Abstract:A data driven echo modeling approach for the near-field engagement isproposed based on a large number of measured or simulated echo data, The echo envelope otnear-field engagement can be characterized by peak features, whose is represent by a pointscattering model with its peak amplitude, position and order parameters. The statisticaearning method based on support vector machine (SVM) is applied to train peak featuresfrom a large amount of echo envelopes, and then the support vector regression (SVR)models for peak amplitude, position and order are obtained, represtively. The experiment often thousand simuluated echoes from point target near-field engagement indicates that theSVR with the Gaussian kernel can model peak features of target echoes accurately.