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This chapter deals with models that predict the scattering cross section (Sect. 2.3.2) in terms of statistical information on seafloor roughness. Most research in this area has assumed that seafloor relief can be described by a continuous function of the two horizontal coordinates, that is, roughness is the type of microtopography discussed in Ch. 6. This work is the primary subject of this chapter, but recent work on scattering due to discrete roughness features, such as shell fragments lying on the sediment-water interface, will be treated briefly.
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Jackson, D.R., Richardson, M.D. (2007). Roughness Scattering Models. In: High-Frequency Seafloor Acoustics. Underwater Acoustics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36945-7_13
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