There are various places throughout the main blitzortung documentation where the phrases 'experimental' 'hobby' 'don't rely on', 'do not use data for...' etc are used.
If you are unable to relate to the 'hobbyist' 'experimental' nature of this project, then you're surfing the wrong site. This is CONSTANTLY revising computations, assignments, etc. Chasing the discharge point (Ground Point) of a C-G stroke is partly math, partly luck. There is NO way any of us are going to claim a "percentage of strokes detected" and report it. Likewise we MIGHT state that our goal is locate a stroke ground point within 1000 meters, and that would be a ball park estimate. We might refer to it as 'deviation', which can be from meters to miles (km). Likewise a 'multiple stroke' discharge may happen so rapidly that we sense it as a single stroke. I've PERSONALLY documented stroke within meters, and in a few cases DEAD ON the actual ground point.... others mis-located by kilometers. So, on some of the map displays you can see a 'max deviation' by mousing over a new strike... that will be displayed in nsec, most likely. That can be translated by converting to distance. Note that a lightning impulse DOES NOT travel at the speed of light, however.... maybe 'half' that rapid speed, depending. So you can say any 'deviation' or 'accuracy' or 'efficiency' is based on a 'half-fast' calculation. Pun intended.
https://docs.lightningmaps.org/general/l...detection/
If you are unable to relate to the 'hobbyist' 'experimental' nature of this project, then you're surfing the wrong site. This is CONSTANTLY revising computations, assignments, etc. Chasing the discharge point (Ground Point) of a C-G stroke is partly math, partly luck. There is NO way any of us are going to claim a "percentage of strokes detected" and report it. Likewise we MIGHT state that our goal is locate a stroke ground point within 1000 meters, and that would be a ball park estimate. We might refer to it as 'deviation', which can be from meters to miles (km). Likewise a 'multiple stroke' discharge may happen so rapidly that we sense it as a single stroke. I've PERSONALLY documented stroke within meters, and in a few cases DEAD ON the actual ground point.... others mis-located by kilometers. So, on some of the map displays you can see a 'max deviation' by mousing over a new strike... that will be displayed in nsec, most likely. That can be translated by converting to distance. Note that a lightning impulse DOES NOT travel at the speed of light, however.... maybe 'half' that rapid speed, depending. So you can say any 'deviation' or 'accuracy' or 'efficiency' is based on a 'half-fast' calculation. Pun intended.
https://docs.lightningmaps.org/general/l...detection/
