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- adjective Involving multiple
beams
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The Parkes telescope was built about the same time as the Green Bank 140 foot telescope, but it has an excellent alt-az design and is still in active use, with multibeam receivers making HI and pulsar surveys of the southern sky.
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Research in deeper offshore waters has utilized multibeam sonar and submersibles to document rarely seen biological resources and topographical features contained within Monument waters.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve 2008
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By 1994 this gizmo was being used together with a multibeam version on board the USNS Littlehales naval oceanographic survey vessel to make very high-resolution maps of the seabed off the coast of Albania.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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By 1994 this gizmo was being used together with a multibeam version on board the USNS Littlehales naval oceanographic survey vessel to make very high-resolution maps of the seabed off the coast of Albania.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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We can monitor the ship's position, heading and speed; wind speed and direction; activity throughout the ship on the closed-circuit TV system; the firing status of each of the 10 air guns; the subbottom profiler; the multibeam; and the geometry of the hydrophone array, in depth and in map view, strung out behind us, extending six kilometers back toward where we've been.
NYT > Home Page By BERNARD COAKLEY 2011
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"Take one of our ships with a multibeam echo sounder" - the sonar system.
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Several years ago IFM-GEOMAR researchers conducted a detailed multibeam mapping survey off Chile.
NSF News 2010
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The images of the glaciers were created from data collected on the Italian research ship "Urania" using a multibeam echo-sounder installed in the ship's hull (an instrument that measures the topography of the sea bed using multiple sounding beams).
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Equipment brought to Maine includes a 28-foot Sea Ark vessel, single-beam echo sounder, side scan sonar and multibeam sonar.
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An important aspect of the rapid response mission involves swath multibeam sonar mapping of the seafloor to produce detailed topographic maps.
NSF News 2010
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