Passive seismic — listening of the natural low frequency earth movements, usually with the purpose to guess geological structure and/or to locate the underground source of oil, gas or other valuable resources. Usually the data listening is done in multiple… … Wikipedia
Passive acoustics — is the action of listening for sounds, often at specific frequencies or for purposes of specific analyses. As applied to underwater acoustics, also termed hydroacoustics or SONAR, passive acoustics can be used to listen for underwater explosions … Wikipedia
passive — [[t]pæ̱sɪv[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as passive, you mean that they do not take action but instead let things happen to them. His passive attitude made things easier for me... Even passive acceptance of the regime… … English dictionary
Thing (listening device) — The Thing, also known as The Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or bugs ) to use passive electromagnetic induction to transmit an audio signal. Operating principles The Thing was very simple by today s standards, but… … Wikipedia
Covert listening device — A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. The use of bugs, called bugging, is a common technique in surveillance, espionage and in police… … Wikipedia
Geophysical MASINT — is a branch of Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) that involves phenomena transmitted through the earth (ground, water, atmosphere) and manmade structures including emitted or reflected sounds, pressure waves, vibrations, and… … Wikipedia
Underwater acoustics — The field of underwater acoustics is closely related to a number of other fields of acoustic study, including sonar, transduction, acoustic signal processing, acoustical oceanography, bioacoustics, and physical acoustics.HistoryUnderwater sound… … Wikipedia
North Pacific Right Whale — Taxobox name = North Pacific Right WhaleMSW3 Cetacea | id = 14300009] status = EN status system = iucn3.1 status ref =IUCN2008|assessors=Reilly, S.B., Bannister, J.L., Best, P.B., Brown, M., Brownell Jr., R.L., Butterworth, D.S., Clapham, P.J.,… … Wikipedia
North Pacific right whale — North Pacific right whale[1] Si … Wikipedia
MUSIC — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction written sources of direct and circumstantial evidence the material relics and iconography notated sources oral tradition archives and important collections of jewish music… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Whole Wheat Radio — (WWR) is a listener controlled, internet only webcast and wiki website based in Talkeetna, Alaska, centered around independent music aired 24 hours a day, that is financially and operationally maintained by an all volunteer community as a… … Wikipedia