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New developments in the application of inverse scattering to target recognition and remote sensing

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Various approaches to the solution of the inverse scattering problem are discussed here, and illustrated by selected examples. Inverse scattering, having originated with quantum mechanical scattering problems, has more recently become of interest in acoustic and electromagnetic areas, in geophysics as well as in oceanography. These topics will be described here both based on general approaches, or more specifically as based on the use of target resonances, or of surface waves on the target.

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  1. LMP, CNRS 867, Université Bordeaux I, F-33405, Talence, France (U.E.)

    A. Gérard

  2. HEDCO 216, University of Southern California, 90089-1211, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    A. Guran

  3. LAUE, CNRS 1373, Université du Havre, F-76610, Le Havre, France (U.E.)

    G. Maze & J. Ripoche

  4. Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, 20064, Washington, DC, USA

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Gérard, A., Guran, A., Maze, G., Ripoche, J., Überall, H. (1997). New developments in the application of inverse scattering to target recognition and remote sensing. In: Chavent, G., Sabatier, P.C. (eds) Inverse Problems of Wave Propagation and Diffraction. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 486. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0105770

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