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Bottom backscatter is often the dominant component of reverberation for sonars operating in the band from 10 to 500 kHz in littoral waters. A grazing angle of 10° is at the intersection of the range of angles encountered by operational minehunting sonars and the angles reported in most experimental studies. Analysis of the measured values provides an indication of the processes involved. The effectiveness of models may be gauged by comparison with measured values.
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Chotiros, N.P. (2002). Variability of Bottom Backscattering Strength in the 10–500 kHz Band At Shallow Grazing Angles. In: Pace, N.G., Jensen, F.B. (eds) Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability of Acoustic Predictions and Sonar Performance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0626-2_26
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