The Navy wants to deploy a global surveillance system to hunt for a new generation of silent enemy submarines. But marine scientists and environmentalists are fighting the proposal, saying it ...

Sonar System For The Blind Date: June 26, 2008 Source: American Institute of Physics Summary: Animals use echolocation for hunting and navigation, but visually impaired humans also employ ...

The Navy is using a small but sophisticated sonar system to help locate the wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501.

Sonar system could clarify views of fish stocks Sen. John Kerry urges more funding of technology to give regulators a better look at the numbers of fish in the sea.

Sonar lawsuit--In a Thursday story in the California section, the name of an environmental group that filed suit to stop the U.S. Navy from deploying a new sonar system was misidentified.

Now, through sophisticated computer modeling and robotics, Rolf Müller and Herbert Peremans are at last beginning to reverse-engineer a digital approximation of the bat’s ultrasonic sonar system.

When a sonar system receives multiple echoes from unknown objects, our model could help the crew recognize which one is a threat to damage the submarine—such as the bottom of the sea floor—and which ...

Lidar is a technology that can perform similar functions to radar and sonar, but it’s a next-generation system that may represent the best option for AVs’ ability to “see.” ...

A "sonar vision" system that enables people who are blind from birth to perceive the shape of a face, a house or even words and letters, is now being developed. Using this device, the researchers ...