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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Acoustic location (redirect from Sound location)
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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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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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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Ping (networking utility) (redirect from ICMP Echo Reply)
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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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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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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Amazon Echo, often shortened to Echo, is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal...
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wrong! Listen, listen, echoes sound afar! Listen, listen, echoes sound afar! Funiculì, funiculà, funiculì, funiculà! Echoes sound afar, funiculì, funiculà...
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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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Special Publication No. 4: Echo Sounding (Report). International Hydrographic Bureau. 1925. Douglas, H.P. (1929). "Echo Sounding". The Geographical Journal...
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