Journal of Terahertz Science and Electronic Information Technology , Volume. 23, Issue 6, 610(2025)
Accelerated implementation of locating lightning radiation sources based on time reversal technique
To address the issue of high computational load and long processing time in the imaging calculation process of lightning radiation sources using time-reversal algorithms in the frequency domain, a series of optimized acceleration methods for time-reversal algorithms are proposed. Firstly, the introduction of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) parallel computing is further expanded to dual-GPU cluster computing, while adopting multi-threading concurrent programming methods of Central Processing Unit (CPU) and GPU to cover the time consumption caused by mutual waiting; secondly, the maximum energy search algorithm and phase difference filtering algorithm and other programs are written to the GPU to achieve parallel search and calculation of phase difference values; finally, the data acquisition and transmission module, GPU processing module, and positioning imaging module are integrated to achieve the integrated function from data collection to positioning imaging of lightning data. For a 500 ms segment of Very High Frequency (VHF) lightning data, the actual measurement only takes 18 minutes, which is about 703 times faster than the previous CPU single-line processing process, and the number of effective positioning points is only reduced by 9.3%.
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DU Shuangjiang, SHI Lihua, QIU Shi, LI Yun, ZHAO Yingcheng. Accelerated implementation of locating lightning radiation sources based on time reversal technique[J]. Journal of Terahertz Science and Electronic Information Technology , 2025, 23(6): 610
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Received: Nov. 7, 2023
Accepted: Jul. 30, 2025
Published Online: Jul. 30, 2025
The Author Email: SHI Lihua (lihuashi@aliyun.com)