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HPWREN - Lightning Strike
This lightning strike hitting a tower happened next to the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) backbone site on Mount Laguna near San Diego, Calif. It was automatically collected by a networked motion-detect camera.
HPWREN is a National Science Foundation funded network research program that also functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure for research, education and first responder activities. It includes creating, demonstrating and evaluating a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. The network includes backbone nodes at the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University campuses, and a number of "hard to reach" areas in remote environments. (Date of Image: 2007) [One of several related images. See Next Image.]
Credit: High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) (http://hpwren.ucsd.edu); University of California, San Diego
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