《summary of Laserbathymetry》.docx

The summary of airborne laser bathymetry Abstract In this summary, we discussed the basic conditions of Airborne Laser Bathymetry (ALB), including background, fundamental, development history, current status and the challenge we will face as well. Compared to sonar, ALB is more suitable for relatively clear and low areas, this singularity of advantage propel the high speed development of ALB. Due to the high-tech prosperity of ALB, few countries have mastered this technology, and its quite suitable to take mature systems like LADS and SHOALS as examples. In fact, unfortunately, we ignored some issues that is urged to be solved such like erratic analysis and higher resolution. Considering the current limitation of specialty knowledge and future studies, this pity will be made up. Background Airborne laser (or lidar) bathymetry (ALB) is a technique for measuring the depths of moderately clear, near-shore coastal waters and lakes from a low-altitude aircraft using a scanning, pulsed laser beam. 机载激光器(激光雷达)深度测量法(ALB)是一种测量水深的技术，通过从低空飞行器使用脉冲扫描激光光束，可以测量一些相对清澈的水域深度,同样也适用于近岸沿海水域和湖泊。 Before the release of ALB, there exist many techniques conducting sounding and underwater topographic survey. However, many defects prelude further develop. For example, sonar systems are less efficient and can even be dangerous to operate on relatively shallow areas such as coastlines. Unlike the situation with sonar where the speed of sound is a sometimes elusive quantity and can lead to large depth errors, the speed of light in water is only a very weak function of salinity and temperature and can be easily handled, for example, with three crudely differentiated values representing “fresh”, “brackish”, and “salty. In spite of some many advantages of ALB over sonar, ALB is not a substitute for sonar because ALB surveys are limited by water clarity and depth. 在ALB推出之前,业界已经存在很多技术用于探测和水下地形测量。然而,现有技术有一些不足，阻碍了进一步发展。例如,声纳系统的效率较低,在相对较浅的海岸线等领域，操作起来非常危险。并且，声音的速度是一个有时难以捉摸的变量，可产生较大误差,与声纳不同,光在水中传播的速度只是一