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
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