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lightning mapper en · NOUN

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1. A system that displays a map of the position of recorded or real-time lightning discharges relative to the user or other objects.
2. (qualifier:instrumentation) The component of such a system that gathers the required data, comprising an interconnected network of electric field change sensors that measure the time of arrival of electric field pulses from the strokes in a lightning flash. Two-dimensional maps require three such sensors, and three-dimensional maps require four.

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