Blitzortung
file:Blitzortung.org stormfront central europe 2020-08-16 anim.gif, Animated map of a storm front over Central Europe on 16 August 2020 based on data from Blitzortung.org Blitzortung (German language, German for "lightning direction-finding", ) is an informal, non-commercial group of citizen science, citizen scientists supported by professional scientists. Active since 2005, station operators manage a worldwide network of ~1800 active very low frequency, VLF radio wave receiver stations in 83 countries. These receivers are used to determine the location of lightning strikes based on time-of-flight detector measurements of the received signals. The only compensation that station operators receive is free access to the raw data of all stations. The data is processed by various websites using geoinformatics methods and made available on the Internet as a map display. Targets The goal of Blitzortung.org is worldwide lightning detection with many inexpensive receiving stations. Acco ...
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