High-Resolution Lightning Detection and Possible Relationship with Rainfall Events over the Central Mediterranean Area [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2019 Lightning activity is usually associated with precipitations events and represents a possible indicator of climate change, even contributing to its increase with the production of NOx gases.
Guido Paliaga +3 more
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A source location algorithm of lightning detection networks in China [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2010 Fast and accurate retrieval of lightning sources is crucial to the early warning and quick repairs of lightning disaster. An algorithm for computing the location and onset time of cloud-to-ground lightning using the time-of-arrival (TOA) and azimuth ...
Z. X. Hu, W. G. Zhao, H. P. Zhu
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Assigning the causative lightning to the whistlers observed on satellites [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2006 We study the penetration of lightning induced whistler waves through the ionosphere by investigating the correspondence between the whistlers observed on the DEMETER and MAGION-5 satellites and the lightning discharges detected by the European ...
J. Chum +6 more
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Global ground strike point characteristics in negative downward lightning flashes – Part 2: Algorithm validation [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2021 At present the lightning flash density is a key input parameter for assessing the risk of occurrence of a lightning strike in a particular region of interest.
D. R. Poelman +7 more
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Global ground strike point characteristics in negative downward lightning flashes – Part 1: Observations [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2021 Information about lightning properties is important in order to advance the current understanding of lightning, whereby the characteristics of ground strike points (GSPs) are in particular helpful to improving the risk estimation for lightning protection.
D. R. Poelman +10 more
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Comparing lightning observations of the ground-based European lightning location system EUCLID and the space-based Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space Station (ISS) [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2020 The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space Station (ISS), hereafter referred to as ISS-LIS, detects lightning from space by capturing the optical scattered light emitted from the top of the clouds. The ground-based European Cooperation
D. R. Poelman, W. Schulz
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A REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE LIGHTING DETECTION SYSTEM WITH HIGH DETECTION RATE AND LOW COMPLEXITY [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 A payload was designed and implemented to do real-time and continuous lightning detection which can be used on remote sensing satellite. The payload consists of sensor unit and electronics unit.
Y. Guo, N. Yin, W. Wu, J. Huang, Q. Wang
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The Research of real-time identification system of types of lightning failures of UHV transmission lines based on UV detection technique [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Egineering running experience shows that with the increase of the operating voltage of the transmission line, the lightning trip rate is increasing. According to theoretical calculation ， UHV transmission lines should be provided with full lightning ...
Wang Yunlong +3 more
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Lightning monitoring and detection techniques: Progress and challenges in South Africa
South African Journal of Science, 2021 Globally, lightning causes significant injury, death, and damage to infrastructure annually. In comparison to the rest of the world, South Africa has one of the highest incidences of lightning-related injuries and deaths.
Maqsooda Mahomed +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 The Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) onboard the Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) satellite is the first independently developed satellite-borne lightning imager in China.
Yuansheng Zhang +12 more
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