Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics

Preface by editors / 1. What we are inverting for? / 2. Freeze bath inversion for estimation of geoacoustic parameters / 3. Tomographic inversion on multiple receivers/arrays from multiple sources for the estimation of shallow water bottom parameters. 4. Non-linear optimization techniques in geoacoustic tomography. 5. Estimating the impulse response of the ocean: correlation vs. deconvolution. / 6. Regularized inversion for towed array shape estimation. / 7. Mode coupling effects in acoustic thermometry of the Arctic Ocean. / 8. On the characterization of objects in shallow water using rigorous inversion methods. / 9. Inverse boundary value problem for ocean acoustics using point sources. / 10. Multidimensional inverse problem for the acoustic equation in the ray statement. / Appendix--Ocean Acoustic tomography: Integral data and ocean models.