WASP2 Information

What is WASP2?
WASP2 stands for Wide Area Spectrum Probe. WASP is an analyzer
intended for monitoring lightning activity captured by a StrikeStar Lightning locator network.
The point sources providing this data to StrikeStar are StormTracker and LD-250 lightning
detectors manufactured by the Boltek Corporation.

How do we get this data?
Lightning strike data which is detected by different Boltek sensors in a StrikeStar
network is sent over the Internet to a central processing server which triangulates
this data in order to determine the approximate geographical position of the lightning
discharge. The StrikeStar output is relayed to a companion server application named
LDStream which in turn feeds this data over a TCP/IP based network and serves as
a network access point for external client applications.

Our lightning dectector is part of this network. Since WASP2 only displays

strikes detected by multiple detectors in the network it usually will show

fewer strikes, but should be more accurate than viewing a single detector.

WASP2 also shows a Regional Radar overlay.

Not for protection of life or property.

Disclaimer: Lightning data is provided without warranty of any kind as to accuracy or timeliness

 

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