Study on lidar received backscattering signals using Monte Carlo method

Hui Yang; Kecheng Yang; Yong Ma; Jinzhang Lin

doi:10.1117/12.466788

8 May 2003 Study on lidar received backscattering signals using Monte Carlo method

Hui Yang, Kecheng Yang, Yong Ma, Jinzhang Lin

Proceedings Volume 4892, Ocean Remote Sensing and Applications; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.466788
Event: Third International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment, and Space, 2002, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

In this paper, an improved semi-analytic Monte Carlo method is used to simulate the lidar received backscattering signals. The H-G function is used to approximate the scattering phase function of seawater, from which we can derive the scattering angle directly, and a modified H-G function is used to calculate the probability of the photons received by the receiver at each scattering point, which greatly improves the accuracy of the simulation. The simulation result shows that the different parameters of air-sea system of lidar, such as lidar’s field of view, attenuation coefficient and single scattering albedo of seawater, greatly influence the lidar received backscattering signal waveform. Multiple scattering is studied to explain these phenomena.

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Hui Yang, Kecheng Yang, Yong Ma, and Jinzhang Lin "Study on lidar received backscattering signals using Monte Carlo method", Proc. SPIE 4892, Ocean Remote Sensing and Applications, (8 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.466788

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