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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110246074 | LIGHTNING STRIKE SIMULATION APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM This invention improves accuracy of lightning strike simulation. There is provided a lightning strike simulation apparatus including a storage device for storing lightning strike data, a setting unit for setting a simulation target and the like in a simulation space, a ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110118982 | System and Method for Detecting Lightning Strikes Likely To Affect A Condition of A Structure A lightning detection system and method for detecting a lightning strike are provided. The system includes a lightning detector in a structure susceptible to a lightning strike. The lightning detector includes a data logger configured to log data indicative of a time of... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110077866 | DISTANCE RELAY USING REAL TIME LIGHTNING DATA A distance relay apparatus, a distance relay processing system and a method for processing a distance relay are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the distance relay processing system, which controls a distance relay, includes a lightn... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110046809 | ADAPTIVE RELAYING CONTROLLED BY AUTONOMOUS EVENT DETECTION An adaptive relaying control system and method is disclosed for adapting coordination of protective measures provided to an electric-energy distribution system as a function of at least an ambient weather condition. A weather sensor senses the ambient weather condition ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040483 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Lightning Activity Described are methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for detecting lightning activity. Waveform data indicative of lightning activity is received by a waveform sensor from one or more signal converters. The waveform data comprises a group of elect... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100268467 | Lightning detection A method, an apparatus, and a computer program is provided. The method includes: quantizing a received time-varying radio frequency signal to produce a series of digital values; maintaining a plurality of data groups, each data group including a cumulative parameter and... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100023267 | Method and system for determining cloud-to-ground lightning information A real-time, multi-sensor local-area lightning detection network system. The system uses waveform indicative of electrostatic field changes with respect to time is generated at each of N locations due to a cloud-to-ground lightning strike occurring in the vicinity of th... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090281730 | Long-range lightning detection and characterization system and method A long-range lightning detection and characterization system and method. Electromagnetic radiation produced by a lightning strike is sensed at a sensing location and a measured signal representative of the strike is produced that defines an amplitude versus time. A set ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090240434 | Lightning detection This disclosure relates to a method, a computer program product, a device, and a system for detecting direction information of at least one pulse of at least one received signal, downconverting the at least one received signal, and performing lightning detection based o... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090234583 | LIGHTNING DETECTOR USING AN X-RAY DETECTOR AND AN E- OR B-FIELD DETECTOR A lightning detection system (100) includes at least one lightning detector (101-103). The said lightning detector (101-103) includes at least one x-ray detector (110) for providing x-ray data responsive to x-rays received, and ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090187344 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Analyzing Power Grid Data A system, device and method for analyzing power grid data is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a data collection module comprising a plurality of database adapters configured to retrieve non-operational utility data, a data storage module in communication... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090164124 | ULTRA WIDEBAND RECEIVER FOR LIGHTNING DETECTION The present invention relates to a system and method for detecting lightning activity. When a lightning strike is close enough to a receiver, the strength of the signal received will cause the receiver to saturate. In such a situation, a non-filtered signal is used to c... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20080262732 | METHOD OF DETECTING, LOCATING, AND CLASSIFYING LIGHTNING There is discloses a new method for identifying an electromagnetic signal having a known waveform. The method includes using a lightning matched filter receiver having a bank of filters matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms for detecting lightning. The us... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080255760 | Forecasting system A process includes providing a plurality of forecasts from a plurality of forecasting models. The plurality of forecasts each includes a mean and a variance. A model weight is calculated for each forecasting model. The model weight is proportional to the ability of that... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20070156339 | System and method for recording, transmitting and analyzing data and information accrued from electromagnetic radiation In order to further develop a system (100) and a method for recording, transmitting and analyzing data and information (D and D*, resp.) accrued from, in particular low-frequency, electromagnetic radiation, where the electromagnetic radiation originates from at l... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070088504 | Detection of lightning A lightning detector for lightning detection and a lightning detection method, wherein the mobile lightning detector is provided with an antenna, an amplifier front-end, an A/D converter and a digital signal processor, and wherein the lightning detector is a mobile RF d... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20060206268 | Apparatus for low cost lightning detection A lightning detector system monitors the lightning strikes requires a real-time detection and processing system. A real-time processing system requires the use of a high-speed processor with floating-point math capability and multiple analog to digital channels. The cos... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060106540 | Weather station A weather station for providing weather information to a user, especially weather information related to lightning and severe thunderstorm activity. In accordance with the present invention, the weather station includes one or more antennas for receiving GPS transmissio... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20050197776 | Lightning detection A mobile radio-frequency enabled device that provides a reliable and inexpensive lightning alerting of a user. The device comprises an electromagnetic interferences detection component detecting electromagnetic interferences in radio-frequency signals received by the mo... | 09/08/2005 |
