Echolocation is the use of sound as a form of navigation.

Navigation using sound

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.

• Sound localization, biological process of locating a sound.

• Sonar (sound navigation and ranging), the technology that uses sound on water or underwater, 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 echoes to look inside the body.

Other

• Echolocation (album), a 2001 album by Fruit Bats

• Echolocation, a 2017 album by Gone Is Gone

See also

• Radar, locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted radio waves

• Lidar, locating objects by detecting the echo of emitted laser beams

• Time to Echolocate, a 2005 album by The Ebb and Flow