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.