SeaDAS Features

The features below describe the main capabilies of the SeaDAS software. To see a list of recent feature improvements, view the Release Summary of the latest software distribution.

Visualization

• Very fast image display and navigation even of giga-pixel images
• Advanced layer management allows adding and manipulation of new overlays such as images of other bands, images from WMS servers or ESRI shapefiles
• Rich region-of-interest definitions for statistics and various plotting functions
• Easy bitmask definition and overlay
• Flexible band arithmetic using arbitrary mathematical expressions
• Accurate reprojection and ortho-rectification to common map projections
• Geo-coding and rectification using ground control points
• Coastline, land/water masking for navigated data
• Store and restore the current session including all opened files, views and layers

Science Processing

SeaDAS offers the ability for users to process satellite data from a number of ocean color missions (both U.S. and International) through the various processing levels:

• Level 0 to Level 1 processing is offered for the MODIS sensors on-board the Terra and Aqua spacecraft
• Level 1 to Level 2 (l2gen)
• Level 2 to Level 3 binned (l2bin)
• Temporal binning of Level 3 (l3bin)
• Mapping of Level 1 data (l1mapgen)
• Mapping of Level 2 data (l2mapgen)
• Mapping of Level 3 binned data (smigen)
• Browse file creation (l1brsgen,l2brsgen)

Statistics

• Statistics tool
• Histogram
• Scatter Plot
• Spectrum Plot
• Correlative Plot
• Profile Plot