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Dr. Richard E. Orville collected the first lightning strike direction finder measurements in the northeast when a meteorologist at State Univeristy of New York at Albany.
Other universities added instrumentation and joined together to create the National Lightning Detection Network or NLDN. Insurance companies found out it was possible to
tell if lightning strikes occurred near a claim (killed cattle or burned down houses). In the early 1980's up 60% of the lightning started houses fire claims were incorrect.
Universities were not set up to respond to insurance company requests. The NLDN was sold to and upgraded by Vaisala, a Helsinki based meteorological instrumentation company.
Today the NLDN data is used by insurance companies to confirm claims, by meteorologists to show storm intensity and provide early storm warnings to airports and golf courses,
and for safety warnings. Dynamic Measurement LLC (DML) is pioneering use of lightning data analysis as a new geophysical data type to explore for natural resources.

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