An overview of Pekan Lightning Detection System (PLDS)

Author

Ibrahim, W.I. ; Ghazali, M.R.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

718

Lastpage

723

Abstract

Pekan is located at east of peninsular Malaysia which experience very high cloud to ground (CG) lightning density. The lightning strike hazards can be properly managed by using a lightning location system (LLS). In this paper, a system to monitor the lightning strikes and thunderstorm has been installed and setup. Pekan Lightning Detection System (PLDS) has a combination of Magnetics Direction Finder and Time-of - Arrival sensor. The PLDS provides both real-time and historical lightning data. The real-time data include the time of lightning strokes, their location and an estimate of the peak current.

Keywords

lightning protection; LLS; PLDS; Pekan lightning detection system; cloud-to-ground lightning density; historical lightning data; lightning location system; lightning strike hazards; magnetic direction finder; peak current estimation; peninsular Malaysia; real-time data; thunderstorm; time-of-arrival sensor; Conferences; Lightning; Magnetics; Radiation detectors; Real-time systems; Storms; Lighning Location System (LLS); Magnetics Direction Finding; PLDS; thunderstorm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy (PECon), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kota Kinabalu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5017-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECon.2012.6450308

Filename

6450308