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Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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Active sonar

Performance prediction

Passive sonar

Performance factors

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Civilian applications

Scientific applications

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General bibliography

  • ISSN ISSN (identifier)
  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)
  • Doi Doi (identifier)
  • OCLC OCLC (identifier)

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Sonar

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Edges253
Triples370
Avg. degree1.99
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Sonar

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related to General bibliography · 37
Sonar → Anti-submarine Warfare, Biological Sciences, Case Study, Dring, Hackmann, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Historical Studies, Initial Years, ISBN, ISSN, January, London, Los Altos, LV, March, Naval Warfare, Navy Antisubmarine Warfare, OCLC, Peninsula Publishing, Physical
related to US Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory · 21
Sonar → Also, As, At Nahant, Bell Labs, England, Great Britain, Horton, In, Irish Sea, London, Massachusetts, Nahant, On, The, This, To, US Naval Headquarters, US Navy, Warren Horton's, While
related to Performance prediction · 17
Sonar → AG, Any, At, Because, DT, Even, However, If, NL, PL, Since, SL, Suppose, The, Therefore, Unlike, W/m2
related to Further reading · 15
Sonar → An, ASDIC, Canada, Casa Loma, Deep, November, October, Popular Science, Radar, Retrieved, Sept, Stable Sonics, Time, Toronto, World War II
related to External links · 13
Sonar → American Scientists, Atmospheric AdministrationSonar Propagation, Coastal Management, Coastal Services Center, Federation, FFI, FFI Facts, Military Analysis Network, National Oceanic, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Remote Sensing, Single Beam Sonar, Sonars
related to Materials and designs in the US and Japan · 13
Sonar → ADP, Ammonium, High, In, Rochelle, Rochelle-salt, The, The ADP, There, This, US, Within, World War II
related to Torpedoes · 13
Sonar → An, AN/SLQ-25 Nixie, Bold, German Sieglinde, Mark, Modern, MOSS, Nixie, Surface Ship Torpedo Defence, This, Torpedo, UK Royal Navy S2170, US
has application · 12
Sonar → Active, Although, Having, However, In, Japanese, Modern, Soviet Union, The, Toshiba, With, World War II
related to Later developments in transducers · 12
Sonar → Galfenol, In, Magnetostrictive, Metglas, Nickel, Nonmetallic, Other, PZT, Terfenol-D, The, This, World War II
related to Anti-submarine warfare · 10
Sonar → An, Because, It, Now, SQS-56, Such, The, These, Until, VDS

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used sound active use sonars submarine passive water may also submarines acoustic underwater systems frequency target transducer range transducers detection

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Sonaris aSQS-56.Because of the problems of ship noise0.90text
Sonaris aType 2193 while the SQQ-32 mine-hunting sonar and Type 2093 systems are VDS designs.Submarine navigationSubmarines rely on sonar to a greater extent than surface ships as they c…0.90text
Sonaris aType 2193 while the SQQ-32 mine-hunting sonar and Type 2093 systems are VDS designs0.90text
Sonaris aecho-sounder with a directional capability that can show fish or other objects around the vessel.ROV and UUVSmall sonars have been fitted to remotely operated vehicles0.90text
Sonaris aecho-sounder with a directional capability that can show fish or other objects around the vessel0.90text
measuring sea ice thicknessinstance ofbut has some unique applications0.80text
roughnessinstance ofbut has some unique applications0.80text
concentrationinstance ofbut has some unique applications0.80text
or measuring air entrainment from bubble plumes during rough seasinstance ofbut has some unique applications0.80text
the Argo floatinstance ofand floats0.80text
whalesinstance ofA complication is that echoes are also obtained from other objects in the sea0.80text
wakesinstance ofA complication is that echoes are also obtained from other objects in the sea0.80text

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