Inverse scattering problems with multifrequency data: Reconstruction capabilities and solution strategies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 1749-1756

  Bucci, O M ^a   Crocco, L ^a   Isernia, T ^a   Pascazio, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Istituto Universitario Navale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inverse scattering; Microwave tomology; Nonlinear inverse problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REMOTE SENSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEMS; MULTIFREQUENCY DATA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0034229324     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851974     Document Type: Article

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