Neural Posterior Estimation of Terrain Parameters from Radar Sounder Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08179v1
• Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 08:41:02 GMT
• Title: Neural Posterior Estimation of Terrain Parameters from Radar Sounder Data
• Abstract summary: We propose a simulation-based inference approach to terrain parameter inversion from radar sounder data.<n>Synthetic observations from a GPU-based simulator are used to train a neural network-based density estimator for neural posterior estimation.<n>We demonstrate that our NPE model is well calibrated on simulated data and transferable to real Mars radar profiles.
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• Abstract: Radar sounders are electromagnetic instruments that can probe deep into the subsurface of Earth and other planetary bodies by processing the echo of transmitted radar waves. Conventional approaches for analyzing such data rely on approximate assumptions and often produce point estimates that ignore parameter correlations as well as galactic and measurement noise. We propose a simulation-based inference approach to terrain parameter inversion from radar sounder data, where synthetic observations from a GPU-based simulator are used to train a neural network-based density estimator for neural posterior estimation (NPE). By explicitly conditioning on reference surface assumptions, the proposed framework allows systematic evaluation of posterior robustness to reference surface variability. We demonstrate that our NPE model is well calibrated on simulated data and transferable to real Mars radar profiles, where we analyze terrain parameters using literature-informed reference values.

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