Sonde (French for ''probe'') may refer to:

Electronic probes

CTD (instrument) ''For information about the CTD-rosette equipment package as a whole, see: Rosette sampler'' A CTD or sonde is an oceanography instrument used to measure the electrical conductivity, temperature, and pressure of seawater (the D stands for "depth, ...

, a type of water quality sensor *

Ionosonde An ionosonde, or chirpsounder, is a special radar for the examination of the ionosphere. The basic ionosonde technology was invented in 1925 by Gregory Breit and Merle A. Tuve and further developed in the late 1920s by a number of prominent phys ...

, a radar for examining the ionosphere *

Radiosonde A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver. Modern radiosondes measure or calcula ...

, a piece of equipment used on weather balloons *

Rocketsonde A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The rockets are used to ...

, a sounding rocket for atmospheric observations *

Dropsonde A dropsonde is an expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude over water to measure (and therefore track) storm conditions as the devi ...

, a weather reconnaissance device

Places

Sonde, Togo Sonde, Togo is a village in the Bimah Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-eastern Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to ...

, a town in Togo * Sonde, Taungtha, a place in

Taungtha Township Taungtha Township is a township of Myingyan District in the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). Its principal town and administrative seat is Taungtha. The township covers an area of and as of 2014 it had a population of 216,399 people. History ...

, Burma (Myanmar) *

Sonde, Uganda Sonde, also Ssonde, is a settlement in Mukono District, in Uganda's Central Region. Location Sonde lies in Misindye Parish, Goma Sub-county, Mukono District, approximately , northeast of Kampala, Uganda's capital city. Sonde is bordered by Na ...

, a settlement in Mukono District, Uganda

Other uses

Sonde (music group) Sonde is a music design and performance ensemble based in Montreal. From 1975 to about 1985, Sonde gave hundreds of performances in North America and Europe on sound sources of their own invention. Sonde was also engaged in television, film, and da ...

, a music ensemble based in Montreal *

Sonde language Sonde is either of two Bantu languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC ...

, either of two Bantu languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Electronic probes

Places

Other uses

See also