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Remote Sensing Technology and Application  2011, Vol. 26 Issue (3): 392-398    DOI: 10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2011.3.392
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Development and Applications of Airborne LiDAR Profilometer
REN Xiu-yun,LIU Li-bao,YANG Jun-guo,WANG Jing,TIAN Zhao-shuo
(Institute of Optoelectronic Technology Information,Harbin Institute ofTechnology at Weihai,Weihai 264209,China)
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Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) profile measurement technology is an advanced active remote sensing technology,including airborne LiDAR altimetry,and airborne LiDAR bathymetry.It can provide high resolution three dimensional topography,hydrography and forestry in large area,and has the advantages of accuracy,flexibility,efficiency,speediness.Airborne LiDAR profilometer can be used in fields as bathymetric surveys of large offshore areas and shorelines,coast ecological monitoring,the forest resource investigation and evaluation,and rapid response in natural hazard relief works and so on,has great application potential and broad development prospects.Firstly,a comprehensive summarization for the developments in recent years of airborne LiDAR profilometer abroad is presented,including LiDAR altimeter and LiDAR bathymeter,and comment on each phases is shown,and then the development status of this technology at home followed.Secondly,the main applications of airborne LiDAR altimetry and LiDAR bathymetry are discussed.Finally,the developing prospect in future of this technique is analyzed,wish to contribute to the improvement of airborne LiDAR profile measurement technology.

Key words:  LiDAR      Airborne      Profilometer     
Received:  12 October 2010      Published:  23 January 2013
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REN Xiu-yun,LIU Li-bao,YANG Jun-guo,WANG Jing,TIAN Zhao-shuo. Development and Applications of Airborne LiDAR Profilometer. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 2011, 26(3): 392-398.

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