A Parallax Shift Effect Correction Based on Cloud Top Height for FY-4A Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) [PDF]
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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Evaluation of Fengyun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) Performance during Multiple Convective Episodes over Beijing [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 This study investigates the characteristics of space-borne Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) lightning products and their relationships with cloud properties using ground-based total lightning observations from the Beijing Broadband Lightning Network (BLNET)
Zhixiong Chen +6 more
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Lightning Activity Observed by the FengYun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 The Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) onboard the geostationary meteorological satelliteFengYun-4A (FY-4A) detects both intra-cloud (IC) and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning continuously during daytime and nighttime.
Dongjie Cao +3 more
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Preliminary Observations from the China Fengyun-4A Lightning Mapping Imager and Its Optical Radiation Characteristics [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 The Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) is the first satellite-borne lightning imager developed in China, which can detect lightning over China and its neighboring regions based on a geostationary satellite platform.
Wen Hui +3 more
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Effects of Day/Night Factor on the Detection Performance of FY4A Lightning Mapping Imager in Hainan, China [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 In this study, the effect of day/night factor on the detection performance of the FY4A lightning mapping imager (LMI) is evaluated using the Bayesian theorem, and by comparing it to the measurements made by a ground-based low-frequency magnetic field ...
Hao Sun +7 more
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Earth and Space Science, 2021 The Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) onboard Fengyun‐4A (FY‐4A) is the first Chinese lightning detection sensor in geostationary orbit. This study presents the lightning characteristics observed by the FY‐4A LMI in its first year, and then observations ...
Xiang Ni +4 more
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Image Navigation for FY-4A Lightning Mapping Imager
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021 Navigation of images from lightning mapping instruments in geostationary orbits is very important for data applications. However, few scientific peer-reviewed papers have been reported, except a few works in the prelaunch tests.
Jing Wang +7 more
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Concurrent satellite and ground-based lightning observations from the Optical Lightning Imaging Sensor (ISS-LIS), the low-frequency network Meteorage and the SAETTA Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) in the northwestern Mediterranean region [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2020 The new space-based Lightning Imager (LI) onboard the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) geostationary satellite will improve the observation of lightning over Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean from 2021 onwards.
F. Erdmann +6 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 The Fengyun-4A (FY-4A) geostationary satellite carries the Lightning Mapping Imager that measures total lightning rate of convective systems from space at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Hao Sun +7 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 Based on the detection data obtained by the LMI (Lightning Mapping Imager)—China’s first satellite-based lightning observation payload—from 2018–2022, combined with the ERA5 (ECMWF Reanalysis v5) reanalysis data of the same period, the temporal and ...
Jie Zhu, Shulin Zhi, Suling Ren
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