Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

SCATTERING AND PROPAGATION OF WAVES IN A TENUOUS DISTRIBUTION OF SCATTERERS: SINGLE SCATTERING APPROXIMATION.

Scattering and Absorption of a Wave by a Single Particle.

Characteristics of Discrete Scatterers in the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Biological Materials.

Scattering of Waves from the Tenuous Distribution of Particles.

Scattering of Pulse Waves from a Random Distribution of Particles.

Line-of-Sight Propagation through Tenuous Distribution of Particles.

TRANSPORT THEORY OF WAVES IN RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED SCATTERERS.

Transport Theory of Wave Propagation in Random Particles.

Approximate Solutions for Tenuous Medium.

Diffusion Approximation.

Two and Four Flux Theory.

Plane-Parallel Problem.

Isotropic Scattering.

Approximation for Large Particles.

MULTIPLE SCATTERING THEORY.

Multiple Scattering Theory of Waves in Stationary and Moving Scatterers and Its Relationship with Transport Theory.

Multiple Scattering Theory of Wave Fluctuations and Pulse Propagation in Randomly Distributed Scatterers.

WAVES IN RANDOM CONTINUUM AND TURBULENCE.

Scattering of Waves from Random Continuum and Turbulent Media.

Line-of-Sight Propagation of a Plane Wave through a Random Medium-Weak Fluctuation Case.

Line-of-Sight Propagation of Spherical and Beam Waves through a Random Medium-Weak Fluctuation Case.

Temporal Correlation and Frequency Spectra of Wave Fluctuations in a Random Medium and the Effects of an Inhomogeneous Random Medium.

Strong Fluctuation Theory.

ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING AND REMOTE SENSING.

Rough Surface Scattering.

Remote Sensing and Inversion Techniques.

Appendix A: Spectral Representations of a Random Function.

Appendix B: Structure Functions.

Appendix C:Turbulence and Refractive Index Fluctuations.

Appendix D: Some Useful Mathematical Formulas.

References.

Index.

About the Author.