Sentences with phrase «how sonars»

While submariners and submarine chasers care a lot about how sonars interact with thermoclines, and use thermobarygraphs as though their lives depend upon it, which they well may do, ships being hunted by submarines tend to be distracted from oceanographic logging accuracy while dodging torpedoes.

Historical records of strandings and naval exercises have shored up the link, but exactly how the sonar would prompt whales to beach remains unclear (ScienceNOW, 10 February).

He also believes that it underscores calls from marine biologists to explore how sonar produced by military and commercial ships could garble low - frequency signals sent by sea mammals.

Looking at the diagrams with a hidden message in the article on understanding risk (25 June, p 31) reminded me of how sonar operators used sonar printouts to detect the presence of submarines.

That's similar to how SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging) works.

Not exact matches

I was very happy but did not know how to show my feelings, I was still thinking, is it real, am I dreaming, but no I was not, I was actually pregnant with twins, and I tried going for as many sonars as I could so I can see them growing, and just make sure both of them are healthy.

The work provides some of the first clues into how military sonar might cause whales to strand themselves and could eventually lead to regulations to protect the animals.

«We built a sonar that did this and took it out to sea and it worked beautifully,» Leighton says, though he adds that he isn't sure this is how dolphins detect their prey.

The team, from the UW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, showed how it is possible to collect such detailed data on personal activity using CovertBand, software code they created to turn smart devices into active sonar systems.

While the movie may be still be fiction, researchers at Caltech are making strides in this direction: they have, for the first time, created bacterial cells with the ability to reflect sound waves, reminiscent of how submarines reflect sonar to reveal their locations.

Until this study, almost no information was available about whether and how blue whales respond to sonar.

HOW IT WORKS: Inaudible sonar sound waves from the phone's speaker bounce off a patient's body and back to the phone.

To get beyond the prototype phase with their smart wheelchair, Spletzer and his team will have to figure out how to get it to move autonomously without having to rely on the expensive LiDAR system that Little Ben used but rather on a combination of lower cost LiDAR and sonar sensors.

That's because there are insufficient data to determine how the ill effects of noise created by ships, sonar signals, and other activities interact with other threats, including pollution, climate change, and the loss of prey due to fishing.

On one hand, the ability to track squid with sonar may reveal new details about how ocean ecosystems work.

This creates a mental image in the brain (similar to how a dolphin uses sonar to avoid obstacles).

The bumpers are also embedded with sonar detectors, and a graphic of the car shows how close objects are to the front and back.

Parking sonar uses ultrasonic (usually) or electromagnetic sensors in the back and sometimes front of the car to judge how close you are to objects nearby.

Dolphin uses the standard Google speech - to - text interface for actually interpreting your voice, so the special thing about Sonar is how it reacts to your commands.

Here's how I look at it: We raised three children who have moved on to live their own independent lives, and that's what we're doing with Sonar.

- Batman, Wyldstyle, Gandalf, and the Batmobile all come in the Starter Pack for $ 99.99 - complete the entire critical path with just this content - extra characters, vehicles, or weapons are sold separately - you may see ghosts flying around a level and need the Ghostbusters to take them out - use Scooby - Doo to dig and open up a new area - gameplay has you collecting studs, building and rebuilding within the world, and switching between characters - use Batman's grapple hook to tear down big obstacles - you can also drive the Batmobile to run over poppies (flowers that put characters to sleep if they're near them)- fight the Wicked Witch of the West - use the Lego Gateway outside of the game to avoid obstacles - when the Wicked Witch cast a magic spell, it can lock you into a position - when this happens, the Lego Gateway will flash red, save for one white safe area - move the actual figurine to the white area to be safe - every vehicle has three different forms - you must build and rebuild them throughout the adventure to get by - on mission makes you repower a gateway, but the generator is encased in blue Lego brick - build the Batblaster to use the brick - blaster and electricity shield to get by - in - game instructions tell you how to take apart the Batmobile and physically morph it into the Batblaste - use the sonar brick - blaster to destroy blue bricks

Spindel's research investigates how sound is transmitted in the ocean in order to improve the performance of systems used for sonar, underwater communication, and navigation.

How smart is it to publish that we can't use medium - range sonar within 12 miles of our coast?

Looking at how bats use echolocation and decoding how it's done is bringing scientists closer to better ways of using sonar for everything from maneuvering robotic vehicles to finding flaws in building structures.

I should also mention how I know this to be true... over the last few days I spent considerable time fishing and you can clearly see the bottom when the depth (according to the sonar) is 4 - 5m.

More on Whale Communication Screaming to be Heard Over Ship Noise is Taking It Out of Killer Whales Interactive Website Shows How «Acoustic Smog» Is Killing Whales Ocean Film Fest 2010: It's Not If, But How Military Sonar Kills Whales (Video)

Using these thousands of sonar images, scientists got a detailed view of the oil jet's cross section, and by multiplying these average oil areas by average velocities measured, they could estimate how much oil and gas were released.

But it wasn't clear how much HTC's sonar technology was to thank.