Approximate image reconstruction in landscape reflection imaging (Q1665147)

Summary: Simple reflection imaging of landscape (scenery or extended objects) poses the inverse problem of reconstructing the landscape reflectivity function from its integrals on some particular family of spheres. Such data acquisition is encoded in the framework of a Radon transform on this family of spheres. In spite of the existence of an exact inversion formula, the numerical landscape reflectivity function reconstitution is best obtained with an approximate but judiciously chosen reconstruction kernel. We describe the working of this reflection imaging modality and its theoretical handling, introduce an efficient and stable image reconstruction algorithm, and present simulation results to prove the validity of this choice as well as to demonstrate the feasibility of this imaging process.