Shallow‐water in‐plane bistatic scattering experiment

Every reverberation experiment done in shallow water is by its nature, bistatic at long ranges. That is to say, in addition to simple monostatic returns, the received signal is composed of energy arriving along bottom bounce paths for which incident and scattered angles are different. Therefore, it is possible to measure in‐plane bistatic scattering strength using a monostatic geometry [Hines, Crowe, and Ellis, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (in review)]. Noting this, a simple array consisting of a pair of free‐flooding‐ring projectors and two hydrophones was used to measure monostatic and bistatic scatter in 100 m of water on the Scotian Shelf. A series of linear FM (LFM) pulses was transmitted in four frequency bands over the range 900 to 2100 Hz. The reverberation data between the first bottom return and the first surface return provided estimates of monostatic backscatter strength for grazing angles down to 10°. Data arriving after the first‐bottom–first‐surface interaction provided estimates of in‐plane bistati...