Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science

The Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science (한국전자파학회)
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A Modeling Process of Equivalent Terrains for Reduced Simulation Complexity in Radar Scene Matching Applications

  • Byun, Gangil (Research Institute of Science and Technology, Hongik University) ;
  • Hwang, Kyu-Young (Agency for Defense Development) ;
  • Park, Hyeon-Gyu (Agency for Defense Development) ;
  • Kim, Sunwoo (Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Choo, Hosung (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
  • Received : 2017.01.03
  • Accepted : 2017.02.22
  • Published : 2017.04.30
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Abstract

This study proposes a modeling process of equivalent terrains to reduce the computational load and time of a full-wave electromagnetic (EM) simulation. To verify the suitability of the proposed process, an original terrain model with a size of $3m{\times}3m$ is equivalently quantized based on the minimum range resolution of a radar, and the radar image of the quantized model is compared with that of the original model. The results confirm that the simulation time can be reduced from 407 hours to 162 hours without a significant distortion of the radar images, and an average estimation error of the quantized model (20.4 mm) is similar to that of the original model (20.3 mm).

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