Review of airborne oceanic lidar remote sensing

Abstract

Airborne oceanic lidars act as an active remote sensing technique have been proved to be one of the most effective and reliable means of oceanic profile remote sensing. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the principles, methodologies, applications, and prospects of oceanic lidar remote sensing. A survey of the previous studies and works related to these techniques is presented in this paper, emphasizing the different mechanism in system design as well as data processing algorithms and their applications in the remote sensing of oceanic environmental parameters. The airborne lidar systems with multi-channels are designed to significantly improve the data quality and resolution of oceanic biological and geographic profiles. Algorithms for biological product retrieval and simulation based on typical radiation transfer models are described here to stimulate future research into ocean biogeochemistry. The advancement of airborne lidar applications in the near future is also presented.

Keywords

Airborne lidar / Ocean remote sensing / Oceanic lidar

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2106210)

National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFB3901705)

Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2021QD052)