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DIDSON
DIDSON (Dual-frequency IDentification SONar) is a high-frequency imaging sonar, often called an acoustic camera, that turns echoes into video-like images of fish in dark or turbid water.
Fishfinder
A fishfinder is a marine sonar instrument that transmits ultrasonic waves and displays their echoes, showing fish schools, water depth, and the seabed on a screen.
Matched-field processing
Matched-field processing is an array-processing technique that locates wave sources by matching recorded wavefields against synthetic replica fields for candidate positions. Developed in underwater acoustics, it is also used in seismology.
SOSUS
SOSUS (Sound Surveillance System) was a US Navy network of cabled hydrophone arrays on the ocean floor that detected and tracked Soviet submarines during the Cold War.
Sub-bottom profiling
Sub-bottom profiling is a marine acoustic survey method in which sonar pulses transmitted through the seafloor image buried sediment layers, producing a continuous vertical cross-section along a vessel's track.
Underwater acoustic cloak
An underwater acoustic cloak is a material shell that redirects sound waves around an object, making it undetectable to sonar; the first was demonstrated in 2011.