- A transducer emits continuously a high-frequency sound pulse in the forward direction at an angle of 60° to the keel.
- Higher the sound frequency, smaller the transducer, narrower the beam and higher the accuracy.
- The beam bounces back from the sea bottom.
- The frequency of the bottom echo will be higher when the ship is moving ahead or lower if she is moving astern.
- The Doppler equation is solved to obtain the ship’s speed.
- When the signal is bounced off the sea bed, (called Bottom Track), the speed displayed the “Speed over the ground (SOG)”
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