DGSN_bigwhoop

Measuring everything! This time, full RF-spectrum! This is the first application for the Distributed Ground Station Network (DGSN) that will analyse the radio-frequency spectrum with RTL-SDR hardware.

Team

Everyone is invited! Just add what you like. We are all space communication enthusiasts.

• webpage: http://www.AerospaceResearch.net
• repo: https://github.com/aerospaceresearch/dgsn_bigwhoop
• contact team: [email protected]
• subscribe mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aerospaceresearch

Supporting and Supported by

• European Space Agency Summer of Code in Space 2014 and 2015
  • http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis/
• NASA International Space Applications Challenge 2015
  • http://spaceappschallenge.org/

Inspiration

BigWhoop was inspired by Monitoring the Spectrum: Building Your Own Distributed RF Scanner Array [30c3]

• by Andrew Reiter
• contact him at [email protected]
• watch Monitoring the Spectrum: Building Your Own Distributed RF Scanner Array [30c3]
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5BTUVPeoVY

The RTL_SDR software

thank you for this awesome project! It makes our BigWhoop possible

• it can be found here >> https://github.com/steve-m/librtlsdr
• their license does apply on the bundled files in the provided "/rtl_sdr" folder in BigWhoop
• more information here >> http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr

Used Software and Libraries

• Python >> https://python.org
• RTL-SDR >> http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
• Numpy >> http://www.numpy.org
• BOINC (Berkely Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) >> http://boinc.berkeley.edu