Remote Sensing, Vol. 17, Pages 1689: Simultaneous Vibration and Nonlinearity Compensation for One-Period Triangular FMCW Ladar Signal Based on MSST

Remote Sensing doi: 10.3390/rs17101689

Authors:
Wei Li
Ruihua Shi
Qinghai Dong
Juanying Zhao
Bingnan Wang
Maosheng Xiang

When frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser radar (Ladar) is employed for three-dimensional imaging, the echo signal is susceptible to modulation nonlinearity and platform vibration due to modulation and the short wavelength. These effects cause main-lobe widening, side-lobe elevation, and positional shift, which degrades distance detection accuracy. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a compensation method combining multiple synchrosqueezing transform (MSST), equal-phase interval resampling, and high-order ambiguity function (HAF). Firstly, variational mode decomposition (VMD) is applied to the optical prism signal to eliminate low-frequency noise and harmonic peaks. MSST is used to extract the time–frequency curve of the optical prism. The nonlinearity in the transmitted signal is estimated by two-step integration. An internal calibration signal containing nonlinearity is constructed at a higher sampling rate to resample the actual signal at an equal-phase interval. Then, HAF compensates for high-order vibration and residual phase error after resampling. Finally, symmetrical triangle wave modulation is used to remove constant-speed vibration. Verifying by actual data, the proposed method can enhance the main lobe and suppress the side lobe about 1.5 dB for a strong reflection target signal. Natural-target peaks can also be enhanced and the remaining peaks are suppressed, which is helpful to extract an accurate target distance.

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