HR: 1340h
AN: IN13A-1083    [Abstracts]
TI: The SeaDAS Processing and Analysis System: SeaWiFS, MODIS, and Beyond
AU: MacDonald, M D
EM: mike@seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Futuretech Corporation, 614.8 Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Ruebens, M
EM: mark@seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: HCI, 614.8 Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Wang, L
EM: lwang@seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: SAIC, 614.8 Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: * Franz, B A
EM: bryan.franz@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: SAIC, 614.8 Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: The SeaWiFS Data Analysis System (SeaDAS) is a comprehensive software package for the processing, display, and analysis of ocean data from a variety of satellite sensors. Continuous development and user support by programmers and scientists for more than a decade has helped to make SeaDAS the most widely used software package in the world for ocean color applications, with a growing base of users from the land and sea surface temperature community. Full processing support for past (CZCS, OCTS, MOS) and present (SeaWiFS, MODIS) sensors, and anticipated support for future missions such as NPP/VIIRS, enables end users to reproduce the standard ocean archive product suite distributed by NASA's Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG), as well as a variety of evaluation and intermediate ocean, land, and atmospheric products. Availability of the processing algorithm source codes and a software build environment also provide users with the tools to implement custom algorithms. Recent SeaDAS enhancements include synchronization of MODIS processing with the latest code and calibration updates from the MODIS Calibration Support Team (MCST), support for all levels of MODIS processing including Direct Broadcast, a port to the Macintosh OS X operating system, release of the display/analysis-only SeaDAS-Lite, and an extremely active web-based user support forum.
UR: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/seadas/
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 1635 Oceans (1616, 3305, 4215, 4513)
DE: 4260 Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis (3225)
DE: 4264 Ocean optics (0649)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005