Astrogenic's NexStorm Lightning Detection Software
A brand new piece of software by Astrogenic. NexStorm takes a fresh new approach to data display and analysis from the Boltek lightning detector range.
The detection and ranging of this software is extremely good and flexible and with the ability to export data.
Features
- Compatible with Windows 95/98/ME and 2000/XP
- Professionally designed and intuitive graphical user interface, you will be up and running within minutes
- Multithreaded design and efficient internal memory managment for optimal performance on any system, around the
clock and without human interference
- Boltek ISA, PCI and LD-250 Support
- Built-in, programmable screen capture of the GUI, no need to have NexStorm occupying your entire desktop, the
program can be minimized as the capture is performed in-memory! Captures can be saved in PNG, BMP or JPEG
formats. The JPEG format comes with adjustable compression level.
- Data archiving for later replay and analysis
- Automated archive export. Use StormVue-1 Java applet or your own creation for displaying the data online, thus
minimizing bandwidth usage compared to uploading images. The format of the exported archive is open source and
available to third-party developers.
- Programmable FTP upload of exported archive or screen capture
- Programmable File Copy of exported archive or screen capture to your local or network disk
- FlashGate IPC datapump. Third-party developers can now have realtime access to every single strike event using
standard Windows interprocess communication techniques (see details below)
- TRAC - (Thunderstorm Range Acquisition) - intelligent algorithm for storm positioning and tracking of individual
stormcells, features stormcell location plot on map and analyzing of individual storms
- Use any BMP image as your background map, no proprietary formats
- Configurable, color-coded display of strike history
- Strike rate trend graph
- A symbol generator provides many strike symbols in different colors and sizes to choose from for your display
- Configurable close storm alarm, general severe storm alarm and severe stormcell alarm.
- Uses PC-speaker beeps or custom WAV-sounds for sound generation, the choice is yours.
- Display-range up to 600 km (375 miles), actual detector efficiency varies with antenna installation and surrounding
terrain
- Map zoom function, 600-200 km (375-125 miles) smooth and normal zoom-mode
- Antenna polar alignment correction, plus or minus 90° angular offset, correction resolution 1 degree. Also includes X-Y
swap for complete reversal. You can mount your Boltek receiver antenna pointed in any direction and compensate
for the offset from north via NexStorm settings. The change is instantaneous and visible to you while you are
correcting
- Ranging correction, a non-linear adjustment method for optimizing the strike distance averaging in one simple step so
that it correlates with your specific environment
- A Ranging Kernel user interface provides full control over how NexStorm will estimate strike distances. This feature is
multi-directional, there are eight 45 degree sectors that each have seven different ranging sections. These 56
sections are completely independent of each other and every section can have its own unique ranging configuration.
- StormVue-1, a light-weight Java applet for logical and clear presentation of your lightning-data on the web
- NexMap - small, easy-to-use application that helps you scale and adapt a map for use with NexStorm
- Sourcecode demonstrating FlashGate IPC access Click here to view Nexstorm Web Interface Live
