Heading aft towards the stern, we found the mizzenmast collapsed, which was why it had not shown up on the sonar. |
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Lidar is a remote sensing technique that uses laser light in much the same way that sonar uses sound or radar uses radio waves. |
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Whilst sound carries better in water than in air, that hasn't stopped mammals from using sonar in the air too. |
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The ship lost its sonar dome and the starboard stabiliser in the grounding. |
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A closed-circuit television and close-range sonar provides for viewing objects already detected by the shipboard sonar. |
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Before the wells were dug, surveys and seismic testing had to be undertaken using sonar equipment, to find the best site for digging. |
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At the time 14 beaked whales became beached on the same day that U.S. Navy destroyers where engaged in a sonar exercise. |
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The sonar that will be used has a frequency of 170 kilohertz and is considered safe for the animals. |
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Using echolocation, its sophisticated sonar system, each bat may catch and eat several stomachfuls of insects in a single night. |
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New moves will be made this weekend by divers armed with sonar scarers used on fish farms to return him to the wild. |
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But Balcomb said he is fighting, nonetheless, to prove that sonar is dangerous to orcas too. |
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The search began with methodical, round-the-clock sonar scans of the predetermined search zone. |
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The system also has three flank arrays on both the port and starboard sides and an intercept sonar. |
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The bow planes are positioned close to the midship to improve the performance of the sonar. |
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This area was last surveyed in 1949, before most of the modern sonar technology was available. |
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Sonar technology, bioacoustics science to be used to detect manatees, alert boaters. |
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The helicopter settled into a hover seconds later and dropped its dipping sonar into the water. |
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Now, video footage and sonar data proves conclusively that the wreck is not Centaur. |
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We were chasing an underwater target and having a good time, using sonobuoys before moving in for the kill with the dipping sonar. |
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The ship carries two small hydrographic survey launches, equipped with high-frequency sonar to operate in depths of 10 to 260 feet. |
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Sonar surveying is the counterpart of photogrammetric mapping of the land surface. |
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With radar, sonar, fish-finders and echograms she could pinpoint and capture whole schools of fish with chilling effectiveness. |
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Like bats, dolphins use echolocation, an internal sonar system, to help them navigate, avoid predators and find food. |
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Most bats emit sonar at ultrasonic frequencies around 20-60 kilohertz, and this is the range at which hearing moths are most sensitive! |
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The incident happened in waters where the navy was conducting a massive sonar exercise. |
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For instance, he said, its active and passive sonar systems are aging, thus shortening the range of its monitoring. |
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The SUNS system can determine positions underwater by the use of small buoys which broadcast the position and time references by sonar signals. |
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The knowledge the researchers gain about bat sonar is tested out on dolphins and applied to human sonar systems. |
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While the animals lack sonar, they do posses superb directional underwater hearing and the ability to see in near-darkness. |
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Sonar and sounding rods are relatively inexpensive and simple devices, but each has its own limitations. |
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The parliament called upon member states to immediately restrict the use of high intensity active naval sonar in waters under their jurisdiction. |
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The MHSS emulates tactical and sonar displays and provides a high fidelity simulation of the underwater acoustic environment and sonar image formation process. |
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And evidence that sonar kills whales goes way beyond coincidence. |
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Out in the Atlantic, vast Japanese factory ships work nonstop, using modern sonar detection to spot the tuna shoals they sweep the ocean clean of fish. |
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Experimental Low Frequency Active Sonar, at peak level, produces a noise equivalent to standing five feet from the space shuttle on take-off. |
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Some nets are even outfitted with sonar to allow fishermen to steer their nets around obstacles and keep fishing lines at the same depth as their target. |
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On a project in Norway involving sonar work and diving in extreme conditions, Spencer drove for some 50 hours from Newcastle to Scandinavia with a vanload of equipment. |
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Humpback recovery looks strong, but threats such as boat traffic, entanglement in fishing gear, sonar noise, and disruption of habitat and food supply remain. |
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Performance options include GPS, echosounder, Broadband Radar, StructureScan Sonar Imaging, SonicHub marine audio and SIRIUS weather. |
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High-resolution bathymetric data and side-scan sonar surveys of pockmarks, depressions up to 300 m long, were obtained by using an autonomous underwater vehicle. |
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On this occasion, despite her capable sonar system and the on-board diving team which can work to depths of up to 80 metres, the ship was unable to locate the mine. |
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The towed sonar and towed decoys are launched from the stern of the ship. |
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The Navy concluded that the presence of the whales in an ocean channel with calm water, which amplifies sound, caused the sonar to damage their ears. |
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Royal Navy minesweepers have been competing for the award of excellence since the 1970s when it was inaugurated by the original sponsors, Thomson Marconi Sonar Ltd. |
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She noted that government scientists investigating a number of cetacean beachings had attributed them to naval exercises involving mid-frequency sonar. |
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You can almost hear the popping of rivets and the pinging of the sonar. |
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Police, who are using sonar equipment and specialist diving teams, and coastguards are continuing to search the river and nearby areas of coastline. |
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And who can forget Jatayu in his film Sonar Kella brandishing a kukri? |
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The new study showed for the first time that bats catch insects by sonar as it is far more efficient than using vision, even during twilight. |
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The truth is that LFA Sonar may have much worse consequences for whales and other marine life than the sonar used in the Bahamas incident. |
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The sounds made by mid-frequency sonar are within the hearing range of humans as well as whales. |
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Active sonar uses the reflection of sound emitted from the search equipment to detect submarines. |
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The Navy already uses precision-machined electromechanical gravity gradiometers to help submarines navigate without noisy sonar. |
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Another concept that affects safe navigation is the sparsity of detailed depth data from high resolution sonar systems. |
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It was believed by the scientific community that sonar was leading to mass stranding of Hooded Seals. |
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Environmentalists speculate that advanced naval sonar endangers some whales. |
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Some scientists suggest that sonar may trigger whale beachings, and they point to signs that such whales have experienced decompression sickness. |
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Meteor was equipped with early sonar equipment with which it produced the first detailed survey of the south Atlantic Ocean floor. |
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Three vessels will be towing the underwater vehicles equipped with sonar and multi-beam echo sounders to search the plane. |
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On board instrumentation included a high-precision cesium magnometer, a fathometer, side-scan sonar and a StrataBox. |
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The coauthor of the interim report stated that animals killed by active sonar of some Navy ships were injured. |
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The military and resource extraction industries operate strong sonar and blasting operations. |
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Naval exercises with sonar regularly results in fallen cetaceans that wash up with fatal decompression. |
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The bats' sonar spies the amphibians' ballooning vocal sac, turning a sexual display into an invitation for lunch. |
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We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken. |
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The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look. |
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Healthy bats fly by echolocation, a sort of natural sonar, which helps them avoid contact with objects, including humans. |
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The submarines carry the Thales Underwater Systems Type 2054 composite sonar. |
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The military and geologists employ strong sonar and produce an increases in noise in the oceans. |
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A team of international researchers has documented evidence for the first time that sonar altered the behavior and movement of beaked whales. |
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Scout debuted its 350 LXF at the Miami International Boat Show with a Garmin GPSMAP 8000 Helm Series MFD, sonar and radar. |
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Then they close in using sophisticated sonar to track the shape of the shoal. |
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Tergiversator transmitted into the water carrier and escort propulsion noises and active sonar transmissions. |
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Sonar was originally developed during World War II to locate enemy submarines, but was later applied to locating schools of fish. |
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This turned out to be due to millions of marine organisms, most particularly small mesopelagic fish, with swimbladders that reflected the sonar. |
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For months before his dive, Goddio scoured Abu Kir Bay using thousands of sonar readings to map the size, shape, and elevation of the seafloor. |
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Sonar reflects off the millions of lanternfish swim bladders, giving the appearance of a false bottom. |
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Additionally, civilian vessels produce sonar waves in order to measure the depth of the body of water in which they are. |
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Dolphins search for prey primarily using echolocation, which is similar to sonar. |
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The schnorchel also had the effect of making the boat essentially noisy and deaf in sonar terms. |
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Hull mounted sonar is employed in addition to the towed array, as the towed array can't work in shallow depth and during maneuvering. |
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Since 2000, whale strandings frequently occurred following military sonar testing. |
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Fugro will use two vessels equipped with side scan sonar, multibeam echo sounders and video cameras to scour the seafloor, which is close to 5,000 m deep in places. |
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In addition, sonar technology gave an edge to detecting and catching fish. |
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In the July 2 NATURE, Thorpe and Hallreport on a new means of monitoring this mixing process by using sonar and thermistors to track the movement of clouds of bubbles. |
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The existence of such a ridge was confirmed by sonar in 1925 and was found to extend around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean by the German Meteor expedition. |
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After WWII, with the development of the homing torpedo, better sonar systems, and nuclear propulsion, submarines also became able to hunt each other effectively. |
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Underwater noise is generated from shipping, the oil and gas industry, research, and military use of sonar and oceanographic acoustic experimentation. |
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By following horseshoe bats in Tunisia and Bulgaria, Dr Teeling and her team found their sonar calls were closely connected to their chances of getting lucky. |
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Accurate 3D position of the pipeline crossing location using the magnetometer, echo sounders, subbottom profiler, sidescan sonar and DGPS positioning. |
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Rear Admiral Kenneth M Perry, Vice Commander, Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, said a new hi-tech Kingfish sonar device was used in the drill. |
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Beaked whales have stranded on beaches during sonar training exercises, prompting concern that sonar disrupted their behavior and precipitated the strandings. |
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Bathymetric, side scan sonar, reflection and refraction surveys, and sub-bottom profiling will also be conducted to assist in developing an integrated site model. |
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Birmingham's Supersonic festival is set to double the number of international visitors this year by taking inspiration from Barcelona's Sonar Festival. |
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Passive sonar is a set of sensitive hydrophones set into the hull or trailed in a towed array, normally trailing several hundred feet behind the sub. |
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