These provide readings on location, charting, weather, sonar and radar via a proprietary Ethernet-based network.
Secretary Chu wrapped up the briefing with an overview of the ongoing work by the federal science team to collect and analyze acoustic, sonar and seismic data.
Down the road from UCSD, 30-foot screens at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography project geomorphic data obtained from radar, sonar and satellites, combined into a single 3-D image.
But the man he first gave it to, Henri-Germain Delauze, who owns a maritime engineering firm, has scoured three-quarters of Mr Bianco's course with sonar and mini-submarines without yet turning up a thing.
In a statement to the BBC, Exxon Mobil said that before drilling offshore "it is standard industry practice to conduct extensive studies at and below the seabed" to check for hazards, using tools including remote sonar and a magnetometer.
Such damage has long been suspected, since whales employ their own form of sonar for navigating and hunting, and also use sonar-like low frequency sound for communicating with each other (so-called whale song).
Australian researchers used sonar sensors and satellite transmitters to monitor 20 reptiles' movements.
Like its cousins radar and sonar, lidar (light detection and ranging), works by broadcasting electromagnetic waves towards a target and then building up a picture from the reflection.
The vehicles will use digital cameras, radar and sonar, married with sophisticated home-grown software, to pick and ping their way through the desert.
It has a crew of 20 plus 24 scientists, and features a special hull that diverts bubbles that interfere with sonar operations, and a high-efficiency diesel-electric propulsion system.
Allan Smith finished eighth in the 2.4mR individual competition and the Sonar trio of John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Stephen Thomas had to settle for sixth.
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It should work straight out of the box with Pro Tools, Sonar, Cubase and Reason.
Other similar mobile "social discovery" apps include Highlight, Banjo and Sonar.
Linked to GPS devices and sonar positioning beacons on the seafloor, the thrusters can keep the ship in a steady position even in 95mph winds.
As they wove around the maze, the Lingobots created spatial maps of their surroundings, with the help of on-board cameras, laser range finders and sonar equipment that helped them avoid walls.
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The move gives the French group control of a raft of businesses from radar and sonar, to internet services, as well as Racal's 22% stake in the UK's National Lottery operator Camelot.
And another sonar project is holding four public meetings that began Tuesday in Kauai, Hawaii.
It moves the steering wheel, using sonar to gauge distances, and offers the driver front and back video views.
Dr Paxton has eschewed sonar detectors, underwater cameras and robot submarines in favour of an entirely different method of detection: statistics.
The NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer mapped the locations between Nov. 2 and Nov. 20 using multibeam sonar, which produces detailed images of the seafloor by calculating the amount of time and distance it takes for sound waves to travel from the ship to the seafloor and back.
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The Neil Armstrong, first of the Armstrong-class Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) ships, will be equipped with sonar to map the ocean floor and laboratories for experiments.
Promethium is necessary for guided weapons and Dysprosium is employed in sonar systems.
But the Sonar crew finished strongly to secure overall victory and give Robertson the honour of becoming the first skipper in the history of the class to defend the world championship.
Barker Ranch is located on federal land but the decision whether to do a follow-up dig is up to the Inyo County Sheriff's Department, which wanted do more testing -- including sonar readings -- before spending the time and money to excavate.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple, including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
Paul Callahan won the Olympic trails this past weekend and will represent the USA in the Paralympic Sonar class in the UK this upcoming summer.
Several Coast Guard cutters, the Honduran Navy and FBI dive teams then used side-sonar equipment to search for the sunken submarine-like vessel, which was located on July 26.
President Bush's administration has come under fire in recent months from environmentalists angered by its reluctance to cut carbon emissions, by its moves to weaken endangered species legislation and by its support for naval use of sonar systems that can kill whales.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management requested that NOAA investigate the site after it was originally detected as an "unknown sonar contact" by Shell Oil Company during a 2011 oil and gas survey of the Gulf, government officials said.
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