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SeaDAS is a comprehensive software package developed by NASA OB.DAAC for the
processing, display, analysis, and quality control of remote-sensing Earth data. SeaDAS is open-source and
serves as the official distribution point of the NASA OBPG Science Software (SeaDAS-OCSSW).
The visualization and
analysis tools can also be used on many other unsupported satellite missions. Customized algorithms can be
developed and applied within SeaDAS to evaluate ocean, land and atmospheric data, as well as to produce
true color imagery. SeaDAS can also integrate SeaBASS format field measurement (in situ) data for comparative
analysis with relevant satellite data. Scientific data products can be exported from SeaDAS in file formats
readily readable by many third party GIS analysis packages.
SeaDAS 8 serves as an application platform to the NASA SeaDAS Toolbox. The core elements of NASA SeaDAS
science processing are contained within the SeaDAS ToolBox. The SeaDAS Toolbox comes installed within
the SeaDAS 8 Platform and can also can be installed directly within ESA SNAP. SeaDAS 8 Platform is a NASA
released version of SNAP which is branded and tailored to the needs of the SeaDAS user.
SeaDAS Platform Release Notes can be found at:
https://github.com/seadas/seadas-toolbox/tree/master/docs/release-notes/seadas-platform
The core elements of NASA SeaDAS science processing are contained within the SeaDAS ToolBox. This includes:
SeaDAS Toolbox Release Notes can be found at:
https://github.com/seadas/seadas-toolbox/tree/master/docs/release-notes/seadas-toolbox"
This is the official NASA science processing software (also known as OCSSW - Ocean Science Software) which applies the NASA OBPG (Ocean Biology Processing Group) algorithms to satellite data in order to characterize and calibrate the data and generate science quality OBPG products. Additional coinciding ancillary data are retrieved and used to correct for and calibrate out the atmospheric components of the signal in order to determine an Earth/ocean surface component of the signal and consequently to generate higher order products in the optical path such as Chlorophyll, SST, KD_490, etc. SeaDAS processing provides a standardized data format across a multitude of satellites, currently supporting over 15 US and international satellite missions.
This toolbox includes the ESA processors specific to the Sentinel 3 satellites. This toolbox also contains the NASA science file readers specific to all NASA supported satellite missions.
This ESA Platform is similar to the SeaDAS Platform without some of the SeaDAS specific tailored features. The SeaDAS Toolbox may be installed directly within SNAP.