The invention relates to a
lightning monitoring and early warning method and
system. The method comprises the steps of S1, detecting
atmosphere average electric fields,
optical radiation signals,
electric field changing signals,
magnetic field changing signals and GPS
satellite signals of an area to be monitored and conducting
signal conditioning and conversion, S2, judging whether the
electric field changing amount meets preset triggering conditions or not according to the
electric field changing signals, conducting
signal collection and storage and executing the step S3 if the electric field changing amount meets the preset triggering conditions, and refreshing and awaiting if the electric field changing amount does not meet the preset triggering conditions, S3, conducting waveform characteristic extraction on the collected
optical radiation signals, the collected electric field changing signals and the collected
magnetic field changing signals, conducting cloud-to-ground
lightning identification and location according to extracted characteristic parameters, and meanwhile storing and displaying the position of
lightning in a
geographic information system, the lightning time and waveforms of the
optical radiation signals, the electric field changing signals and the
magnetic field changing signals in the lightning process, and S4, generating early warning results according to cloud-to-ground lightning identification and location results and
atmosphere average electric field amplitudes, and giving an warning
signal according to the early warning results.