Design of a New Multispectral Waveform LiDAR Instrument to Monitor Vegetation

A multispectral full-waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR) instrument prototype with four wavelengths and a supercontinuum laser as a light source was designed to monitor the fine structure and the biochemical parameters of vegetation. Components of the instrument included a 2-D scanning plat...

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Published in:IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters 2015-07, Vol.12 (7), p.1506-1510
Main Authors: Niu, Zheng, Xu, Zhigang, Sun, Gang, Huang, Wenjiang, Wang, Li, Feng, Mingbo, Li, Wang, He, Wenbin, Gao, Shuai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biochemical
Distance measurement
full waveform
Instruments
Laser radar
Lasers
light detection and ranging (LiDAR)
Measurement by laser beam
multispectral
Optical sensors
Remote sensing
Vegetation
Vegetation mapping
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Summary:A multispectral full-waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR) instrument prototype with four wavelengths and a supercontinuum laser as a light source was designed to monitor the fine structure and the biochemical parameters of vegetation. Components of the instrument included a 2-D scanning platform, a supercontinuum laser source, a receiving optical system, and a multichannel full-waveform measurement module. The LiDAR instrument can simultaneously measure multichannel-returned full-waveform laser signals. Position information in the recorded waveform allowed us to compute the distance from the target, whereas the intensity of the signal provided the spectral reflectance. Performance for the measuring distance and the spectrum was evaluated. Experiments indicated that the instrument has high measurement accuracy and has the ability to detect the biochemical characteristics of vegetation via construction of the normalized difference vegetation index and the photochemical reflectance index. The experiment also indicated that the instrument has the potential to generate spectral 3-D point clouds. Therefore, the instrument could play a significant role in detecting the vertical distribution of structural and biochemical characteristics of vegetation.
ISSN:1545-598X
1558-0571
DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2015.2410788