Articles

SA, C2, ISR & COP

• The "P-A-C-E" Plan
• Adding a Network GPS to WinTAK & ATAK for GPS Denied Environments
• Situational Awareness for an open-ocean Boat Race
• Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Security Compendium
• On Bandwidth & Throughput
• Communications Techniques in Bosch Season 5
• PodSwapping
• Secure VoIP with Baresip

Research

• ATAK & Hurricane / Tropical Storm Kay 2022 [TLP:GREEN]. Email to request access.
• EMS Situational Awareness at SF Outside Lands 2022 [TLP:GREEN]. Email to request access.
• NPS JIFX 21-4 Experiment Reports
• Situational Awareness at the San Francisco Marathon 2021
• Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption & Earth's ionosphere, see walk-through video
• Blue Angels Flyover Detection Using Sound
• San Francisco Pride 2013 Emergency Medical Response Statistics

Amateur (Ham) Radio

• APRS Of Things
• Drone APRS

General

• Using a Custom CA on Android
• Force A Remote Host To Clear Its ARP Cache
• Manually Detecting Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
• Media Veganism
• So You Want To Be A Superhero?
• San Francisco Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)

Videos

ATAK for EMS Operations

An overview of using ATAK for EMS special event operations, including CAD integration, blue force tracking & AVL.

Getting Population & Density using EPA EJ Tool

Using EPA's tool to get population data for a given area based on polygon and other drawn boundaries.

ATAK Map Tiles from Special Event PDF Maps

Creating map tiles from manually geo-referenced PDFs and PNGs.

Node-RED TAK on Windows

Installing and using the Node-RED TAK nodes under Windows.

Projects

TAK: Team Awareness Kit

The TAK ecosystem includes ATAK, WinTAK, TAK Server, iTAK, et al. For more information on the TAK ecosystem, please visit the TAK Product Center

PyTAK (Python)

Python Team Awareness Kit, a Python Module for creating TAK clients.

Fused Sidecar (Kotlin)

A Fused Location Provider for ATAK, see walk-through video.

COTProxy (Django)

CoT Proxy is a CoT transforming proxy for TAK clients, see walk-through video.

Node-RED TAK (Node.js)

Node-RED nodes for handling TAK Cursor on Target (CoT) data, see walk-through video.

AISCoT (Python)

Automatic Identification System (AIS) to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms AIS position messages to CoT PLI Events.

ADSBCoT (Python)

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms ADS-B position messages to CoT PLI Events.

ADSBXCoT (Python)

ADS-B Exchange to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms ADS-B position messages to CoT PLI Events.

StratuxCOT (Python)

Stratux ADS-B to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms position messages to CoT PLI Events.

APRSCoT (Python)

Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) to Cursor on Target (CoT) Gateway. Transforms APRS position messages to CoT PLI Events.

INRCoT (Python)

Garmin inReach to Cursor on Target Gateway.

SpotCoT (Python)

GlobalStar Spot to Cursor on Target Gateway.

PulseCoT (Python)

Pulse Point to Cursor on Target Gateway.

SFPDCADCoT (Python)

San Francisco Police CAD to Cursor on Target Gateway.

ZelloCoT (Python)

Zello to Cursor on Target Gateway.

...more projects on GitHub.