Methods of quantitative reconstruction of shapes and refractive indices from experimental data

Paper in proceeding, 2015

In this chapter we summarize results of [5, 6, 14] and present new results of reconstruction of refractive indices and shapes of objects placed in the air from blind backscattered experimental data using two-stage numerical procedure of [4]. Data are collected using a microwave scattering facility which was built at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. On the first stage the approximately globally convergent method of [4] is applied to get a good first approximation for the exact solution. Results of this stage are presented in [5, 14]. On the second stage the local adaptive finite element method of [1] is applied to refine the solution obtained on the first stage. In this chapter we briefly describe methods and present new results for both stages.