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- From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Phased sonar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.025137.5570@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1993Jan10.104636.5690@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:51:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.104636.5690@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
- >
- >Hi,
- >
- > I've been told, by those who ought to know, that you can take 3 or
- >more sonar transponders, send out a pulse, and then watch what happens to
- >all three of them on the return trip to get an entire effective 360 deg.
- >sweep of whatever you're looking at. Supposedly almost as good as having
- >one rotating transponder, but no more need to rotate -- neat.
-
- 'supposedly almost as good' ... grumble...
- >
- > So... could someone give me a reference to where I could read all
- >the details about how this is done? Or, if it ought to be glaringly
- >obvious and simple, explain how it's done?
-
- I would imagine that a phased sonar works on the same basic principles
- as a phased array radar. (just using different kinds of waves)
-
- The 3 transponders are like 3 antennas. Send pulses into the transponders
- with different phase angles, and the outputs add and substract in nifty
- patterns. The outputs interfere, cancelling out, or add, making the output
- focused in a certain direction.
-
- WIth nifty control electronics, who needs a spinning transponder/antenna.
- >
- > Thanks.
- >
- > ---Joel Kolstad
-
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