News tagged with sonar systems
Toward cheap underwater sensor nets
May 27, 2009 |
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UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop ...
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Whale sonar: Two pings are better than one
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Many whale species have sonar systems that send out two pings at once, allowing them to detect underwater objects with greater accuracy than even the most sophisticated human technologies, according to a study ...
Study Shows Sonar Did Not Harm Fish
Jul 05, 2007 |
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A new University of Maryland study in the July issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America reports that high powered sonar, like that used by U.S. Navy ships, did not harm test fish, including their ...
Bat-bot boosts sonar research
Aug 22, 2005 |
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A robotic bat head that can emit and detect ultrasound in the band of frequencies used by the world's bats will give echolocation research a huge boost. The Bat-Bot, developed by IST project CIRCE, can also wriggle its ears, ...
Arctic expeditions find giant mud waves, glacier tracks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Scientists gathering evidence of ancient ice sheets uncovered a new mystery about what's happening on the Arctic sea floor today.
Rocket science leads to new whale discovery
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal - or if they hear it at all.
A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National ...
Remarkable journeys may save bat species
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Jul 12, 2007 |
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Researchers have new hope for the future of an endangered species of bat after two of the flying mammals traveled 110 miles to a Welsh cave to live.
NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 31, 2007 |
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[B]Carnegie Mellon researchers use sonar to map, demystify El Zacatón[/B] A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico’s mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, fin ...
Robot sub searches for signs of melting 60 km into an Antarctic ice shelf cavity
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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Autosub, a robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has successfully completed a high-risk campaign of six missions travelling under an Antarctic glacier.
First hyperlens for sound waves created
Oct 25, 2009 |
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Ultrasound and underwater sonar devices could "see" a big improvement thanks to development of the world's first acoustic hyperlens. Created by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
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