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    Echo sounding or depth sounding is the use of sonar for ranging, normally to determine the depth of water (bathymetry). It involves transmitting acoustic...
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    processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional...
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    Depth sounding, often simply called sounding, is measuring the depth of a body of water. Data taken from soundings are used in bathymetry to make maps...
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    Newfoundland. In that test, Fessenden demonstrated depth sounding, underwater communications (Morse code) and echo ranging (detecting an iceberg at a 2-mile (3.2 km)...
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  • Echolocation (redirect from Echo-location)
    of sound on water or underwater, to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines. Echo sounding, listening to the echo of sound pulses...
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    the sound waves to reflect off the seabed and return to the receiver is used to calculate the water depth. Unlike other sonars and echo sounders, MBES...
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    hydrography, the speed of sound must also be measured typically by deploying a sound velocity probe into the water. Echo sounding is effectively a special...
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    conducted in June 2020. These depth estimates are derived from acoustic echo sounding profiles referenced to in-situ direct pressure measurements and corrected...
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  • also commonly referred to as "Ice Penetrating Radar (IPR)" or "Radio Echo Sounding (RES)". Glaciers are particularly well suited to investigation by radar...
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    In Greek mythology, Echo (/ˈɛkoʊ/; Greek: Ἠχώ, Ēkhō, "echo", from ἦχος (ēchos), "sound") was an Oread who resided on Mount Cithaeron. Zeus loved consorting...
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    acceptance authority. Traditionally conducted by ships with a sounding line or echo sounding, surveys are increasingly conducted with the aid of aircraft...
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    Echo Sounding Of Ice". Dowdeswell, J A; Evans, S (1 October 2004). "Investigations of the form and flow of ice sheets and glaciers using radio-echo sounding"...
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    II surveyed the trench using echo sounding, a much more precise and vastly easier way to measure depth than the sounding equipment and drag lines used...
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  • ships or obstacles by means of reflected sound waves) on 22 July 1913. In 1920 he founded the Behm Echo Sounding Company in Kiel in order to commercialise...
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    metaphor based on an acoustic echo chamber, in which sounds reverberate in a hollow enclosure. Another emerging term for this echoing and homogenizing effect...
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    Special Publication No. 4: Echo Sounding (Report). International Hydrographic Bureau. 1925. Douglas, H.P. (1929). "Echo Sounding". The Geographical Journal...
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  • The Sound of Echo is an EP that was released by the band Echo & the Bunnymen in February 1984. The EP is also known as the Never Stop EP and the Echo and...
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    animals emitting sound and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate Echo sounding, listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure...
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    be 3,962 metres (12,999 ft), a value later proven quite accurate by echo-sounding measurement techniques. Later on, due to increasing demand for the installment...
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    An echo chamber is a hollow enclosure used to produce reverberation, usually for recording purposes. A traditional echo chamber is covered in highly acoustically...
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    computer that are echoed back to the source. The name comes from active sonar terminology that sends a pulse of sound and listens for the echo to detect objects...
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    in the practice of depth sounding. The chains provided a platform for a 'leadsman', the sailor assigned to swing the sounding line, or 'lead' into the...
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  • Look up Echo, echo, or reecho in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An echo is a reflection of sound. Echo may also refer to: Echo (DC Comics), various different...
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  • articulated by guitar and percussion figures that burble along in a fatback echo, sounding like a sink backing up." An edited version of the concert piece from...
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    continue to test her echo sounder. Guide made history during the voyage, becoming the first Coast and Geodetic Survey ship to use echo sounding to measure and...
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  • Compressibility – Delay-line memory – Diffraction – Doppler effect – Echo sounding – Electronic filter – FTIR – Krakatoa – Loudspeaker – Mach number –...
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  • Look up echoes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Echoes may refer to: Echoes (acoustic phenomenon), a reflection of sound Echoes (2014 film), an American...
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  • by Amazon in 2013. It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon...
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    depth, from which the instrument gets its name. The fathometer is an echo sounding system for measurement of water depth. A fathometer will display water...
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  • her navigation equipment included wireless direction finding, and an echo sounding device. Acavus was registered at London. Her UK official number was...
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