A review of the application of aperture synthesis to acoustics is pres
ented. Attention is paid to references that elaborated the method of a
coustical aperture synthesis in the coherent field, and investigated a
coustical properties of the deep ocean bottom and of the shallow sea b
ottom. A review of the application of aperture synthesis to the cohere
nt field method for the explanation of the binaural hearing mechanism
is also given.