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by Aspos 502 days ago
Those red-green navigation lights are enough. There is only one aircraft position which would satisfy a given relative configuration. PI camera has a known field of view and given hundreds of images one could have directions converging pretty accurately.
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Nit pick, it's not using a Pi camera, its using an old Nokia 5.4 phone as a camera.

Also, they're showing (and linking to) FlightRadar24's departure and destination data, it's quite clear they are on one of the approaches to Delhi International (DEL). I don't know how many runways DEL has, but there's no more than 4 possible lines planes take in approach and departure. If i cared enough I could easily work out which of those lines by checking FlightRadar for the history of one of the links, and match the timestamp with the FR tracklog.

Collection 100s of images any attempting to do geometry magic is unnecessarily complicating things. (Which is fine if your goal is to solve complicated problems for fun. But there is a much easier way.)