Shape reconstruction of perfectly conducting objects by multiview experimental data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Soldovieri, Francesco ^a   Brancaccio, Adriana ^b   Leone, Giovanni ^c   Pierri, Rocco ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic inverse scattering; Experimental data; Linear inversion; Physical optics (PO) approximation; Shape reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INVERSE SCATTERING; LINEAR INVERSION; PHYSICAL OPTICS (PO); SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 12844278826     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.839432     Document Type: Article

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