Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 2, 20220366(2023)

ICESat-2 lidar sea surface signal extraction and ocean wave element calculation

Zhibiao Zhou, Hui Zhou, Yue Ma, Yue Song, and Song Li
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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    Point cloud diagram of ATLAS
    Neighborhood diagram of calculating point density
    Flow chart of sea surface signal extraction
    Point cloud diagram after rough extraction
    Point cloud diagram after refined extraction
    The sea surface signal extraction results: the red points are the original point clouds, and the black points are the sea surface signal points extracted by the method in this paper. (a1) Daytime original point cloud; (a2) Extracted result of daytime point cloud; (b1) Nighttime original point cloud; (b2) Extracted result of nighttime point cloud
    (a) Result of obtaining the sea surface profile; (b) Enlarged view of the blue box area of the obtained result of the sea surface profile
    Amplitude-frequency diagram of sea surface profile obtained by FFT transformation
    • Table 1. Parameters and calculation results of the study area

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      Table 1. Parameters and calculation results of the study area

      ParametersSite 1Site 2Site 3Site 4Site 5Site 6Site 7
      Longitude (°E)110.79110.63110.59110.66109.72109.75109.79
      Latitude (°N)5.597.257.247.2617.0817.0817.08
      ATLAS beam numbergt2rgt2rgt1rgt1rgt1rgt2rgt3r
      TimeNightNightNightDayDayDayDay
      Water depth/m470190018501880180240300
      Wind speed/m·s−12.02.92.95.65.65.65.6
      Peak period calculated in this paper/s8.20 8.01 8.47 4.10 6.60 6.76 6.60
      ERA5 peak period/s8.108.078.074.486.566.566.56
      Absolute error/s0.10.060.400.380.040.20.04
      Relative error1.2%−0.7%4.9%−8.4%0.6%3.0%0.6%
    • Table 2. Comparison of peak wave period errors calculated by the method in this paper and the sea surface signal photons extracted with the official ATL03 high confidence data

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      Table 2. Comparison of peak wave period errors calculated by the method in this paper and the sea surface signal photons extracted with the official ATL03 high confidence data

      Signal photon’s sourceSite 1Site 2Site 3Site 4Site 5Site 6Site 7
      Data timeNightNightNightDayDayDayDay
      Calculated by this paper’s method1.20%−0.70%4.90%−8.40%0.60%3.00%0.60%
      Calculated based on ATL03 high confidence data0.37%−4.34%4.96%368.75%0.61%18.29%9.15%
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    Zhibiao Zhou, Hui Zhou, Yue Ma, Yue Song, Song Li. ICESat-2 lidar sea surface signal extraction and ocean wave element calculation[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2023, 52(2): 20220366

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers & Laser optics

    Received: May. 27, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 13, 2023

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20220366

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