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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Radioglaciology (redirect from Radio-echo sounding)
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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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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Sonar (redirect from Sound navigation and ranging)
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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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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Ultrasonic transducer (section Use in depth sounding)
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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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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Multibeam echosounder (redirect from Multi-beam echo sounder)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Special Publication No. 4: Echo Sounding (Report). International Hydrographic Bureau. 1925. Douglas, H.P. (1929). "Echo Sounding". The Geographical Journal...
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(depth sounding radar, gravity), understanding of physical processes controlling glacier flow and ice melt in the ocean, field methods (multibeam echo sounding...
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Space Echo is a line of tape delay units introduced by Roland Corporation in 1974. Whereas prior tape delay effects used tape reels, the Space Echo uses...
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Bathymetric measurements are conducted with various methods, from depth sounding, sonar and lidar techniques, to buoys and satellite altimetry. Various...
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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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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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to conduct seabed surveys (bathymetry) with different high-precision echo-sounding systems and seismic surveys. These systems can be disturbed by air bubbles...
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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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Echo suppression and echo cancellation are methods used in telephony to improve voice quality by preventing echo from being created or removing it after...
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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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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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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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SOFAR channel (redirect from Deep sound channel)
Cite journal requires |journal= (help) Kaharl, Victoria (March 1999). "Sounding Out the Ocean's Secrets" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences...
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List of cycles (section Sound waves)
Compressibility – Delay-line memory – Diffraction – Doppler effect – Echo sounding – Electronic filter – FTIR – Krakatoa – Loudspeaker – Mach number –...
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Fisheries acoustics (section Echo integration)
of the Canning Industry), July 1934, pp. 222-223. Sund, O. (1935). "Echo sounding in fishery research". Nature. 135 (3423): 953. doi:10.1038/135953a0...
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