Two dimensional inverse scattering from buried magnetic anomalies

This paper deals with the problem of the electromagnetic linear inverse scattering from magnetic anomalies
buried in a lossy half space, for a scalar and two dimensional case. First, the formulation of the exact model of
the electromagnetic scattering is given. Then, the linear inverse problem is solved by resorting to the well assessed
Singular Value Decomposition tool. The reliability of the solution procedure is tested with synthetic data
achieved by a FDTD code.

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