OPTICAL TRANSIENT DETECTOR (OTD) LIGHTNING V1

Description

The Optical Transient Detector (OTD) records optical measurements of global lightning events in the daytime and nighttime. The data includes individual point (lightning) data, satellite metadata, and several derived products. The OTD was launched on 3 April 1995 aboard the Microlab-1 satellite into a near polar orbit with an inclination of 70 degrees with respect to the equator, at an altitude of 740 km.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FLIS%2FOTD%2FDATA101
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=otdlip
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/otd/browse/1998/mlab.otd.1_1.1998.107.gif
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/otd/browse/summaries/1999/1999_october_world.gif
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/otd/doc/otdlip_dataset.pdf
33 LIS/OTD Software Update ¿¿¿ Release Notes 4 February 1999 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/otd/doc/ReleaseNotes_990204.pdf
19 LISOTD V1.1 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/otd/doc/LISOTD_1.1.tar.gz
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/lightning/
21 Lightning https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/lightning
21 Earth Observations: Optical Transient Detector (OTD) https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/earth-observations-optical-transient-detector-otd
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/otd/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data

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  • atmospheric-electricity
  • atmosphere
  • weather-events
  • earth-science

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