| Instrument | Agency | Missions | Status | Type | Measurements &
applications | Technical characteristics |
GLM
Geostationary Lightning Mapper | NOAA | Current: GOES-19, GOES-18, GOES-16, GOES-17
Future: -
Complete: - | Operational | Lightning sensors | Detect total lightning flash rate over near full disk. |
| Waveband: | NIR at 777.4 nm
NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | 10 km
Best resolution: 10000 m |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | 70% |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF-4 |
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GLM-5
Geostationary Lightning Mapper - 5 | NOAA | Current: -
Future: GeoXO-1
Complete: - | Being developed | Lightning sensors | Detect total lightning flash rate over near full disk. |
| Waveband: | NIR at 777.4 nm
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| Spatial resolution: | 10 km
Best resolution: 10000 m |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | 70% |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF-4 |
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Infrared Earth Horizon Sensor
Infrared Earth Horizon Sensor | CAST | Current: Yunhai-1 03
Future: -
Complete: - | | Lightning sensors | Find where the horizon of our planet is to have the pricese idea of the satellite orientation. |
| Waveband: | |
| Spatial resolution: | |
| Swath width: | |
| Accuracy: | |
| Data Access: | |
| Data Format: | |
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LI
Lightning Imager | EUMETSAT (ESA) | Current: Meteosat-12
Future: MTG-I2 (imaging), MTG-I3 (imaging), MTG-I4 (imaging)
Complete: - | Operational | Lightning sensors | Real time lightning detection (cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground strokes, with no discrimination between the two), lightning location. |
| Waveband: | NIR neutral oxygen lightning emission features at 777.4 nm
NIR |
| Spatial resolution: | < 10 km at 45°N |
| Swath width: | Fixed view of 84% of visible earth disc, all EUMETSAT member states |
| Accuracy: | Detection Efficiency: 90% at 45N, SSP longitude, 70% on average over the area of coverage (for lightning signals 6.7 mWm-2sr-1 during the night, 16.7 mWm-2sr-1 during the day), Radiance accuracy: 10% for radiances higher than 70 mWm-2sr-1, 7 mWm-2sr-1 for |
| Data Access: | Open Access |
| Data Format: | NetCDF |
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LMI
Lightning Mapping Imager | NSMC-CMA | Current: FY-4C
Future: FY-4D, FY-4F, FY-4A
Complete: - | Operational | Lightning sensors | Lightning mapping for locating thunder storms in flooding season, CMOS camera operating 0.77 µm to count flashes and intensity. |
| Waveband: | 0.774 µm
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| Spatial resolution: | 4km
Best resolution: 4000 m |
| Swath width: | Full Earth disk |
| Accuracy: | 0.1 |
| Data Access: | Constrained Access |
| Data Format: | L-1 data: HDF 5.0 |
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