Sentence examples for sonar return from inspiring English sources

"Maybe the anomaly is a coral feature that just happens to give a sonar return unlike any other coral feature on the entire reef slope," the group said.

"What initially got our  attention is that there is no other sonar return like it in the entire body of  data collected," Ric Gillespie, director of TIGHAR, told Discovery News.

The best of these is professor Alan Grant's reaction to a sonar return of a still-entombed velociraptor skeleton.

The algorithms are designed to be a replacement for sonar, returning the location of the nearest obstacle in a given direction.

During 1998 and 1999, a seafloor-mapping sonar mounted on the hull of the US Navy nuclear submarine USS Hawkbill serendipitously acquired sonar returns from the base of the arctic ice canopy despite design features intended to minimize such returns.

William O'Halloran, Director of Marine Operations at Bluefin Robotics which manufactured the submarine, said the vehicle will scan an area using sonar technology and return objects of interest.

With suitable electronic processing, the returning sonar beams will paint shadowy, black and white mosaic portraits of the underlying geology, based on the degree to which particular kinds of rocks absorb or reflect sound.

Standard topographic processing of the data revealed coherent signals collected between the outgoing sonar pulse and the first returned bottom echoes.

After locating one or both vessels, the search ship (survey vessel SV Geosounder, chartered from the subsea exploration company DOF Subsea Australia) would return to port and replace the sonar with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to photograph and video the wrecks.

The clicking produces a fan-shaped sonar beam that bounces off an object and returns an echo to the bat.

The president, Pat Thrasher, said Monday that the group has a significant amount of video and sonar data that searchers will pore over on the return voyage to Hawaii this week and afterward to look for things that may be tough to see at first glance.