Creating and viewing lightning incident reports

Select + Add from the top navigation.

Select Analysis report from the list.

Select an asset that already has configured alert(s) from the drop down menu. To protect an asset and add alerts, see Managing asset alerts.

Define the radius around the selected asset between 1-150 km for the buffer distance.

If a custom point within or along the asset is preferred, enable the custom point option.
Type in the desired latitude and longitude or place a marker on the map for the appropriate location using pan and zoom before clicking on the desired point.
This function is allowed in the map area within a polygon area, on a point along a line, or on one of the points in a multi-point asset.

Select the dataset to retrieve lightning data from. Real-time merge includes data from 2016 up to now. NLDN reprocessed is available for 2016 up to approximately 7 days in the past, and includes quality improvements to the lightning data such as location accuracy and detection efficiency.

Select Next.

Select the time zone from the drop down for the report data analysis.

If you have a time of fault suspected, select fault time entry, to enter the time of the fault and configure a buffer time (+/-) around the fault time and the units (s, min, h).

If you would like to configure a recurring scheduled report, select Repeat, and then choose between Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Then enter the first date to run the report schedule.

To request a one-time report without a specific fault time, enter the time and date range for the report period.

For recent data access, use the short keys for the last 1 or 5 min, or the last 12 or 24 hours. Depending on your subscription, you can select More... for a range up to the last 31 days.

For a specific date and time range, enter the date, time, and millisecond (ms) time (optional) for both the start and end time.

Depending on your subscription, you may access data from the last 1-2 minutes, back to Jan 1st, 2016, for up to a maximum time period of 31 days.

Select Next.

Enter a new name for this report or use the default name.

Choose the desired report file formats (CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, and / or PDF).

Depending on your subscription, you may be able to include error ellipses in the report. Select Include error ellipses in the report download and set the error ellipse confidence. A lower confidence level produces a smaller error ellipse.

Depending on your subscription, you may be able to include strike damage potential in the report. Select Include strike damage potential information.

Depending on your subscription, you may be able to filter the report by lightning event type, polarity, or a custom kiloampere (kA) range. Select Include cloud-to-cloud events. In Include events with signal strength, select All or Positive to filter by polarity, or Custom range to set a kiloampere range.

Select Save.

Once the report has been created (this should only take a few moments), the report will be available on the top row of the previously created reports in the Reports tab showing metadata for the report, and options to display and interact with the data on the map, and then to download the report data (via CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, or PDF formats) with any filters applied while interacting with the displayed data.

Select the Reports tab.

Find an asset with reported events and select Analysis.

Select the report filters. You can select the signal strength range, enable error ellipses and set the error ellipse confidence, and include cloud-to-cloud events and strike damage potential. You can also set the type of the strike damage potential.

Select Download (filters applied) and then select either CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, or PDF to download the report in the selected format. The GeoJSON format can be viewed in a GIS tool of your choice. Note that any modifications to the data in the report viewer will be applied to the downloaded report.