About Us
EUCLID (EUropean Cooperation for LIghtning Detection) is a collaboration among national lightning detection networks with the aim to detect and localize lightning all over Europe.
At the moment there are many European countries included in EUCLID. Complete network consists of about 168 sensors in 31 countries all contributing to the lightning detection.
Coverage of EUCLID ranges from Portugal to Finland and from Sicily to the North of Norway. There is no other project like EUCLID in the world, with so many lightning detection networks connected together, which compiles lightning information in Europe for a mutual area of interest in common ideas and results.
The EUCLID network provides lightning data for Europe with homogenous detection efficiency and location accuracy.
Individual participating networks receive real-time access to the complete EUCLID lightning data and are able to use this data to serve their clients. Each network retains it's national independence and provides lightning data for individual user applications in their own country as well.
The core operational applications for EUCLID includes meteorology, hydrology, electric power utilities, communications, insurance, transport, forestry, defense and aviation.