MH370 Search Area Bathymetry Visualizations and Story Maps

Multimedia products visualize sea floor terrain from the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The collection includes video flythroughs, images, and translated public communications from the 'Data behind the search for MH370' Story Map. It is provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Visualizing underwater terrain based on bathymetric data from the MH370 search area.
• Creating educational or documentary content based on the provided video flythroughs and images.
• Analyzing public communication materials related to a major maritime search operation.
• Developing multilingual geospatial story maps based on the translated ESRIOnline content.

Strengths

• Includes multimedia visualizations (images and videos) derived from bathymetric survey data.
• Contains translated versions of the primary Story Map into Malay and Chinese.
• Last updated on 2026-04-16, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific MH370 search area.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Developed from a sample of bathymetric data collected during Phase 1 of the MH370 search.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-16 16:31:28.906045

Geography

MH370 search area