High-Frequency Material-Dependent Scattering Processes for Tilted Truncated Cylindrical and Disk-Shaped Targets

When evaluating potential applications of high-frequency scattering by targets, it is important to be able to anticipate which features of the scattering may be attributed to material properties of the target and which features would also be present for rigid targets. These concerns may be especially important for the classification of completely exposed and partially buried targets. The overview here emphasizes previously published relevant experimental and theoretical results for backscattering by bluntly-truncated targets in water.