I need to find zero-crossings in a 1D array of a roughly periodic function. It will be the points where an orbiting satellite crosses the Earth's equator going north.
I've worked out a simple solution based on finding points where one value is zero or negative and the next is positive, then using a quadratic or cubic interpolator with scipy.optimize.brentq to find the nearby zeros.
The interpolator does not go beyond cubic, and before I learn to use a better interpolator I'd first like to check if there already exists a fast method in numpy or scipy to find all of the zero crossings in a large array (n = 1E+06 to 1E+09).
Question: So I'm asking does there already exist a faster method in numpy or scipy to find all of the zero crossings in a large array (n = 1E+06 to 1E+09) than the way I've done it here?
The plot shows the errors between the interpolated zeros and the actual value of the function, the smaller line is the cubic interpolation, the larger is quadratic.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.interpolate import interp1d
from scipy.optimize import brentq
def f(x):
return np.sin(x + np.sin(x*e)/e) # roughly periodic function
halfpi, pi, twopi = [f*np.pi for f in (0.5, 1, 2)]
e = np.exp(1)
x = np.arange(0, 10000, 0.1)
y = np.sin(x + np.sin(x*e)/e)
crossings = np.where((y[1:] > 0) * (y[:-1] <= 0))[0]
Qd = interp1d(x, y, kind='quadratic', assume_sorted=True)
Cu = interp1d(x, y, kind='cubic', assume_sorted=True)
x0sQd = [brentq(Qd, x[i-1], x[i+1]) for i in crossings[1:-1]]
x0sCu = [brentq(Cu, x[i-1], x[i+1]) for i in crossings[1:-1]]
y0sQd = [f(x0) for x0 in x0sQd]
y0sCu = [f(x0) for x0 in x0sCu]
if True:
plt.figure()
plt.plot(x0sQd, y0sQd)
plt.plot(x0sCu, y0sCu)
plt.show()