Benford's law and its application to lightning data

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 956-961

  Manoochehrnia, Pooyan ^a   Rachidi, Farhad ^a   Rubinstein, Marcos ^b   Schulz, Wolfgang ^c   Diendorfer, Gerhard ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c Austrian Electrotechnical Association (OVE)   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benford's law; detection efficiency; lightning; lightning location systems; lightning peak current; location accuracy

Indexed keywords

BENFORD'S LAW; CLOUD-TO-GROUND FLASH; DATA SETS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; LIGHTNING DETECTION; LIGHTNING LOCATION; LIGHTNING LOCATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION ACCURACY; PEAK CURRENTS; RETURN STROKE; SWITZERLAND;

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 78649316299     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2010.2067218     Document Type: Article

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