During the search for the missing aircraft Malaysia Airlines flying MH370 the Australian Transport Safety Bureau were responsible for conducting underwater search operations. Part of this search included a bathymetric survey to exercise a detailed map of the ocean flooring topography inwards the search area. In ane of the largest marine surveys always conducted the ATSB collected 710,000 foursquare kilometres of bathymetric data.
The Australian Government has released an Esri Story Map, The Data Behind the Search for MH370, which explains where too why the underwater search for the missing aircraft took place. It also visualizes roughly of the bathymetric information collected during the search.
The information collected is roughly of the highest resolution bathymetric information always collected for this area. The information was so useful non entirely for helping to straight the search for the missing aircraft exactly volition live on invaluable to marine scientists too scientists inwards other disciplines. The Australian authorities has so made the information freely available. You tin download the information from marine.ga.gov.au.
