“…In Section 2, the problem is formulated and, under the hypothesis of narrow-band, widesense stationary and incoherent sources, the coherence function of the NF is related to the source intensity distribution (van CittertZernike theorem), thus obtaining the relevant, linear unknown-to-data relationship to be inverted for the reconstruction of the unknown random sources. In Section 3, the problem discretization is introduced when the incoherent source intensity distribution is represented by means of Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions (PSWFs) [34,35], and the solution scheme employing the SVD approach is indicated. Section 4 is devoted to describe the singular value optimization procedure to define the number and positions of the field samples.…”