On the Inversion of Wind Scatterometer Incomplete Data Sets

Maurizio MIGLIACCIO
Maurizio SARTI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.9    pp.3742-3749
Publication Date: 2005/09/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.9.3742
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Sensing
Keyword: 
scatterometer,  sea wind,  wind field reconstruction,  

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Summary: 
ERS-1/2 wind scatterometers (WSC) data sets may contain cells in which two, instead of three, measurements are available. These data sets are called incomplete. Operational inversion procedures discard such data sets and therefore no wind field is estimated. This is very limiting in semi-closed seas such as the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper we propose a new inversion procedure capable to retrieving near surface wind fields from incomplete data sets. This procedure is an enhancement of an algorithm already proposed and tested by the authors. A set of comprehensive experiments are presented and discussed. It is shown that the inversion procedure gets to remarkable results even in presence of a large number of doublets.