A number of initial scans need to be made to determine fluorescence before photobleaching.

According to our initial scans, the explosion likely originated there.

"No nearby shipping detected on initial scans," a watch-stander reported.

Our initial scans haven't penetrated very far into the alien vessel.

"If we'd only caught this ship in our initial scans, we might have known to stay clear of it and Bart wouldn't have had to die."

When we conducted our initial scans of the object's interior," he said, "we found nothing.

"My initial scans are showing what appears to be a large-scale construction project of some sort, Captain," Reed said.

Ten hours ago, their initial scans had revealed no indication that the sanctuary might be found there.

I have been doing a systematic sensor study of the entire planet, matching it against our initial scans.

Plus one which did not register on our initial scans.