System for predicting ignition potential of lightning events
AssigneeLockheed Martin Corporation
InventorsSapna Rao, Lora Suzanne Koenig, Sajit Jumani, Michael Leo Gauthier
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Abstract
Technology is disclosed herein to generate an indication of a potential that a lightning event will result in ignition based on satellite data. In an implementation, a computing system obtains data associated with a lightning event. The data includes a location of the lightning event and one or more measurements of the lightning event captured by a sensor. The computing system identifies characteristics of the lightning event based at least on the one or more measurements. The computing system predicts the ignition potential of the lightning event based at least on the lightning characteristics and the fuels characteristics.
Claims20
A method of operating a computing system to predict an ignition potential of a lightning event, the method comprising:
- in the computing system:
- obtaining data associated with the lightning event, wherein the data includes a location of the lightning event and one or more measurements of the lightning event captured by a sensor;
- identifying attributes of the lightning event based at least on the one or more measurements included in the data;
- and
- predicting the ignition potential of the lightning event based at least on the lightning event attributes and one or more environmental factors associated with the location.
A computing apparatus comprising:
- one or more computer readable storage media;
- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when executed by one or more processors, direct the computing apparatus to at least:
- obtain data associated with a lightning event, wherein the data includes a location of the lightning event and one or more measurements of the lightning event captured by a sensor;
- identify attributes of the lightning event based at least on the one or more measurements included in the data;
- and
- predict an ignition potential of the lightning event based at least on the lightning event attributes and one or more environmental factors associated with the location.
One or more computer-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, direct the computing device to at least:
- obtain data associated with a lightning event, wherein the data includes a location of the lightning event and one or more measurements of the lightning event captured by a sensor;
- identify attributes of the lightning event based at least on the one or more measurements included in the data;
- identify environmental factors associated with the location;
- and
- predict an ignition potential of the lightning event based at least on the attributes and characteristics of the lightning event and the environmental factors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.