A not pointwise approach to the wind-field retrieval from scatterometer data

In this paper we propose a different approach to the wind field retrieval over the sea surface from the scatterometer data. This approach is based on the exploitation of different properties of the wind field which allow the coupling of the wind field reconstruction in nearest neighbor points of the scatterometer measure grid (not pointwise method). The results obtained by the reconstruction procedure on ERS-1 scatterometer data over the Mediterranean sea are shown.