Correlation between brightness and channel currents of electrical discharges

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1154-1159

  Amarasinghe, Dulan ^a   Sonnadara, Upul ^a   Berg, Marcus ^b   Cooray, Vernon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Are discharges; Image analysis; Lightning; Optical signal detection

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINANCE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHANNEL CURRENTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL DETECTION; RADIAL DISTANCES; SPARK CHANNELS;

ELECTRIC SPARKS;

EID: 35348815141     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2007.4339475     Document Type: Article

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