title: Estimating field-of-view loss in bathymetric lidar: application to large-scale simulations.
abstract: When designing a bathymetric lidar, it is important to study simulated waveforms for various combinations of system and environmental parameters. To predict a system's ranging accuracy, it is often necessary to analyze thousands of waveforms. In these large-scale simulations, estimating field-of-view loss is a challenge because the calculation is complex and computationally intensive. This paper describes a new procedure for quickly approximating this loss, and illustrates how it can be used to efficiently predict ranging accuracy.
authors.forename: Domenic
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carr
authors.forename: Grady
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tuell