摘要： In this letter, a hyperspectral light detection and ranging (HSL) with 10-nm spectral resolution was designed and tested using a supercontinuum laser source. The major difference between the prototyped HSL and similar instruments was that a liquid crystal tunable ?lter (LCTF) was installed before the avalanche photodiode detector and utilized as a spectroscopic device. The design allowed continuous wavelength selection of the backscattered echoes in the time dimension. Moreover, for general accuracy evaluation of range measurement and spectral measurement, laboratory experiments for vegetation red edge detection were performed using the prototyped HSL to assess its feasibility on agriculture application. Yellow and green leaves from aloe and dracaena plants were measured by the LCTF-HSL for detecting the corresponding “red edge” position. Spectral pro?les measured by an SVC-HR-1024 spectrometer which is designed by SVC company were used as a reference to evaluate the measurements of HSL. The comparison results showed that the red edge positions extracted from the two individual measurements were similar, thus indicating that the LCTF-based high-resolution HSL was effective for this application.