Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes

An innovative and efficient hybrid technique, which combines the Method of Moments (MoM) with Volume Meshed Shooting and Bouncing Ray (VSBR), is presented to analyze the scattering of metallic–dielectric mixed multi-scale structures in urban scenes. Additionally, the technique can rapidly generate r...

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Main Authors: Zhou Cong, Jihong Gu, Ying Zhang, Jie Yang, Dazhi Ding
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description An innovative and efficient hybrid technique, which combines the Method of Moments (MoM) with Volume Meshed Shooting and Bouncing Ray (VSBR), is presented to analyze the scattering of metallic–dielectric mixed multi-scale structures in urban scenes. Additionally, the technique can rapidly generate radar images at different angles, which is useful for the video remote sensing community. By dividing the mixed multi-scale targets into sub-regions, different solvers are employed to compute the scattering contributions based on their varying electrical sizes. For large-scale sub-regions, the VSBR method is employed on both the medium and metal parts, leading to a multilevel electromagnetic field including both the direct induced field and the multi-reflection field. This field contributes to the integral equation in the MoM sub-regions. Additionally, interactions from the MoM region are considered within the VSBR region, followed by a surface current integration to compute the scattered field. When addressing mixed multi-scale electromagnetic problems, this technique proves to be more efficient and easier to implement in general-purpose computer codes. Furthermore, this method is accelerated using the local coupling (LC) theory and fast multipole method (FMM). Using this fast computational method, efficient simulation results of radar images at different angles for the scenes can be obtained and the numerical results demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.
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spelling doaj-art-76092c163a11441fa445e7ac48fa0d252025-08-20T02:48:07ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922025-01-0117339810.3390/rs17030398Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban ScenesZhou Cong0Jihong Gu1Ying Zhang2Jie Yang3Dazhi Ding4School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210014, ChinaSchool of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210014, ChinaSchool of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210014, ChinaAn innovative and efficient hybrid technique, which combines the Method of Moments (MoM) with Volume Meshed Shooting and Bouncing Ray (VSBR), is presented to analyze the scattering of metallic–dielectric mixed multi-scale structures in urban scenes. Additionally, the technique can rapidly generate radar images at different angles, which is useful for the video remote sensing community. By dividing the mixed multi-scale targets into sub-regions, different solvers are employed to compute the scattering contributions based on their varying electrical sizes. For large-scale sub-regions, the VSBR method is employed on both the medium and metal parts, leading to a multilevel electromagnetic field including both the direct induced field and the multi-reflection field. This field contributes to the integral equation in the MoM sub-regions. Additionally, interactions from the MoM region are considered within the VSBR region, followed by a surface current integration to compute the scattered field. When addressing mixed multi-scale electromagnetic problems, this technique proves to be more efficient and easier to implement in general-purpose computer codes. Furthermore, this method is accelerated using the local coupling (LC) theory and fast multipole method (FMM). Using this fast computational method, efficient simulation results of radar images at different angles for the scenes can be obtained and the numerical results demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/3/398volume meshed ray tracingsurface currents iteratively updatingmulti-scale structuresradar image
spellingShingle Zhou Cong
Jihong Gu
Ying Zhang
Jie Yang
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Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes
Remote Sensing
volume meshed ray tracing
surface currents iteratively updating
multi-scale structures
radar image
title Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes
title_full Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes
title_fullStr Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes
title_full_unstemmed Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes
title_short Radar Scattering Analysis of Multi-Scale Complex Targets by Fast VSBR-MoM Method in Urban Scenes
title_sort radar scattering analysis of multi scale complex targets by fast vsbr mom method in urban scenes
topic volume meshed ray tracing
surface currents iteratively updating
multi-scale structures
radar image
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/3/398
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