THE USE OF DIFFERENT INTERPOLATION METHODS IN ESTIMATING ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER DENSITY

Abstract

With the development of technology the use of power-based working devices has rapidly become widespread. However, the biggest problem of the technological innovations which brought about is electromagnetic pollution continues to affect our lives in the same speed. Although we know from the literature that sources of electromagnetic pollution exist in every region of the electromagnetic frequency band, base stations have been shown to be the biggest cause of pollution. One of the most important reasons of the level of interference from electromagnetic pollution is the distance from the source of electromagnetic pollution. In this context, electromagnetic measurements are based on a limited number of measurements which are obtained at different distances from the source of the electromagnetic radiation. In this study, measurements which were taken at different distances from the base stations were examined. However, from a practical point of view, it was not possible to take measurements from different distances for each of the base stations. Therefore, to solve this problem, we used the interpolation method, which is a mathematical approach, to estimate the density of the electromagnetic force at intermediate distances. Different interpolation methods were used to determine electromagnetic power density at certain distances and to achieve the most accurate estimates. A success rate of 99.8 % was obtained using the cubic interpolation method. It was concluded that the interpolation method can be safely used to estimate electromagnetic power density.