Mapping nonsquare and unevenly spaced 2-D SLDV data of an aircraft fuselage by using spatial DFT-IDFT techniques

The scanning laser Doppler vibrometry (SLVD) technique provides velocities of a structure at 2-dimensional (2-D) angularly evenly spaced (in the laser scanning sense) data points. This causes an enevenly spaced data point distribution on the surface of the test structure. In many cases evenly spaced data point distribution with square or rectangular grids is highly desirable. In this study the SLDV velocity data of a partial surface area of an aircraft fuselage were mapped to truly spatial evenly spaced coordinates by using the spatial DFT-IDFT technique with minimum distortion. This 2-D data mapping technique certainly is not limited to the fuselage, but can be very useful for many other 3-D structures. (C) 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.