Electromagnetic Scattering and Imaging Simulation of Extremely Large-Scale Sea-Ship Scene Based on GPU Parallel Technology

Abstract

Aim to solve the bottleneck problem of electromagnetic scattering simulation in the scenes of extremely large-scale seas and ships, a high-frequency method by using graphics processing unit (GPU) parallel acceleration technique is proposed. For the implementation of different electromagnetic methods of physical optics (PO), shooting and bouncing ray (SBR) and physical theory of diffraction (PTD), a parallel computing scheme based on the CPU-GPU parallel computing scheme is realized to balance computing tasks. Finally, a multi-GPU framework is further proposed to solve the computational difficulty caused by large number of ray tubes in the ray tracing process. By using the established simulation platform, signals of ships at different seas are simulated and their images are achieved as well. It is shown that the higher sea states degrade the averaged peak signal-to-noise ratios (PSNR) of radar image.