High-speed optical studies of long spark (Istra, Russia) and triggered lightning (Camp Blanding, Florida): Initial results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4948, Issue , 2002, Pages 837-845

  Shcherbakov, Yuri V ^a   Lebedev, Vitali B ^b   Rakov, Vladimir A ^c   Feldman, Grigori G ^b   Sukharevskij, Dmitrij I ^a   Gorin, Boris N ^b   Syssoev, Vladimir S ^a   Karpov, Maksim A ^b   Senik, Aleksei V ^d  

^a ALL RUSSIAN ELECTROTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b BIFO Company   (Russian Federation)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^d RUSSIAN FEDERAL NUCLEAR CENTER VNIIEF   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

CCD readout system; Downward and upward leaders; Image converter streak and framing camera; Lightning; Long spark; Programmable camera; Streak and frame image; Streamer zone; Streamer leader system

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; INSTRUMENT TESTING; LIGHTNING; READOUT SYSTEMS; STREAK CAMERAS;

ANALOG IMAGE CONVERTER STREAK CAMERA; FRAMING CAMERAS; LONG SPARK; TRIGGERED LIGHTNING;

HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0345283126     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.516990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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