentation
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This is the official documentation of the OpenSky Network's live API. The API lets you retrieve live airspace information for research and non-commerical purposes.
Please note that the API does not provide commmercial flight data such as airport schedules, delays or similar information that cannot be derived from ADS-B data contents!
Information is generally provided in the form of *State Vectors* (see below). The following paragraphs will help you understand how we represent an aircraft's state and how to use it. There is also a little more specific documentation available for our :doc:`REST API <rest>`. We provide a :doc:`Python <python>` language binding and a :doc:`Java <java>` language binding for the REST API.
Citation and Terms of Use
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If you create a publication (including web pages, papers published by a third party, and publicly available presentations) using data from the OpenSky Network data set, you should cite the original OpenSky paper as follows::
Matthias Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic and Matthias Wilhelm.
"Bringing Up OpenSky: A Large-scale ADS-B Sensor Network for Research".
In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), pages 83-94, April 2014.
You can additionally mention our URL, where appropriate::
The OpenSky Network, https://opensky-network.org
See our `terms and conditions <https://opensky-network.org/about/terms-of-use>`_ for more details on the data license model. If you want to retrieve live flight information for commercial purposes, please `contact us <https://opensky-network.org/about/contact>`_.
.. _state-vectors:
.. include:: state-vectors.rst
Further Reading
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Intro & Data Structures <self>
REST API <rest>
Python API <python>
Java API <java>