A Note on the Sonar Transform and Related Radon Transforms

Abstract

The sonar transform in geometric tomography maps functions on the Euclidean half-space to integrals of those functions over hemispheres centered on the boundary hyperplane. We obtain sharp $L^p$-$L^q$ estimates for this transform and new explicit inversion formulas under minimal assumptions for functions. The main results follow from intriguing connection between the sonar transform, the Radon transform over paraboloids, and the transversal Radon transform, which integrates functions over hyperplanes, meeting the last coordinate axis.