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Articles | Volume XLII-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-2495-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-2495-2018
02 May 2018
 | 02 May 2018

IMPROVEMENT ON TIMING ACCURACY OF LIDAR FOR REMOTE SENSING

G. Zhou, W. Huang, X. Zhou, Y. Huang, C. He, X. Li, and L. Zhang

Keywords: Laser rangefinding, Leading-edge timing discrimination, Walk error, MATLAB, Lidar data quality

Abstract. The traditional timing discrimination technique for laser rangefinding in remote sensing, which is lower in measurement performance and also has a larger error, has been unable to meet the high precision measurement and high definition lidar image. To solve this problem, an improvement of timing accuracy based on the improved leading-edge timing discrimination (LED) is proposed. Firstly, the method enables the corresponding timing point of the same threshold to move forward with the multiple amplifying of the received signal. Then, timing information is sampled, and fitted the timing points through algorithms in MATLAB software. Finally, the minimum timing error is calculated by the fitting function. Thereby, the timing error of the received signal from the lidar is compressed and the lidar data quality is improved. Experiments show that timing error can be significantly reduced by the multiple amplifying of the received signal and the algorithm of fitting the parameters, and a timing accuracy of 4.63 ps is achieved.