A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection

A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection

A macro-pulse photon counting Lidar is described in this paper, which was designed to implement long-range and high-speed moving target detection. The ToF extraction method for the macro-pulse photon counting Lidar system is proposed. The performance of the macro pulse method and the traditional pul...

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Main Authors: Yang Yu, Bo Liu, Zhen Chen, ZhiKang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
Lidar
photon counting
macro pulse
pulse accumulation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/8/2204
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spelling doaj-709b3a199a5e41dfae9826e275706e042020-11-25T02:23:52ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-04-01202204220410.3390/s20082204A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target DetectionYang Yu0Bo Liu1Zhen Chen2ZhiKang Li3Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, ChinaInstitute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, ChinaInstitute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, ChinaInstitute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, ChinaA macro-pulse photon counting Lidar is described in this paper, which was designed to implement long-range and high-speed moving target detection. The ToF extraction method for the macro-pulse photon counting Lidar system is proposed. The performance of the macro pulse method and the traditional pulse accumulation method were compared in theory and simulation experiments. The results showed that the performance of the macro-pulse method was obviously better than that of the pulse accumulation method. At the same time, a laboratory verification platform for long range and high-speed moving targets was built. The experimental results were highly consistent with the theoretical and simulation results. This proved that the macro pulse photon counting Lidar is an effective method to measure long range high-speed moving targets.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/8/2204Lidarphoton countingmacro pulsepulse accumulation
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author Yang Yu
Bo Liu
Zhen Chen
ZhiKang Li
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Bo Liu
Zhen Chen
ZhiKang Li
A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection
Sensors
Lidar
photon counting
macro pulse
pulse accumulation
author_facet Yang Yu
Bo Liu
Zhen Chen
ZhiKang Li
author_sort Yang Yu
title A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection
title_short A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection
title_full A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection
title_fullStr A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection
title_full_unstemmed A Macro-Pulse Photon Counting Lidar for Long-Range High-Speed Moving Target Detection
title_sort macro-pulse photon counting lidar for long-range high-speed moving target detection
publisher MDPI AG
series Sensors
issn 1424-8220
publishDate 2020-04-01
description A macro-pulse photon counting Lidar is described in this paper, which was designed to implement long-range and high-speed moving target detection. The ToF extraction method for the macro-pulse photon counting Lidar system is proposed. The performance of the macro pulse method and the traditional pulse accumulation method were compared in theory and simulation experiments. The results showed that the performance of the macro-pulse method was obviously better than that of the pulse accumulation method. At the same time, a laboratory verification platform for long range and high-speed moving targets was built. The experimental results were highly consistent with the theoretical and simulation results. This proved that the macro pulse photon counting Lidar is an effective method to measure long range high-speed moving targets.
topic Lidar
photon counting
macro pulse
pulse accumulation
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/8/2204
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