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'''Scanning''' is the primary method of finding objects and locations in space.
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Scanning & Probing is a method of finding objects, ships and hidden sites in space.  Every ship in Eve has an [[On-board System Scanner]] that can be used to search for objects not found on the [[Overview]].  Every ship in Eve with the exception of shuttles can fit a Scan Probe Launcher module to launch probes.  Probes greatly increase the both the number of types of objects that can be detected and the range a which they can scan.
 
  
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==Skills==
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== Finding things with scanning ==
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* [[Skills#Astrometrics|Astrometrics]]
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This table shows the type of scanning you will most likely use when looking for a specific result.
  
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==Scan Equipment==
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===Directional Scanner===
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This is built into every ship, and can be used to discover, but not pinpoint, objects up to 14 AU away from you.  You can do a lot with this little gem.  See [[Directional Scanner]].
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! To find this item !! Use this kind of scanner
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| Names of objects within 14AU of your ship || [[#Overview, Map and Directional Scan|Overview, D-scan, Map]]
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| Locations or coordinates of objects || [[#Probe Scanning|Probe]]
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| Asteroid belt || [[#Overview, Map and Directional Scan|Overview, D-scan, Map]]
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| Asteroid size and composition || [[#Survey Scanning|Survey]]
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| Ice belt || [[#Overview, Map and Directional Scan|Overview, D-scan, Map]]
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| Ice size and composition || [[#Survey Scanning|Survey]]
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| Gas cloud || [[#Overview, Map and Directional Scan|Overview, D-scan, Map]]
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| Moon mining || [[#Probe Scanning|Survey Probe]]
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| Wormhole || [[#Probe Scanning|Scan Probe]]
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| Player piloted ships || [[#Probe Scanning|Combat Probe]]
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Follow the links below for more detailed information.
  
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===On-board System Scanner===
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== Overview, Map and Directional Scan ==
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The on-board scanner can be used to find NPC combat sites. These sites have rats appropriate to the systems security status (''If this is wrong, edit this, I've never scanned down and looked at nullsec sites.'') The on-board scanner can not be used while warping, unlike probes.  To find these sites, you simply warp to planets, initiate the scan, and warp to any results.  These sites can also be found by probes, and are ''very'' easy to scan down with even one probe.  They can be distinguished from exploration sites because they do not show up on scans filtered down to cosmic signatures.
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[[image:Opendscan.jpg|thumb]]
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Every ship in EVE comes with an onboard [[Overview]] window that can be configured to show planets, asteroid belts, moons, stations, and other useful objects in the current system. A thorough study of the Overview is highly recommended because it is difficult to play EVE without this information.
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Every ship in EVE also comes with an onboard [[Directional Scanner]] (D-scan) that can be used to discover, but not pinpoint via distance or coordinates, objects up to 14 AU away from the ship.  
  
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===Scan Equipment Types===
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This equipment can be used to search for [[Cosmic Anomalies]] (including ice belts and gas clouds) and other objects not found on the Overview. 
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* [[Core Probe Launcher]]
 
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* [[Expanded Probe Launcher]]
 
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* [[Core Scanner Probe]]
 
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* [[Combat Scanner Probe]]
 
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* [[Deep Space Scanner Probe]]
 
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====Faction====
 
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* [[Sisters Core Probe Launcher]]
 
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* [[Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher]]
 
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* [[Sisters Core Scanner Probe]]
 
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* [[Sisters Deep Space Scanner Probe]]
 
  
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Any probe can be used in any launcher with the capacity to load it.  Practically, this means an Expanded launcher can launch any probe, and a Core launcher can only launch Core probes.  Expanded launchers can also be used to launch moon mining probes.
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In addition, each ship has a [[Directional Scanner|Solar System Map]] that displays the overview and directional scanning data in graphic form.
  
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==Scan Bonuses==
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== Survey Scanning ==
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===Skills===
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Asteroid and ice miners may use [[Mining#Survey_scanner|survey scanners]] to measure distances to various targets and monitor their volume as they are mined. Survey scanners typically measure resource type, quantity and distance. They have a maximum range of 15 km (23 km with T2), and they occupy a mid-level fitting slot.
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* [[Skills#Astrometric Acquisition|Astrometric Acquisition]]
 
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* [[Skills#Astrometric Pinpointing|Astrometric Pinpointing]]
 
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* [[Skills#Astrometric Rangefinding|Astrometric Rangefinding]]
 
  
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==Ship Equipment==
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While the range of a scanner is small, the scanned asteroids stay in the menu if the scanner is run again at a different point within the same grid. Therefore, it is possible to get the contents of the entire belt/anomaly by scanning it multiple times at different spots without closing the survey scanner window.
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===Rigs===
 
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This rig increases the scan strength of your probes by 10%, subject to the usual stacking penalties.  Installing the T1 rigs requires Jury Rigging 3 and Astrometrics Rigging 1.  With the release of small rigs, you can now rig the usual scanning ships very inexpensively.
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== Probe Scanning ==
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Every ship in EVE except for shuttles and freighters can fit a Scan Probe Launcher module.  These launch probes that increase the number of types of objects that can be detected and the range at which they can be scanned. Such probes provide distance and coordinate information. A probe launcher will take up a high fitting slot.
  
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A probe launcher can launch various types of probes:
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* "[[Probe scanning|Scan]]" probes are used extensively in [[Exploration]] to find [[wormholes]] and other [[Cosmic Anomalies]]. They are also used to find PvE [[combat sites]] and other [[cosmic signatures]].
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Each race has a T1 frigate with scanning bonuses. While the bonuses are not as great as covops ships give, they're still worthwhile.
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* "Combat" probes can pinpoint the location of other ships. These are most frequently used in PvP.
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* [[Moon mining]] uses specialized [[Moon_mining#Equipment|survey probes]] which investigate a solar system and return the ore name, the quantity, the TypeID, and the ID's for the Solar System, Planet and Moon. (Note that these are ''probes'' and must be launched - as opposed to the use of a survey ''scanner'' as described above.)
  
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* [[Magnate]] ([[Amarr]])
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* [[Heron]] ([[Caldari]])
 
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* [[Imicus]] ([[Gallente]])
 
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* [[Probe]] ([[Minmatar]])
 
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Covops ships get a 10% per level bonus to scanning.  Note that you must uncloak to launch scan probes, but you can use them and recover them while remaining cloaked.
 
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* [[Buzzard]] ([[Caldari]])
 
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Strategic cruisers can be fitted with a subsystem that gives them probing bonuses.  If you're in a roaming gang of strategic cruisers, this might be useful -- but note that you can buy about 50 covops ships for the price of one of these. 
 
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* [[Legion]] ([[Amarr]]) utilizing [[Subsystems:Electronics#Emergent Locus Analyzer|Emergent Locus Analyzer]]
 
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* [[Tengu]] ([[Caldari]]) utilizing [[Subsystems:Electronics#Emergent Locus Analyzer|Emergent Locus Analyzer]]
 
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* [[Proteus]] ([[Gallente]]) utilizing [[Subsystems:Electronics#Emergent Locus Analyzer|Emergent Locus Analyzer]]
 
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* [[Loki]] ([[Minmatar]]) utilizing [[Subsystems:Electronics#Emergent Locus Analyzer|Emergent Locus Analyzer]]
 
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Each of these is available in a standard and a faction (Sisters of Eve) version.  The faction versions give scan strength and cycle time bonuses.
 
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This module has modest fitting requirements, but can only use core scan probes, not combat or specialty probes.
 
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This module is a pain to fit, due to the high CPU requirements.  However, it's the only launcher that can fire combat scanner probes, deep core probes, and explorer (moon) probes.
 
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==Scan Results==
 
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===Gravimetric===
 
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===Ladar===
 
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===Magnetometric===
 
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===Unknown===
 
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==Scanning & Probing Techniques and Tricks==
 
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* Holding Shift modifies all active probes at once.
 
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This is VERY useful for setting range on all probes at once.
 
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* Scan Probe Placement (With 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 probes).
 
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You can find any site with just 4 probes, assuming you have enough sensor strength.  If the site is too weak, you can pile on additional probes and it may work.
 
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* Quick Scans (With or without Deep Space Probes).
 
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Deep space probes are primarily useful in very huge system.  However, they are very weak, making them less useful than other probes for finding anything but deep-safe-spotted ships in very large systems.
 
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* Sites only seem to spawn in a sphere a few AU around planets.
 
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If you are scanning large reaches of empty space, you might find mission sites and abandoned drones, but probably not much else.
 
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*The probe-cubes can be clicked and dragged.  If you grab the top or bottom, they slide on a horizontal plane, if you grab the sides of the cube, they slide on a vertical plane.
 
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This is why every so often you grab the cube and it slides away to somewhere weird- you accidentally grabbed the side of the cube instead of the top.
 
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===Results, and What They Mean===
 
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*Sphere:  The result is somewhere in the sphere.  One probe only has a hit and approximate range.  You ''can'' get multiple probes with independent hits, it can be messy.  This is the least accurate hit.
 
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*Circle:  Two probes have approximate distances.  More accurate, and likely to yield better hits with more probes.
 
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*Two Dots:  Three probes have distances, which narrows it down to two possible locations.  Likely to be more or less accurate, but beware of deviation.
 
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*One Dot:  Four probes can see the result.  Once scan strength reaches 100%, the result will be warpable.
 
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===Quick and Dirty How-To ===
 
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*Drop as many probes as needed to cover the system.  This can be as few as one Core probe, but larger systems may require more.  Scan, and use the filter to limit your results to what you want to find.
 
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*Once you get a result, position probes to cover that result.  This may be as easy as moving them around a little, or covering a sphere.  Either way, keep in mind results from long range scans are ''very'' inaccurate sometimes.
 
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*With luck, you will get one result.  If you get circles, or more spheres, your initial guess was off and you need to reposition and try again.  One way to easily cover a sphere-result, is to put 4 probes around the edges at enough range to cover the entire sphere.  Put them at whatever you want to call the top bottom, left and right, looking down from above.  If this is impractical, overlap the sphere as much as possible and try to narrow it down to a circle-result.
 
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*Once you get it down to one result, close probes in, bring them to the same plane as the result, drop scan radius, and re-scan.  4 probes with enough strength is all that is required to find anything.  One way to do this is to position the probes in a square around the result, with 4 of the slide arrows touching the result-circle.
 
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*Repeat the process of dropping range, positioning arrows on the result circle, and rescanning until you get your result, or you hit minimum range and still have poor strength- in this case, you need stronger probes!  (Core probes should be used to find sites, even with high scanning skills, combat probes will have a hard time finding sites, and deep space probes even worse.)
 

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Scanning is the primary method of finding objects and locations in space.

Finding things with scanning

This table shows the type of scanning you will most likely use when looking for a specific result.

To find this item Use this kind of scanner
Names of objects within 14AU of your ship Overview, D-scan, Map
Locations or coordinates of objects Probe
Asteroid belt Overview, D-scan, Map
Asteroid size and composition Survey
Ice belt Overview, D-scan, Map
Ice size and composition Survey
Gas cloud Overview, D-scan, Map
Moon mining Survey Probe
Wormhole Scan Probe
Player piloted ships Combat Probe

Follow the links below for more detailed information.

Overview, Map and Directional Scan

Opendscan.jpg

Every ship in EVE comes with an onboard Overview window that can be configured to show planets, asteroid belts, moons, stations, and other useful objects in the current system. A thorough study of the Overview is highly recommended because it is difficult to play EVE without this information. Every ship in EVE also comes with an onboard Directional Scanner (D-scan) that can be used to discover, but not pinpoint via distance or coordinates, objects up to 14 AU away from the ship.

This equipment can be used to search for Cosmic Anomalies (including ice belts and gas clouds) and other objects not found on the Overview.

In addition, each ship has a Solar System Map that displays the overview and directional scanning data in graphic form.

Survey Scanning

Asteroid and ice miners may use survey scanners to measure distances to various targets and monitor their volume as they are mined. Survey scanners typically measure resource type, quantity and distance. They have a maximum range of 15 km (23 km with T2), and they occupy a mid-level fitting slot.

While the range of a scanner is small, the scanned asteroids stay in the menu if the scanner is run again at a different point within the same grid. Therefore, it is possible to get the contents of the entire belt/anomaly by scanning it multiple times at different spots without closing the survey scanner window.

Probe Scanning

Every ship in EVE except for shuttles and freighters can fit a Scan Probe Launcher module. These launch probes that increase the number of types of objects that can be detected and the range at which they can be scanned. Such probes provide distance and coordinate information. A probe launcher will take up a high fitting slot.

A probe launcher can launch various types of probes:

  • "Scan" probes are used extensively in Exploration to find wormholes and other Cosmic Anomalies. They are also used to find PvE combat sites and other cosmic signatures.
  • "Combat" probes can pinpoint the location of other ships. These are most frequently used in PvP.
  • Moon mining uses specialized survey probes which investigate a solar system and return the ore name, the quantity, the TypeID, and the ID's for the Solar System, Planet and Moon. (Note that these are probes and must be launched - as opposed to the use of a survey scanner as described above.)
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