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sonar

[soh-nahr] / ˈsoʊ nɑr /




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So the department brought in a search company with the latest sonar technology as well as divers - and they found Schepers and her car at the bottom of the river in March 2025.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

The San Francisco Police Department has been using boat-mounted sonar to search for the vessel since Tuesday and located its remains Friday.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

The monitoring devices which were believed to have been dropped by the Bear-F plane float on the water and use sonar to detect submarines and other vessels.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Tournament sponsors say the technology is attracting a younger, tech-savvy demographic to the sport, while Blaukat says anglers staring at sonar screens instead of honing their fishing skills “disrespects the sport.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

Batsare obliged to make sounds almost ceaselessly, to sense, by sonar, all the objects in their surroundings.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Mayer and other scientists argued that emerging technologies, especially multibeam sonars that produce detailed 3D images, offered an unprecedented opportunity to document little known sea floors off the U.S.

From Science Magazine Jan. 8, 2024

“You use sonars to verify ranges and they might have been testing the sonar or working out the echo strength of the sonar,” the source told The Times.

From Washington Times Nov. 19, 2023

Using a variety of sonars and two remotely operated vehicles — Deep Discoverer and Serios — researchers aboard the ship are mapping and collecting samples from areas along the Aleutian Trench and Gulf of Alaska.

From Seattle Times Aug. 14, 2023

National Marine Fisheries Service that concluded the Navy had "killed at least six whales in an accident involving common ship-based sonars."

From Salon Jan. 19, 2023

Tom filtered out the difference in the two sounds with the correlation calculator unit of one of his quality analyzer sonars.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Brey, Charles




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