Spectral integral representations of monostatic backscattering from three dimensional distributions of sediment volume inhomogeneities
Abstract
A theory is developed for generating short time, monostatic reverberation realizations caused by three dimensionally distributed volume inhomogeneities in stratified media. A spectral integral approach to treating the propagation to and from the scatterers, combined with a two dimensional spectral representation of the azimuthally averaged scatterer realizations and a novel numerical implementation, combine to yield a efficient, high fidelity reverberation realization generator for predicting monostatic backscatter from realistic sediments.
Report Number
SM-376Date
2001/03Author(s)
LePage, Kevin D.
; Schmidt, Henrik