An Overview of Pekan Lightning Detection System (PLDS)

• Main Authors: Wan Ismail, Ibrahim, Mohd Riduwan, Ghazali
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2012
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3119/1/PID2597215.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3119/; https://doi.org/10.1109/PECon.2012.6450308

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.