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.