The Lightning Mapper Sensor for GOES-NEXT

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Goes Satellites, Lightning, Photomapping, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Storms (Meteorology), Convection Cells, Focal Plane Devices, Satellite Observation, Telescopes

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This paper presents a design overview of the Lightning Mapper Sensor (LMS). The LMS is an instrument designed to be flown on a GOES-NEXT satellite. Its function is to detect total lightning activity within a 8 x 10 degree FOV with a 90 percent detection efficiency and with a spatial resolution of 10 km (a scale typical of convective storm cells). From the GOES 75-deg W location, the LMS will provide coverage of the continental United States and the northern portion of South America to 10-deg S latitude. It will provide data on the distribution and variability of lightning activity, and increase understanding of the underlying and interrelated phenomena (including atmospheric convection, lightning/precipitation relationships, lightning/trace-gas interactions, and the global electric circuit). The LMS will be a valuable 'nowcasting' tool providing severe storm warning and tracking information to population centers, aircraft, shipping, launch sites and forest-fire fighters.

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