激光雷达系统仿真具有重要的经济价值和广阔的应用前景。重点介绍了国外典型成像激光雷达建模仿真软件的研究进展，研究了其仿真原理、方法、功能和试验验证等有关情况，总结了激光雷达建模仿真的作用与意义，对下一步研究和发展方向进行了思考，可为仿真软件研发思路与方法提供借鉴。

The simulation of laser radar system has important values and wide application foreground. This paper focuses emphatically on the research advances of foreign typical imaging ladar simulation softwares, discusses their simulation principles, methods, functions and test validations and so on, and then summarizes the functions and meanings of laser radar modeling and simulation. At last this paper puts forward the development orientation. It can provide references for the next research thinking and methods.