We develop an efficient method for polished metallic sphere's scattering prediction in terahertz band when its frequency dispersion property is considered. By deducing scattering solution of the lossy metallic sph...We develop an efficient method for polished metallic sphere's scattering prediction in terahertz band when its frequency dispersion property is considered. By deducing scattering solution of the lossy metallic sphere, the radar cross section(RCS)of different metallic spheres is given at terahertz frequencies. The investigation of the RCS of polished metallic spheres shows the normalized RCS is always same to the metals' normal incidence reflectivity when the sphere becomes electrically large. The metals which have high reflectivity(such as Al, Cu, Ag and Au) show that the corresponding RCS of the spheres is almost πa2 in terahertz band. The sphere's RCS of the transition metal such as Fe begins to decrease obviously since the far infrared.展开更多
In this paper, the drawbacks of conventional target fluctuation models used in radar target modeling are set out. It is usually difficult to statistically model a real target because there are very few parameters whic...In this paper, the drawbacks of conventional target fluctuation models used in radar target modeling are set out. It is usually difficult to statistically model a real target because there are very few parameters which can be used to approximate the probability density function (PDF) of a real target’s radar cross section (RCS) in conventional target models. A new method of statistical modeling is suggested, according to which the first nth central moment of real target’s RCS, combined with the Legendre orthogonal polynomials, is used to reconstruct the PDF of the target’s RCS. The relationship between the coefficients of the Legendre polynomials and the central moments of RCS are deduced mathematically. Through a practical computing example, the error-of-fit is shown as a function of the orders of Legendre coefficients. By comparing the errors-of-fit caused by both the new model and the conventional models, it is concluded that the new nonparametric method for statistical modeling of radar targets is展开更多
When modeling a stealth aircraft with low RCS(Radar Cross Section), conventional parameter estimation methods may cause a deviation from the actual distribution, owing to the fact that the characteristic parameters ar...When modeling a stealth aircraft with low RCS(Radar Cross Section), conventional parameter estimation methods may cause a deviation from the actual distribution, owing to the fact that the characteristic parameters are estimated via directly calculating the statistics of RCS. The Bayesian–Markov Chain Monte Carlo(Bayesian-MCMC) method is introduced herein to estimate the parameters so as to improve the fitting accuracies of fluctuation models. The parameter estimations of the lognormal and the Legendre polynomial models are reformulated in the Bayesian framework. The MCMC algorithm is then adopted to calculate the parameter estimates. Numerical results show that the distribution curves obtained by the proposed method exhibit improved consistence with the actual ones, compared with those fitted by the conventional method. The fitting accuracy could be improved by no less than 25% for both fluctuation models, which implies that the Bayesian-MCMC method might be a good candidate among the optimal parameter estimation methods for stealth aircraft RCS models.展开更多
t According to a general representation of physical scale factor of RCS for variance in the size of simply shaped scatterers, a novel RCS model-testing method is described. The computed results of the prototype scatte...t According to a general representation of physical scale factor of RCS for variance in the size of simply shaped scatterers, a novel RCS model-testing method is described. The computed results of the prototype scatterers by this method from the model-testing agree well with their measured values both for two kinds of simply shaped scatterers, cylinders and ladder-shaped plates.展开更多
Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can ...Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can give high wind resolution cells. For this purpose, one can find two principal approaches: via electromagnetic (EM) models and empirical (EP) models. In both approaches, the Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) are used to describe the relation of radar scattering, wind speed, and the geometry of observations. By knowing radar scattering and geometric parameters, it is possible to invert the GMFs to retrieve wind speed. It is very interesting to compare wind speed estimated by the EM models, general descriptions of radar scattering from sea surface, to the one estimated by the EP models, specific descriptions for the inverse problem. Based on the comparisons, some ideas are proposed to improve the performance of the EM models for wind speed retrieval.展开更多
现代谱估计方法能够反演基于几何绕射理论(geometric theory of diffraction,GTD)的模型参数,但不能处理非均匀不完备的雷达散射截面(radar cross section,RCS)数据。此外,通过暗室测量获取完备的RCS数据也需要较大的时空开销。针对上...现代谱估计方法能够反演基于几何绕射理论(geometric theory of diffraction,GTD)的模型参数,但不能处理非均匀不完备的雷达散射截面(radar cross section,RCS)数据。此外,通过暗室测量获取完备的RCS数据也需要较大的时空开销。针对上述问题,提出一种基于迭代加权最小二乘(iteratively reweighed least squares,IRLS)的跳频模式下GTD散射参数提取和RCS重构方法。该方法将稀疏重构理论与GTD散射模型相结合,能够在RCS数据非均匀不完备的条件下反演散射参数和实现RCS重构。仿真数据和电磁计算数据用于验证所提方法的有效性,实验结果表明该方法对降低暗室步进频率RCS的测量成本和扩增雷达RCS数据具有重要意义。展开更多
基金supported by the National Science Fund for Young Scientists of China(6130214861571011)
文摘We develop an efficient method for polished metallic sphere's scattering prediction in terahertz band when its frequency dispersion property is considered. By deducing scattering solution of the lossy metallic sphere, the radar cross section(RCS)of different metallic spheres is given at terahertz frequencies. The investigation of the RCS of polished metallic spheres shows the normalized RCS is always same to the metals' normal incidence reflectivity when the sphere becomes electrically large. The metals which have high reflectivity(such as Al, Cu, Ag and Au) show that the corresponding RCS of the spheres is almost πa2 in terahertz band. The sphere's RCS of the transition metal such as Fe begins to decrease obviously since the far infrared.
文摘In this paper, the drawbacks of conventional target fluctuation models used in radar target modeling are set out. It is usually difficult to statistically model a real target because there are very few parameters which can be used to approximate the probability density function (PDF) of a real target’s radar cross section (RCS) in conventional target models. A new method of statistical modeling is suggested, according to which the first nth central moment of real target’s RCS, combined with the Legendre orthogonal polynomials, is used to reconstruct the PDF of the target’s RCS. The relationship between the coefficients of the Legendre polynomials and the central moments of RCS are deduced mathematically. Through a practical computing example, the error-of-fit is shown as a function of the orders of Legendre coefficients. By comparing the errors-of-fit caused by both the new model and the conventional models, it is concluded that the new nonparametric method for statistical modeling of radar targets is
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61101173)the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.613206)+1 种基金the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2012AA01A308)the State Scholarship Fund by the China Scholarship Council(CSC),and the Oversea Academic Training Funds,and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC)
文摘When modeling a stealth aircraft with low RCS(Radar Cross Section), conventional parameter estimation methods may cause a deviation from the actual distribution, owing to the fact that the characteristic parameters are estimated via directly calculating the statistics of RCS. The Bayesian–Markov Chain Monte Carlo(Bayesian-MCMC) method is introduced herein to estimate the parameters so as to improve the fitting accuracies of fluctuation models. The parameter estimations of the lognormal and the Legendre polynomial models are reformulated in the Bayesian framework. The MCMC algorithm is then adopted to calculate the parameter estimates. Numerical results show that the distribution curves obtained by the proposed method exhibit improved consistence with the actual ones, compared with those fitted by the conventional method. The fitting accuracy could be improved by no less than 25% for both fluctuation models, which implies that the Bayesian-MCMC method might be a good candidate among the optimal parameter estimation methods for stealth aircraft RCS models.
文摘t According to a general representation of physical scale factor of RCS for variance in the size of simply shaped scatterers, a novel RCS model-testing method is described. The computed results of the prototype scatterers by this method from the model-testing agree well with their measured values both for two kinds of simply shaped scatterers, cylinders and ladder-shaped plates.
文摘Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can give high wind resolution cells. For this purpose, one can find two principal approaches: via electromagnetic (EM) models and empirical (EP) models. In both approaches, the Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) are used to describe the relation of radar scattering, wind speed, and the geometry of observations. By knowing radar scattering and geometric parameters, it is possible to invert the GMFs to retrieve wind speed. It is very interesting to compare wind speed estimated by the EM models, general descriptions of radar scattering from sea surface, to the one estimated by the EP models, specific descriptions for the inverse problem. Based on the comparisons, some ideas are proposed to improve the performance of the EM models for wind speed retrieval.
文摘现代谱估计方法能够反演基于几何绕射理论(geometric theory of diffraction,GTD)的模型参数,但不能处理非均匀不完备的雷达散射截面(radar cross section,RCS)数据。此外,通过暗室测量获取完备的RCS数据也需要较大的时空开销。针对上述问题,提出一种基于迭代加权最小二乘(iteratively reweighed least squares,IRLS)的跳频模式下GTD散射参数提取和RCS重构方法。该方法将稀疏重构理论与GTD散射模型相结合,能够在RCS数据非均匀不完备的条件下反演散射参数和实现RCS重构。仿真数据和电磁计算数据用于验证所提方法的有效性,实验结果表明该方法对降低暗室步进频率RCS的测量成本和扩增雷达RCS数据具有重要意义。
