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## Proposal
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Very nebulous idea at the moment, but the idea would be to build a
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distributed lightning detection system, with the intended goal of having
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precision high enough to go find the aftereffects of strikes (like
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[geocaching](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching)). After thinking
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of this, I found some dutch folks have done [much what I had in
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mind](http://members.home.nl/fkooiman/lightning/), so the problem is
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kind of a solved one. Still, it would be neat thing to make, and it
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doesn't appear to have a stateside equivalent yet (its sort of a public
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service project). [Here](http://www.blitzortung.org/) is live data
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coming from the central European system.
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I've heard the government runs these, but I haven't found any place the
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data is accessible online. If that's the case (and it's fairly high res)
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my enthusiasm for this idea is dimmed a lot.
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--[Bjorn](User:Bjorn "wikilink") 14:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
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2024-06-13 01:48:44 +00:00
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[Category:Proposed_Projects](Category:Proposed_Projects "wikilink")
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