Affiliation:
1. School of Physics, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Abstract
In this paper, we present a tailored shooting and bouncing ray (SBR) method for the fast solution of electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a moving target. And, the micro-Doppler features of the moving target are investigated using a time-frequency analysis technique. In our method, a dynamic spatial division technique is employed to accelerate facet information processing and ray-tracing progress of the moving target. At first, the two coordinate systems are established, which are the geodetic coordinate system (GCS) and the local coordinate system (LCS). In GCS, the target is moving with translation and rotation. The dynamic spatial division is established in LCS to store the facet information and remain relatively stationary to the target. In comparison with the traditional SBR method, this technique avoids repetitive spatial division at each moment in the GCS. Then, ray tracing is performed to find the illuminated facets in the LCS. Finally, the scattering field and the phase compensation are computed in the GCS. In numerical simulations, the verification and computation efficiency comparison are provided using our method and other solutions (MLFMM, RL-GO, and traditional SBR). Moreover, the micro-Doppler features are extracted and analyzed using the time-frequency analysis technique, which includes the precession and spin of the missile, and the rotation of the aircraft. Meanwhile, the micro-Doppler spectra of the target is also compared with the theoretical Doppler of equivalent strong scattering points, which are obtained using the instantaneous high-resolution range profile (HRRP).
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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