As the studies on shallow-water acoustics became an active field again, this dissertationfocuses on studying the separation and detection of raypaths in the context of shallowwaterocean acoustic tomography. As a first step of our work, we have given a briefreview on the existing array processing techniques in underwater acoustics so as to findthe difficulties still faced by these methods. Consequently, we made a conclusion thatit is still necessary to improve the separation resolution in order to provide more usefulinformation for the inverse step of ocean acoustic tomography. Thus, a survey on highresolutionmethod is provided to discover the technique which can be extended to separatethe raypaths in our application background. Finally, we ...