Abstract
Although there are rapid developments of underwater robotics vehicles in recent years, the underwater visual sensing or/and underwater imaging is still regarded as a major undertaking challenge, particularly in turbid water condition. Currently, a divergent-beam underwater Lidar imaging (UWLI) system has been finished and it precisely captured nano-seconds fast-gated images in highly turbid water. This permits the receiver to collect only the image-containing light pulse returned by the target and thus reduce the water-scattering related noise of underwater image dramatically. The end result is greatly improved intensity and contrast of the detected images. Based on our newly designed series targets, we are the first to successfully demonstrate UWLI in such a short 3 m water tank, and show the fast range-gated phenomenon in water much more clearly. The attenuation coefficients in turbid waters are 1.0 m and 2.3 m −1, respectively.
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