Lightning protection systems use large copper cables that are installed high in the tree, down the trunk and into a trench in the ground that leads away from the tree where the cable is connected ...

Lightning is often ... using a custom-built system with electric field sensors and cameras to track lightning strikes. They also studied decades’ worth of tree plot records.

Scientists discover trees in the lowland ... Using a custom-built system of electric field sensors and cameras to track strikes, researchers studied nearly 100 lightning events in Panama ...