posterXIIème Collloque National de la Recherche dans les IUT - CNRIUT'06Ultrasound techniques have applications in various areas: fault detection, medical ultrasound, underwater acoustics, telemetry. It is within this last application that we have developed a system for measuring distance using an ultrasonic transducer to emit conditioning pulses at 40 kHz. The transmitted and received signals are operated under the software MATLA