The paper deals with the feasibility study of the sea state monitoringstarting from X-band radar images. The exploitation of radar images allowsto achieve a global vision of the sea state compared to the local visiongiven by the usual sensors as the buoys. The processing approach is based onthe formulation of problem as an inverse one where starting from theelectromagnetic field backscattered by the sea surface, the informationabout the sea state are retrieved. The reliability of the inversionprocedure is shown by processing synthetic and experimental data whereparticular attention is focussed to the determination of the sea current andspeed of the vessel.
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