The invention discloses an efficient calculation method of a
radar scattering cross section of an inhomogeneous medium wrapped target. The method comprises the following steps: firstly equalizing the inhomogeneous medium into a layered homogeneous medium according to electromagnetic parameters; setting up a lighting model and selecting a three-dimensional viewpoint in an
OpenGL (open
graphics library) and inputting the three parts of information into a graph hardware processor; accomplishing the automatic shielding of a three-dimensional target by using the graph hardware processor; outputting a real-time target image and visible pixel information displayed on a computer screen after the automatic shielding, wherein the visible pixel information includes brightness values (R,G,B) and three-dimensional coordinates (x,y,z) of pixels; displaying medium interfaces at which rays arrive layer by layer in the
OpenGL according to the direction of incident electromagnetic
waves; extracting the brightness and the coordinate information of the pixels; determining the reflection and
refraction of the rays by combination of the electromagnetic parameters at two sides of the interface, so as to trace the direction of the rays and determine the incidence direction of incidence electromagnetic
waves of the pixels of the target when the rays arrives at a target body; in a loss medium, synchronously calculating the attenuation of each
ray on a transmission journey; and finally, calculating the
radar scattering cross section of the inhomogeneous medium wrapped target according to integrals of a physical
optical field and a boundary
diffraction field. The method has the advantages that a novel method for calculating
radar scattering characteristics of the inhomogeneous medium based on graphic display is provided, so that the defects that in a traditional calculation method, a large-sized medium cannot be calculated, and control in manual mode is difficulty are overcome.