title: A robust noniterative method for obtaining scattering strengths of multiply scattering point targets.
abstract: A noniterative method based on the least squares technique is presented in this letter to obtain the scattering strengths of multiply scattering point targets. Benefiting from the least squares' optimization property, this new method achieves a good estimation of the scattering strengths. Compared with the noniterative method proposed in a recent paper [E. A. Marengo and F. K. Gruber "Noniterative analytical formula for inverse scattering of multiply scattering point targets," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3782-3788 (2006)], the new method produces more accurate results in the presence of noise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576. elechenx@nus.edu.sg
authors.forename: Xudong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016018:Least-Squares Analysis; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009146:Music; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010825:Physics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013017:Sound Localization