Inverting Real Data: The Ipswich Experience

The Electromagnetics Technology Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts has been providing measured and theoretical data to the inverse scattering/imaging community since 1995, via a FTP server. The data is obtained in the course of our work in radar phenomenology and systems analysis, wherein we conduct both theoretical and measurement programs. Since many of our results are obtained from canonical shapes and are not of a sensitive nature we realized that we could do the inverse community a service by providing researchers with real data to exercise their algorithms. We inaugurated the Ipswich data server in late 1994.