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Wow! some of the distances from detectors to strike location are thousands of km. Now I am curious how it works. my guess is some sort of low frequency radio de
by somat 2y ago
Wow! some of the distances from detectors to strike location are thousands of km. Now I am curious how it works. my guess is some sort of low frequency radio detector(long antenna?) and a good(gps disciplined?) timer. As the station integrator gets the reports it solves for what point could of generated this collection of time stamps.
Update: found the info page. It took me longer than it should have, but in my defense it was under the heading "cover your area"
https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php https://www.blitzortung.org/en/cover_your_area.php
And here is a paper on the method used to integrate the reports.
https://wwlln.net/publications/dowden.toga.article.pdf https://wwlln.net/publications/dowden.toga.article.pdf
- bityard 2y agoYou don't need a particularly good antenna to receive lightning strikes. At night, I can hear a thunderstorm almost anywhere in the midwest US just by turning on an any old AM radio. But yeah, timing is critical to get an actual location.