3. Analysis and Findings
ISS LIS has operated successfully for more than three years. Among many
other accomplishments, all major science objectives for the instrument
have been achieved. In addition, a climatology of global lightning has
been produced and compared to similar datasets. Cross-platform
validation against other datasets has been performed, and new
cross-platform science applications are being developed. Finally, a
diverse user community is developing due to applications enabled by
near-realtime ISS LIS data. These results are summarized in the
subsections below.