Ten key papers in synthetic aperture sonar

There are now hundreds of patents and papers on synthetic aperture sonar; some of them of key importance whereas many others are of peripheral or minor interest. Here we take what we consider to be the top ten publications in synthetic aperture sonar and explain why we believe they are important and how they have made a significant contribution to the developing discipline or have made some leap of imagination in the area. This paper is more than a catalogue of the top ten citations since not all the real advances in the field have been published in academic peer‐review journals.