Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Point Scatterers for Computational Time-reversal Imaging
Shi, Gang ; Nehorai, Arye
Commun. Inf. Syst., Tome 05 (2005) no. 2, p. 227-256 / Harvested from Project Euclid
We present a statistical framework for the fixed-frequency computational time-reversal imaging problem assuming point scatterers in a known background medium. Our statistical measurement models are based on the physical models of the multistatic response matrix, the distorted wave Born approximation and Foldy-Lax multiple scattering models. We develop maximum likelihood (ML) estimators of the locations and reflection parameters of the scatterers. Using a simplified single-scatterer model, we also propose a likelihood time-reversal imaging technique which is suboptimal but computationally efficient and can be used to initialize the ML estimation. We generalize the fixed-frequency likelihood imaging to multiple frequencies, and demonstrate its effectiveness in resolving the grating lobes of a sparse array. This enables to achieve high resolution by deploying a large-aperture array consisting of a small number of antennas while avoiding spatial ambiguity. Numerical and experimental examples are used to illustrate the applicability of our results.
Publié le : 2005-05-14
Classification: 
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     author = {Shi, Gang and Nehorai, Arye},
     title = {Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Point Scatterers for Computational Time-reversal
 Imaging},
     journal = {Commun. Inf. Syst.},
     volume = {05},
     number = {2},
     year = {2005},
     pages = { 227-256},
     language = {en},
     url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1149775037}
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Shi, Gang; Nehorai, Arye. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Point Scatterers for Computational Time-reversal
 Imaging. Commun. Inf. Syst., Tome 05 (2005) no. 2, pp.  227-256. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1149775037/