An Efficient Technique for Solving Inhomogeneous Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems

Abstract

The electromagnetic inverse scattering approach seeks to obtain the electric characteristics of a scatterer using information about the source and the scattered data. The inverse scattering problem usually suffers from limited knowledge about the scatterer used, which makes its solution more challenging than the forward problem. This paper presents an inversion approach to estimating the unknown electric properties of a two- and three-dimensional inhomogeneous scatterer. The presented approach considers the inverse scattering problem as a global minimization problem with a meshless forward formulation for the computation of the scattered electromagnetic field. Various simulated annealing cooling schedules are applied and assessed to solve the problem, and the results of several case studies are presented for both two- and three-dimensional electromagnetic inverse scattering problems.