ADGEO Advances in Geosciences ADGEO Adv. Geosci. 1680-7359 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/adgeo-19-83-2008 Sea surface topography reconstruction from X-band radar images Serafino F. 1 Lugni C. 2 Soldovieri F. 1 Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, CNR, National Research Council, Via Diocleziano 328, Napoli, 80124 Italy INSEAN, the Italian Ship Model Basin, Department of Seakeeping and Maneuverability, Via di Vallerano, 139, Roma, 00128 Italy 14 11 2008 19 83 86 Copyright: © 2008 F. Serafino et al. 2008 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/19/83/2008/adgeo-19-83-2008.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/19/83/2008/adgeo-19-83-2008.pdf

The paper deals with the feasibility study of the sea state monitoring starting from X-band radar images. The exploitation of radar images allows to achieve a global vision of the sea state compared to the local vision given by the usual sensors as the buoys. The processing approach is based on the formulation of problem as an inverse one where starting from the electromagnetic field backscattered by the sea surface, the information about the sea state are retrieved. The reliability of the inversion procedure is shown by processing synthetic and experimental data where particular attention is focussed to the determination of the sea current and speed of the vessel.

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