| The characterization of reverberation, from the surface, the bottom, and/or the volume, is important in advancing the understanding of the mechanisms involved in underwater sound scattering. Numerous experiments and much theoretical work have been done in the area of monostatic reverberation, but the area of bistatic reverberation has been much less researched. This certainly is a result of the much more complex geometries involved in bistatic reverberation.;This dissertation studied the statistics of bistatic surface reverberation data from the FLIP experiment conducted in January of 1992. The data were verified as homogeneous and normally distributed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test with a confidence interval, ;The bistatic surface scattering strengths were calculated from the data and compared with the predictions of a theory developed by S. T. McDaniel for the prediction of bistatic surface scattering strengths. The comparison showed good agreement with a rms deviation of about 3 dB. |
