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It is assumed that a number of microwave links is deployed between a group of satellites with microwave transmitters onboard and another group with receivers. It is also assumed that the Normalized Differential Spectral Absorption (NDSA) approach is used to provide time series of Integrated Water Vapor (IWV) along each link. The set of links scans an annular region belonging to the orbital plane of the LEO satellites, so that the time series of the IWV measurements can be exploited to retrieve the WV concentration in such a region. This is a typical tomographic inversion problem. The geometry of the acquisition system and the path-integrated nature of measurements well fit the application of the Exterior Reconstruction Tomographic Algorithm (ERTA), which was proposed several decades ago in contexts different from remote sensing. In this paper, we investigate the potential of ERTA for the WV retrieval and compare its performance with that of a least square inversion approach already presented in the literature. The compared analysis has been carried out through simulations that have highlighted the peculiarities and retrieval capabilities of the two tomographic methods, as well as the impact of the richness of the satellite constellation on the overall performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14020414","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]],"date-time":"2022-01-17T20:49:21Z","timestamp":1642452561000},"page":"414","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Tomographic Inversion Methods for Retrieving the Tropospheric Water Vapor Content Based on the NDSA Measurement Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Agnese","family":"Mazzinghi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CNIT c\/o Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0041-0694","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabrizio","family":"Cuccoli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNIT c\/o Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7776-4015","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabrizio","family":"Argenti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy"}]},{"given":"Arjan","family":"Feta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4976-0073","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luca","family":"Facheris","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"871","DOI":"10.1109\/36.175321","article-title":"Remote sensing of water vapor in the near IR from EOS\/MODIS","volume":"30","author":"Kaufman","year":"1992","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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