Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 54, Issue 6, 20240589(2025)

Strip adjustment for airborne LiDAR bathymetry without control points combining rigid transformation and nonlinear correction

Xingguo GAO1, Doudou YAN2, Zengliang CHANG1, Chaoshuai YOU1, Haojie LAI3, Anxiu YANG3,4、*, Dianpeng SU3, and Fanlin YANG3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Corp., Ltd., Jinan 250013, China
  • 2Bureau of Hydrology and Water Resources Survey of the Upper Yangtze River, Chongqing 400021, China
  • 3College of Geodesy and Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
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    Figures & Tables(13)
    Overlap region extraction based on eight neighborhoods. (a) Spatial downsampling; (b) Schematic diagram of the eight-neighborhood algorithm; (c) Extraction of boundary results; (d) Overlapping area extraction
    Schematic diagram of matching points
    Schematic diagram of the determination of cross control points
    Flow chart of airborne LiDAR bathymetric strip adjustment under uncontrolled conditions
    Data overview. (a) Relative distribution of data; (b) Single-beam job sites; (c) ALB job site
    Distribution of profile locations
    The cross-sectional effect of the data before and after the airstrip adjustment. (a) Profile A; (b) Profile B
    The measured elevation deviation from the RTK point before and after the strip adjustment
    Bathymetric deviation from SBES points before and after the strip adjustment
    DEM after strip adjustment
    • Table 1. Mapper 20 KU airborne LiDAR bathymetry system main technical parameters

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      Table 1. Mapper 20 KU airborne LiDAR bathymetry system main technical parameters

      ParameterValue
      Scanning frequency/kHz20
      Bathymetric accuracy/mBetter than 0.3
      Field of view/mrad40
      Light spot/cm5 @50 m
      Weight/kg6.5
    • Table 2. Statistics of coincidence accuracy between flight strip before and after the strip adjustment

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      Table 2. Statistics of coincidence accuracy between flight strip before and after the strip adjustment

      DataEvaluation indicator$ S_{12}^{} $$ S_{23}^{} $$ S_{34}^{} $$ S_{45}^{} $Mean
      Before adjustmentMAE/m0.0920.0750.0920.0990.090
      RMSE/m0.1390.1060.1260.1390.128
      After adjustmentMAE/m0.0720.0580.0730.0750.068
      RMSE/m0.0990.0770.1050.1110.098
    • Table 3. Coincidence accuracy statistics of the airstrip adjustment

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      Table 3. Coincidence accuracy statistics of the airstrip adjustment

      LandUnderwater
      Max/mMin/mMean/mMAE/mRMSE/mMax/mMin/mMean/mMAE/mRMSE/m
      Raw data0.4140.0100.1790.1750.1870.7670.0090.2290.230.315
      After the adjustment by LiDAR3600.4190.0420.1780.1860.1970.7110.0050.2280.220.299
      After the constraint of control points0.1670.0010.0730.0710.0860.5830.0060.1760.1780.223
      The proposed method0.250.0010.0620.0810.0970.6270.0080.0980.1660.24
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    Xingguo GAO, Doudou YAN, Zengliang CHANG, Chaoshuai YOU, Haojie LAI, Anxiu YANG, Dianpeng SU, Fanlin YANG. Strip adjustment for airborne LiDAR bathymetry without control points combining rigid transformation and nonlinear correction[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2025, 54(6): 20240589

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    Paper Information

    Category: Laser

    Received: Dec. 19, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 16, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 1, 2025

    The Author Email: Anxiu YANG (skyanganxiu@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20240589

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