The Third Annual Special Session On Image Reconstruction Using Real Data, Part 1

TLDR: The Third Annual Special Session on Image Reconstruction T u s i n g R:al Data was conducted at the AP-S/URSI Intemational Symposium, held July 13-18, 1997, in Montreal, Canada.

Abstract: he “Third Annual Special Session on Image Reconstruction T u s i n g R:al Data” was conducted at the AP-S/URSI Intemational Symposium, held July 13-18, 1997, in Montreal, Canada. The session was well-attended, featuring seven invited papers, as well as a walk-on participant. For those interested in detailed descriptions of our measurement facility and our FTP server, see refirences [l] and [2]. This session was the last one in which my respected colleague and friend, Professor Ralph Kleinman, participated. As you know, Ralph passed away in 1998, much too soon. I first met Ralph in 1975, when he was a visiting Professor at the Microwave Physics Laboratory of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories. We stayed in touch after he returned to Delaware, and through the years he became somewhat of a mentor-at-adistance. Ralph and my thesis advisor, Professor Mike Fiddy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, were both heavily involved in inverse scattering, and their combined influence was instrumental in my choice of a thesis topic. Ralph first suggested that I post scattering data on the Internet, and then convinced me that a contest with mystery targets would not be shunned by inverse scatterers. I benefited from his council and his sense of humor for 23 years, and I will miss him.