deep sea searches
auv-ee
"so for 300-500m side scan range the altitude should be 30-50m."
Exactly!
so I am wondering if the remaining resolution is still appropriate enough to be able to detect the aircraft parts, in other words to find a trace, while the towed sidescan sonar, and the preprogrammed auv are in fact not descending into the deeper valleys, assuming analysis based upon existing bathymetric data alone will provide the result for those area's depicted in light blue on the latest charts in this thread ?
Or maybe something is wrong with my assumption ?
With all respect to all the effort put into this extremely difficult task over a wide area.