SeaDAS Overview

SeaDAS Version 7.0

Overview

SeaDAS is a visualization, analysis and data processing package. The core components of the SeaDAS visualization and analysis applications are based on BEAM, the Basic ENVISAT Toolbox for (A)ATSR and MERIS. BEAM is a collection of executable tools and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which have been developed to facilitate the utilisation, viewing and processing of ENVISAT MERIS, AATSR and ASAR data. SeaDAS extends BEAM to include support for the data products produced by NASA's Ocean Biology Processing Group. This support includes data processing capabilities to allow users to process these data between the various processing levels (i.e. Level 0 through Level 3)

The main components of the SeaDAS are:

Supported Product Formats

This following table lists the data product formats which are supported using the reader modules provided in the standard installation.

Instrument Platform Format
MERIS Envisat Envisat N1
MERIS Binned Level-3 Envisat netCDF
AATSR Envisat Envisat N1
ASAR Envisat Envisat N1
ATSR ERS ERS
ATSR ERS Envisat N1
SAR ERS Envisat N1
Chris Proba HDF4
AVNIR-2 ALOS CEOS
PRISM ALOS CEOS
MODIS Aqua, Terra HDF
AVHRR/3 NOAA-KLM NOAA
METOP
TM Thematic Mapper Landsat 5 Fast Format
GeoTIFF
Aquarius SAC-D HDF5
SeaWiFS Orbview-2 HDF
OCTS ADEOS HDF
CZCS NIMBUS-7 HDF
VIIRS Suomi NPP HDF-5
HICO International Space Station (L1B) HDF-5
OCM-2 OceanSat HDF
GETASSE DEM N/A  
SPOT VEGETATION SPOT HDF
Generic NetCDF/CF-products N/A NetCDF/CF
HDF-EOS gridded products N/A HDF

Source Code

The SeaDAS/BEAM visualization software has been developed under the GNU public license and comes with full source code (JavaTM).

The SeaDAS processing components have been developed under the NASA Open Source Agreement
https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/opensource/nosa/

Supported Platforms

SeaDAS/BEAM is programmed in pure Java™ to allow a maximum portability. The software has been successfully tested under MS Windows™ XP®, Windows™ Vista, Windows™ 7 and also Mac OS X and as well as under Linux and Solaris® operating systems.