Influence analysis and calibration of laser pointing for airborne Doppler lidar

The radial velocity deviation and the horizontal wind accuracy from multi view retrieval are simulated and analysed with considering the characteistics of lidar measurement mode and the influence from the accuracy of flight attitude. The resluts show the wind measurement accuracy is less than 0.3 m/s under the input values in paper and disregarding the frequency discrimination error from lidar system. This is useful for the platform design of airborne lidar and the determation of wind measurement mode. Beside these,a new method based on ground return measurement for laser pointing calibration is proposed, and the calibration accuracy is better than 0.2° through the analysis of measurement data of airborne doppler lidar.