The reconstruction of dielectric properties of buried objects amounts to the solution of a nonlinear inverse scattering problem whose data are aspect limited in both space and frequency domains. We investigate how these points entails that only a limited number of dielectric profile functions can be reliably reconstructed. Moreover the influence of the model adopted to approximate the relationship between the dielectric properties of buried object and the scattered field is also pointed out, with reference to simpler canonical inverse scattering problems.

Date Published: 27 April 2000
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 4084, Eighth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, (27 April 2000); doi: 10.1117/12.383539

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4084:
Eighth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar
David A. Noon; Glen F. Stickley; Dennis Longstaff, Editor(s)