The acoustic holography is an experimental method for the estimation of acoustic field in the space from the measurement of the pressure on the surface; hologram surface. This method can be classified into four types of holography by the shape of hologram surface which regards to be infinite. In practical implementation, it is inevitable to have finite aperture size and sampling of measurement in space, therefore the associated error is unavoidable. For a given condition, the error is dependent on the parameters of holography, such as number of measurement points, size and shape of hologram surface, position and characteristics of the source, and so forth. In this thesis, four types of holography are studied by modal summation method and its relation to the Green's function is described. Numerical simulation is performed using a monopole source with varying parameters for each holographic method in order to find the efficient parameters of the region of an small error. In the experiments, the circular type plane holography and cylindrical holography were verified to be effective, when we want to know the axially symmetric field and the one induced by the structure of cylindrical shape. Finally it suggests the selection of efficient parameters and types of holography.
