Echolocation

Echolocation may refer to:

• Acoustic location, the general use of sound to locate objects
• Animal echolocation, non-human animals emitting sound waves and listening to the echo in order to locate objects or navigate
• Human echolocation, the use of sound by people to navigate
• Sonar (sound navigation and ranging), the use of sound to navigate or to locate other watercraft, usually by submarines
• Echo sounding, listening to the echo of sound pulses to measure the distance to the bottom of the sea, a special case of Sonar
• Medical ultrasonography, the use of ultrasound echos to look inside the body
• Echolocation (album), a 2001 album by Fruit Bats

See also

• Radar, locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted radio waves
• Time to Echolocate, a 2005 album by The Ebb and Flow