Sliding window Gaussian fitting algorithm for ranging error suppression of full-waveform spaceborne laser

doi:10.11947/j.AGCS.2021.20200466

Abstract

Abstract: The ranging accuracy of spaceborne laser altimeter is one of the main sources that affect the geometric calibration and processing accuracy of the laser.Aiming at the issues of laser ranging extraction lower accuracy and the stability, caused by the quantization error of the full-waveform spaceborne laser analog signal after digital processing, so a sliding window Gaussian fitting algorithm for ranging error suppression of full-waveform spaceborne laser is proposed.This method uses a sliding window to eliminate noise points near the peak, and optimizes the peak value of the waveform to extract a more accurate ranging value.Finally, the GF-7 laser altimeter was used as the test object, the relative and absolute accuracy of laser elevation were compared and verified by using the ice surface, inland lake and the flat ground.The results indicate that, the laser ranging accuracy of the paper algorithm is improved by 7.5 cm compared with the general peak method. Based on the ranging value of the paper method, the relative accuracy of laser elevation is improved by 4.3 cm. The absolute accuracy of laser elevation is increased by 4.5 cm verified by airborne LiDAR point cloud data. Which fully shows that the method in this paper can be used as a method to reduce effectively the random error of laser ranging, and provides an indispensable foundation for the sub-meter elevation measurement accuracy of the GF-7 satellite.

Key words: full-waveform spaceborne laser, ranging accuracy, waveform peak method, sliding window, relative accuracy, absolute accuracy

CLC Number:

P236

XIE Junfeng, LIU Ren. Sliding window Gaussian fitting algorithm for ranging error suppression of full-waveform spaceborne laser[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2021, 50(9): 1240-1250.

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