Lightning detectors can play a crucial role in protecting people as well as equipment in locations prone to violent lightning storms Weather forecasting over the years has been transformed, from ...

Austriamicrosystems has introduced a lightning sensor IC with an RF receiver that detects the electrical emissions from lightning activity. The device could be used in portable lightning sensors which ...

In October 2012, Chuck Watlington of Fort Myers got “the phone call that no parent wants to get.” His 11-year-old son, Jesse, had been struck by lightning and was in the emergency room at a local ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1988-2005), Vol. 42, No. 6 (June 2003), pp. 739-751 (13 pages) ABSTRACT A digital video camcorder, a four-channel analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, and a GPS ...

UNTERPREMSTAETTEN, Austria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--austriamicrosystems (SIX:AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs, today introduced the world’s first lightning ...

An image of Augustine erupting on January 13, 2006, from about 50 miles away from the volcano. Courtesy of Gerald Andrew When Mount St. Augustine in Alaska erupted in mid-January 2006 for the first ...