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ALDIS
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• BLIDS
• CELDN
• CESI-SIRF
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Lightning location systems are installed in all western countries of the old continent.
Two years ago, the eastern part of Europe had no access to highly accurate lightning data. Universities
and weather services started to ask for data from their neighboring countries with operational lightning
location systems (LLS).
Due to the fact that the LLS network capabilities decrease in their ability to register lightning strokes
outside the geographical region of the network, Vaisala and Siemens made the investment and installed additional
sensors in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in order to increase the performance in those countries.
By directly integrating the new sensors with existing LLS sensors located in Austria (ALDIS) and Germany (BLIDS),
a good performing system is now providing accurate lightning data for the entire region. With the central
processing unit located in Karlsruhe and about 20 sensors detecting lightning throughout the region, the
CELDN (Central European Lightning Detection Network) was born.
The long experience of running lightning location systems in Austria and Germany, Vaisala's flexible lightning
detection equipment, and the possibility to use the infrastructure of Siemens made it possible to realize
such a project in only a few weeks time once the decision was made to proceed with establishing the CELDN.
State-of-the-art technology in the remote LLS sensors and central processor contribute to the high detection
efficiency and location accuracy performance of the whole system. However, it was only the fast change in the
communication market and the availability of Internet technology that allowed connecting the sensors in the
different countries so quickly without loosing any performance. The costs for this type of communications
three (3) years ago did not allow the exchange of data in such an efficient and economical way.
As part of the EUCLID cooperation, CELDN contributes to the European data as an important partner to the rest of Europe. |
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