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• Side-scan sonar — (also sometimes called side scan sonar, sidescan sonar, side looking sonar, side looking sonar and bottom classification sonar) is a category of sonar system that is used to create efficiently an image of large areas of the sea floor. This tool… …   Wikipedia

• Side-Scan Sonar — (schematisch) Side Scan Sonar ist eine Technik zur Erforschung des Meeresbodens und zur Klassifizierung von Objekten auf dem Meeresboden. Es wird ein Sonargerät verwendet, das in einem breiten Streuwinkel Impulse auf den Meeresboden aussendet.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Side-Scan-Sonar — (schematisch) Side Scan Sonar ist eine Technik zur Erforschung des Meeresbodens und zur Klassifizierung von Objekten auf dem Meeresboden. Es wird ein Sonargerät verwendet, das in einem breiten Streuwinkel Impulse auf den Meeresboden aussendet.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• side-scan sonar — noun Date: 1967 a sonar that scans the ocean floor to the side of a ship s track and is used especially for mapping the ocean bottom …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• side-scan sonar — ˈ ̷ ̷ ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a sonar that scans the ocean floor to the side of a ship s track and is used especially for mapping the ocean bottom …   Useful english dictionary

• SCAN 20 — NOTOC Infobox Aircraft name=SCAN 20 caption= type=Flying boat trainer manufacturer=SCAN designer= first flight=1945 introduced=1951 retired= status= primary user=French Navy more users= produced= number built=24 variants with their own… …   Wikipedia

• scan — scannable, adj. /skan/, v., scanned, scanning, n. v.t. 1. to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page. 2. to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize. 3. to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large… …   Universalium

• Scan (Prison Break episode) — Infobox Television episode Title = Scan Series = Prison Break Caption = Season = 2 Episode = 3 Airdate = September 4, 2006 Production = 2AKJ03 Guests = Matt DeCaro John Heard Holly Valance Writer = Zack Estrin Director = Bryan Spicer Season list …   Wikipedia

• Blip-to-scan ratio — In radar systems, the blip to scan ratio, or blip/scan, is the ratio of the number of times a target appears on a radar display to the number of times it could have been seen. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/blip scan ratio?cat=technology blip… …   Wikipedia

• Horizontal scan rate — Horizontal scan rate, or horizontal frequency, usually expressed in kilohertz, is the frequency at which a CRT moves the electron beam from the left side of the display to the right and back, and therefore describes the number of horizontal lines …   Wikipedia