  This article focuses on the analysis of three direct sampling indicators
which can be used for recovering scatterers from the far-field pattern of
time-harmonic acoustic measurements. These methods fall under the category of
sampling methods where an indicator function is constructed using the far-field
operator. Motivated by some recent work, we study the standard indicator using
the far-field operator and two indicators derived from the factorization
method. We show the equivalence of two indicators previously studied as well as
propose a new indicator based on the Tikhonov regularization applied to the
far-field equation for the factorization method. Finally, we give some
numerical examples to show how the reconstructions compare to other direct
sampling methods.
