Texas A&M University
Department of Oceanography

Winter 1998 / Spring 1999 - Vol. 6, No. 3

Measuring the Depths

Side-scan sonar: Illustrations

Making a mosaic

 The width of each "scan" of the towfish's sonar is several times the distance from the sonar to the sea bottom, and the length of each scan is only a fraction of the width. Successive scans are pieced together to form a mosaic like the one you'll see later.

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