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Rayleigh Lidar Signal Denoising Method Combined with WT, EEMD and LOWESS to Improve Retrieval Accuracy

Journal

REMOTE SENSING
Volume 14, Issue 14, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14143270

Keywords

rayleigh lidar signal denoising; ensemble empirical mode decomposition; wavelet transform; locally weighted scatterplot smoothing; detrended fluctuation analysis; density retrieval; temperature retrieval

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [62175184]
  2. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology

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This paper proposes a method for denoising lidar signals using wavelet transform and ensemble empirical mode decomposition. The simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods in denoising effectiveness and significantly improves retrieval accuracy in actual measurements.
Lidar is an active remote sensing technology that has many advantages, but the echo lidar signal is extremely susceptible to noise and complex atmospheric environment, which affects the effective detection range and retrieval accuracy. In this paper, a wavelet transform (WT) and locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) based on ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) for Rayleigh lidar signal denoising was proposed. The WT method was used to remove the noise in the signal with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) higher than 16 dB. The EEMD method was applied to decompose the remaining signal into a series of intrinsic modal functions (IMFs), and then detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) was conducted to determine the threshold for distinguishing whether noise or signal was the main component of the IMFs. Moreover, the LOWESS method was adopted to remove the noise in the IMFs component containing the signal, and thus, finely extract the signal. The simulation results showed that the denoising effect of the proposed WT-EEMD-LOWESS method was superior to EEMD-WT, EEMD-SVD and VMD-WOA. Finally, the use of WT-EEMD-LOWESS on the measured lidar signal led to significant improvement in retrieval accuracy. The maximum error of density and temperature retrievals was decreased from 1.36% and 125.79 K to 1.1% and 13.84 K, respectively.

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