Sensitivity Degradation of ISUAL Instruments and Its Impact on Observations

In the past 6 years, the ISUAL payload onboard the Taiwanese FORMOSAT-2 satellite has successfully carried out the primary mission of performing a global survey of transient luminous events (TLE) and lightning activities. The observation data have been used to construct the first global distribution...

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Published in:	Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Main Authors:	Alfred Bing-Chih Chen, Yen-Jung Wu, Chih-Yu Chiang, Yin-Chieh Huang, Cheng-Ling Kuo, Han-Tzong Su, Rue-Ron Hsu, Stephen B. Mende, Harald U. Frey, Stewart E. Harris, Yukihiro Takahashi, Lou-Chuan Lee
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2012-01-01
Subjects:	Transient luminous events (TLEs) Lightning Atmospheric electricity Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightnings (ISUAL) Space instrument
Online Access:	http://tao.cgu.org.tw/images/attachments/v231p071.pdf