Book excerpt: Preface -- Reconstruction of sound pressure field by IFEM / R. Anderssohn [und weitere] -- Seabed parameter estimation by inversion of long range sound propagation fields / W. Chen, L. Ma and N.R. Chapman -- High resolution radon transform and wavefield separation / J. Chen [und weitere] -- Three-dimensional acoustic simulation on acoustic scattering by nonlinear internal wave in coastal ocean / L.Y.S. Chiu, C.-F. Chen and J.F. Lynch -- Estimation of shear wave velocity in seafloor sediment by seismo-acoustic interface waves: a case study for geotechnical application / H. Dong, J.M. Hovem and S.A. Frivik. The optimum source depth distribution for reverberation inversion in a shallow-water waveguide / T.F. Gao and E.C. Shang -- Semi-automatic adjoint PE modeling for geoacoustic inversion / J.-P. Hermand [und weitere] -- Modeling 3D wave propagation in the ocean coupled with elastic bottom and irregular interface / L.-W. Hsieh, D. Lee and C.-F. Chen -- Reflections from steel plates with doubly periodic anechoic coatings / S. Ivansson -- Seismic characterization and monitoring of thin-layer reservoir / L. Jin, X. Chen and J. Li -- The energy-conserving property of the standard PE / D. Lee and E.-C. Shang -- Estimation of anisotropic properties from a surface seismic survey and log data / R. Li and M. Urosevic -- Using Gaussian beam model in oceans with penetrating slope bottoms / Y.-T. Lin [und weitere] -- Application Niche genetic algorithms to AVOA inversion in orthorhombic media / M.-H. Lu and H.-Z. Yang -- Reconstruction of seismic impedance from marine seismic data / B.R. Mabuza [und weitere] -- Characterization of an underwater acoustic signal using the statistics of the wavelet subband coefficients / M.I. Taroudakis, G. Tzagkarakis and P. Tsakalides -- Some theoretical aspects for elastic wave modeling in a recently developed spectral element method / X.M. Wang, G. Seriani and W.J. Lin -- Inversion of bottom back-scattering matrix / J.R. Wu, T.F. Gao and E.C. Shang -- New methods of scattering coefficients computation for the prediction of room acoustic parameters / X. Zeng, C.L. Christensen and J.H. Rindel