lightning mapper

English

lightning-detector antennas that feed information to a
lightning mapper

Noun

lightning mapper (plural lightning mappers)

1. (meteorology) A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
2. (instrumentation) The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.

See also

• Lightning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:lightning detectors on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons