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LIS Resources
Read the latest Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) news and access learning resources designed to help you optimize your Earth science research.
LIS Learning Resources
Join us May 3 at 2 p.m., EDT [UTC -4], to learn how to use the Lightning Dashboard at NASA's Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) to visualize and analyze NASA's lightning data.
Webinar
April 26, 2023
Join us to learn how the new International Space Station (ISS) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) data can be used within Python, GIS and other applications to study lightning that occurred during the 2017 hurricane season.
Webinar
April 20, 2022
LANCE near real-time products enable the management of ongoing events; standard data products are heavily processed and intended for scientific research.
Data Basics
July 15, 2021
Join us to learn about the importance of lightning observations- for seasonal and long-term trends in lightning activity. We will focus on data and applications from the International Space Station's (ISS) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) instrument.
Webinar
April 20, 2021
Satellite data shows that communities in western Nepal and northern Bangladesh are at an increased risk for lightning related injury.
Data in Action
June 10, 2019
NASA's Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) surveyed lightning flashes of all shapes, sizes, and radiances across the tropics.
Data in Action
Oct. 19, 2018
NASA's Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) has released 10 different gridded lightning climatology datasets.
Data in Action
Oct. 19, 2018
NASA climatology datasets have revealed Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, as the peak lightning hotspot on Earth.
Data in Action
Oct. 19, 2018
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The installation of a Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space Station (ISS) will enable detection of 98% of Earth's lightning on an annual basis.
News
April 20, 2021
Provisional data from the Lightning Imaging Sensor aboard the International Space Station - LIS (ISS) are now available through NASA's GHRC DAAC and LANCE.
News
April 20, 2021
Researchers stalk seasonal lightning in the most struck place on Earth.
Feature Article
April 19, 2021
Lightning is much more complex—and extreme—than you think.
Feature Article
April 19, 2021
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