Echolocation
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Echolocation is the use of "sound" as a form of navigation
[edit]
Navigation using sound
- Acoustic location, the general use of sound to locate objects
- Animal echolocation, non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate
- Human echolocation, the use of sound by people to navigate
- Sonar (sound navigation and ranging), the use of sound on water or underwater, to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines
- Echo sounding, listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure the distance to the bottom of the sea, a special case of Sonar
- Medical ultrasonography, the use of ultrasound echoes to look inside the body
[edit]
Other
- Echolocation (album), a 2001 album by Fruit Bats
[edit]
See also
- Radar, locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted radio waves
- Time to Echolocate, a 2005 album by The Ebb and Flow
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Echolocation" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
