Echolocation

• Acoustic location
  Acoustic location
  
  Acoustic location is the art and science of using sound to determine the distance and direction of something. Location can be done actively or passively, and can take place in gases , liquids , and in solids ....
  , the general use of sound to locate objects
• Animal echolocation
  Animal echolocation
  
  Echolocation, also called biosonar, is the biological sonar used by several animals such as dolphins, shrews, most bats, and most whales....
  , non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate
• Human echolocation
  Human echolocation
  
  Human echolocation is the ability of humans to sense objects in their environment by hearing echoes from those objects. This ability is used by some blindness people to navigate within their environment....
  , the use by people of sound to navigate
• Sonar
  Sonar
  
  Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigation, communicate with or detect other vessels. There are two kinds of sonar: active and passive....
   (sound navigation and ranging), the use of sound to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines
• Echo sounding
  Echo sounding
  
  Echo sounding is the technique of using sound pulses directed from the surface or from a submarine vertically down to measure the distance to the bottom by means of sound waves....
  , listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure the distance to the bottom of the sea, a special case of Sonar
• Medical ultrasonography
  Medical ultrasonography
  
  Diagnostic sonography is an ultrasound-based diagnostic medical imaging technique used to visualize subcutaneous body structures including tendons, muscles, joints, vessels and internal organs for possible pathology or lesions....
  , the use of ultrasound echos to look inside the body
• Echolocation (album)
  Echolocation (album)
  
  Echolocation is the debut album by United States folk-rock band Fruit Bats, released in 2001....
  , a 2001 album by Fruit Bats

See also

• Radar
  Radar
  
  Radar is a system that uses electromagnetic radiation waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or speed of both moving and fixed objects such as aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain....
  , locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted radio waves
• Time to Echolocate
  Time to Echolocate
  
  Time to Echolocate is the debut album by United States indie-rock band The Ebb and Flow, released in 2005....
  , a 2005 album by The Ebb and Flow