Seafloor Scattering Experiments

This chapter will review published data on high-frequency scattering by the seafloor, pointing out regularities (and lack of regularity as well) in the data without attempting physical explanations. Discussion of physical mechanisms will be reserved for Chs. 13 and 14, where data and scattering models are compared. Attention will be restricted to measurements of scattering strength (defined in Sect. 2.3.2). Reviews of seafloor sound scattering can be found in [Bunchuk and Zhitkovskii 1980, McCammon 1993, Chotiros 2002a].