MIT Media Lab researchers developed a water-air communication system, Translational Acoustic-RF Communication (TARF), where an underwater transmitter directs a sonar signal to the water’s surface, causing tiny vibrations that correspond to transmitted data, which an airborne highly sensitive radar decodes.
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