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SeaDAS Version 9.0 Released

Data Update
Issued
April 11, 2024
Resolved

NASA's Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC) released the Sea, earth, atmosphere Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) version 9.0.

Highlights of what's new:

  • Visualization and analysis of Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) data, inclusive of Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), Spectro-polarimeter for Planetary Exploration one (SPEXone), and Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter #2 (HARP2), is now supported.
  • Science processing of PACE OCI data is now supported.
  • The Spectrum View tool and Angular View tools have been revised to handle the needs of analyzing PACE data with its abundance of spectral and angular based bands.
  • New tools refined (previously in Beta version) are: Angular View, Image Animator, Annotation Metadata, and the Soft Button user assignable feature.
  • Preferences pages and new fields have been added for many of the science processing tools.
  • Several new science processing tools have been added.
  • Visualization of Level 2 files now is improved with a preference page which allows user configuration of mask colors and order as well as several configurable multi-flag composite masks.
  • Various other minor additions and bug fixes have been implemented.
  • Mac OS Ventura and the Mac M1/M2 chip is supported.
  • Updated Science Processing (OCSSW) docker image is available to support processing on Windows.
  • Will support V2024.0 OCSSW release tag when it becomes available (currently you can use T2024.16).

For more details, read the full v9.0 release notes.

Details

Last Updated

Nov. 19, 2025

Published

April 11, 2024

Data Center/Project

Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC)