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Comparison of Accuracy of Interpolation Methods for Scattered Field of Large Objects: Sinc and VSH(Vector Spherical Harmonics) Functions

대규모 물체의 산란파 보간법 비교: Sinc 및 VSH(Vector Spherical Harmonics) 함수 보간법

  • Received : 2014.09.25
  • Accepted : 2014.11.29
  • Published : 2015.01.30
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Abstract

To estimate RCS(Radar Cross Section) at arbitrary incident angles for large objects, an interpolation method is required based on the pre-calculated RCS database at finite discrete sampling points. It is numerically difficult to compute the RCS by a large object at all required sampling points, since the computation time may be very long for one sampling point and many sampling points are required to satisfy the exact sampling condition. Therefore, it may be required to accurately estimate the RCS at any incident angles based on a database whose size is as small as possible. In this paper, the accuracy of two interpolation methods base on the sinc-and VSH(Vector Spherical Harmonics) functions are numerically compared.

대규모 물체의 RCS(Radar Cross Section)값을 임의의 각도에서 예측하기 위해, 미리 계산된 샘플링 지점 외 각도에서는 보간법을 사용한다. 대규모 물체의 경우, RCS 데이터베이스를 구성하기 위해 많은 입사각도에서 RCS값을 계산해야 한다. 이는 수치적으로 시간이 많이 걸려, 실질적으로 필요한 모든 입사각에서 RCS값을 미리 계산하기는 어렵다. 그러므로 가능한 적은 샘플을 이용하여 데이터베이스를 구축하고, 이를 보간하여 RCS값을 예측하는 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 계산된 RCS를 임의의 각도에서 예측하기 위한 보간법으로 Sinc 함수 및 VSH(Vector Spherical Harmonics) 함수를 이용한 방법을 고려하고, 그 정확성을 시뮬레이션을 통하여 검증한다.

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