Patent ID: 7809507
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: G01W

Abstract:
1. A lightning detection system, comprising: at least one lightning detector, wherein each of the at least one lightning detector comprises: at least one x-ray detector, wherein the at least one x-ray detector provides x-ray data responsive to received x-rays; an electric field detector, wherein the electric field detector provides data responsive to received electric fields; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor receives the x-ray data responsive to received x-rays from said at least one x-ray detector and receives the data responsive to received electric fields from said electric field detector, wherein the at least one processor determines whether lightning will strike or has struck proximate to one of the at least one lightning detector based on coincidence between one or more bursts in the received x-rays generated by a corresponding one or more lightning leader step and one or more steps in the received electric fields generated by the corresponding one or more lightning leader step.