Analysis and correction of ocean wave pattern induced systematic coordinate errors in airborne LiDAR bathymetry

The results presented here form a basis for a more strict coordinate correction, if the wave pattern can be modeled from the LiDAR bathymetry water surface reflections or from other observations. Moreover, it will be shown that the induced coordinate errors contain a non-zero bias in addition to a local wave surface dependent quasi-random part, which allows for the formulation of wave pattern dependent correction terms in order to increase the accuracy of LiDAR bathymetry by removing systematic wave pattern dependent effects.