Acoustic Interferometry in Problems of the Passive Localization of Sound Sources, Underwater Communications, and the Monitoring of Oceanic Inhomogeneities

Physical and mathematical principles of an innovative holographic way of processing hydroacoustic information are presented. The results from testing the proposed technique are demonstrated using data from field and computational experiments on problems of localizing and resolving noise sources, underwater acoustic communications, and the diagnostics of hydrodynamic perturbations of the oceanic environment.