Angular resolution of terrestrial laser scanners

Knowledge of a laser scanner's spatial resolution is necessary in order to prevent aliasing and estimate the level of detail that can be resolved from a scanned point cloud. Spatial resolution can be decoupled into range and angular components. The latter is the focus of this paper and is governed primarily by sampling interval and laser beamwidth. However, emphasis is often placed on one of these—typically sampling interval—as an indicator of resolution. Since both affect the resolution of a scanned point cloud, consideration of only one factor independent of the other can lead to a misunderstanding of a system's capabilities. This will be demonstrated to be inappropriate except under very specific conditions. A new, more appropriate resolution measure for laser scanners, the effective instantaneous field of view (EIFOV), is proposed. It is derived by modelling the shift variance of the equal angular increment sampling process, laser beamwidth-induced positional uncertainty and observed angle quantisation with ensemble average modulation transfer functions (AMTFs). Several commercially available terrestrial laser scanner systems are modelled and analysed in terms of their angular resolution capabilities using the EIFOV.     

海洋测深综合效应的多测线改正技术

提出了水深测量综合效应的多测线改正技术,通过分析水深测量中的波束角效应、地势效应及载体姿态变化对测深的影响,给出二维数字测深仪的详细设计方法,建立描述水深改正的指标,并用实际地形进行仿真。结果标明,该方法实用性强、改正效果明显。     

多波束系统数字测深模型设计

根据多波束系统工作原理,充分考虑波束角立体特性及海底地形的二维区域特征,给出多波束系统数字模型的详细设计步骤,并以实际海底水深数据进行检验。结果表明,该模型比较符合理论分析及实际情况,在仿真实验中可以模拟实际的多波束系统。