What does LIS stand for?

Lightning Imaging Sensor

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Data collected between December '97 and January '98 by NASA's orbiting Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) satellite showed that about 90 percent of all lightning struck land (see map above).

Lightening strikes

To properly monitor this type of lightning takes special equipment like NASA's Lightning Imaging Sensor, an instrument flying aboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite launched in 1997.

NASA Scientist: Lightning Studies May Provide Earlier Tornado Alerts

TMI was designed to work in conjunction with a precipitation radar built by the Japanese space agency, NASDA, as well as visible and infrared sensors, and a lightning imaging sensor.

NASA Honors Hughes Team