habitat
habitat is a web application for tracking the flight path of a high altitude balloon such as ALIEN, relying on a network of users with radios sending in received telemetry strings which are parsed into position information and displayed on maps. It consists of a central couchdb database, with several surroudning python daemons that modify documents that listeners have uploaded to the database. The front-end website then pulls data from the database. The developers for this project includes myself, UKHAS members and other balloonists around the world. habitat has begun to replace the current system, the front-end of which is at spacenear.us, and it will be hosted at habhub.org.