Dynamic radar cross section similarity study based on dynamic time warping

Abstract Dynamic radar cross-section (RCS) represents the radar reflectance cross-section of an aircraft at different moments during flight and is a crucial criterion for evaluating the ability of a radar to detect an aircraft. In practice, it is challenging to construct an accurate 6-DOF dynamics model for the purpose of solving its dynamic RCS. Consequently, a 3-DOF dynamics model is employed for the analysis of dynamic RCS. This paper presents a methodology for the joint simulation of the dynamic RCS under two DOF models and subsequent comparison and analysis of the resulting sequence data via the dynamic time warping algorithm. It is also concluded that the dynamic RCS values calculated using the 3-DOF dynamics model can identify the target vehicle.