Inverse elastic scattering from rigid scatterers with a single incoming wave : this paper is dedicated to the memory of Armin Lechleiter

The @first part of this paper is concerned with uniqueness to inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering from bounded rigid obstacles in two dimensions. It is proved that a connected polygonal obstacle can be uniquely identified by the far-field pattern corresponding to a single elastic plane wave. Our approach is based on a new reflection principle for the first boundary value problem of the Navier equation. In the second part, we propose a revisited factorization method to recover a rigid elastic body with a single far-field pattern