January 1989 VOLUME 14 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Sound Reverberation and Electromagnetic Clutter

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL AND OVERVIEW
Timothy  K. Stanton Guest editorial and overview 1

INVITED AND CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Ivan Tolstoy Diffraction by a hard truncated wedge and a strip 4
David Middleton Acoustic scattering from composite wind-wave surfaces in "Bubble-Free" régimes 17
R. S. Raghavan Adaptive processing of microwave sea echo for the suppression of strong reflections from scatterers 76
Marc Gensane A statistical study of acoustic signals backscattered from the sea bottom 84
Terry L. Henderson and Stephen G. Lacker Seafloor profiling by a wideband sonar: Simulation, frequency-response optimization, and results of a brief sea test 94

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
John L. Spiesberger, Paul J. Bushong, Kurt Metzger Jr., and Theodore G. Birdsall Ocean acoustic tomography: Estimating the acoustic travel time with phase 108