Monostatic imaging of an extended target with MCMC sampling

Abstract: We consider the imaging of a planar extended target from far-field data under a monostatic measurement configuration, in which the data is measured by a single moving transducer, as frequently encountered in practical application. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian approach to recover the shape of the extended target with MCMC sampling, where a new shape basis selection is proposed based on the shape derivative analysis for the measurement data. In order to optimize the center and radius of the initial disk, we use the monostatic sampling method for the center and the explicit scattered field expression for disks for the radius. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the proposed method.