Hi SaltyPaws,
I've seen your SAR plugin for OpenCPN and I have a work which consist of developing a Visual Basic .NET language program to simulate search operations on ships and test the expanding square search pattern. The initial position of the vessel is (5, 5) and it is intended to look for a shipwreck that can be in any position within a square with lower left at (0, 0) and upper right at (10, 10), with the coordinates in nautical miles. The program must inform the user if the shipwreck is found as well as the time elapsed since the simulation started.
In addition to the main objective, the following additional objectives are stipulated:
• Graphical representation of the ship's course and the position where the shipwreck is found.
• Automation of the follow-up for a given value of S.
• Determine the success rate for a 3-mile S, after 1000
simulations, for a speed of 15 knots (using a cycle).
Hope you could help me with coding this.
Best of regards,
GoldenBeard