SeaDAS 7.1 Release Notes | ![]() |
Release Date: Sept 17, 2014
The SeaDAS development team is pleased to announce the release of SeaDAS 7.1, which is built atop slightly modified BEAM 5.0 version. SeaDAS 7.1 is a significant release in several respects. It has a new user interface with cleaner, simpler and more attractive layout which makes finding and using tools easier. Frequently used tools have default behavior that reduces user operation time. It also includes new tools, such as bathymetry and mask tool and contour operator tool. In addition to new features, it includes bug fixes and feature enhancements for the previous versions. **************************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SeaDAS Application ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Features: Reorganized toolbars, menu items and the whole UI layout and default layout; redesigned user interface icons Added Bathemetry and mask tool Added Contour Operation Graticule tool is improved significantly: - Users can control label location, label angle, line spacing, font size, tick-marks, border, widths, colors, and transparencies; - Default behavior produces a good auto-spaced grid-lines on any image with just one click. Color-Bar tool is improved: - Users can control number of tick-marks, decimal places, font size, manually entered points, scaling factor, color-bar sizing and transparency. - Color-bar can now be put as a layer on top of the image. - Default behavior produces a good color-bar with just one click. Major revision to Color Palette Tool: - Color schemes selector enables easy selection of product specific and custom schemes. - Saves and stores selected scheme and palette name. Changed wording to avoid confusion. Changed the default background and no-data colors. Geometries are now selectable and movable. Geometries can now be defined with entered coordinates. The help page structure has been reorganized, and an overview page has been added which briefly describes the most commonly used components with their menu locations. Bug Fixes: - Fixed reported bugs from SeaDAS 7.0.2 - Fixed issues with log scaling in Color Palette tool and Color-bar tool. - Fixed issues related to vector layer - Fixed issues with coastline dimap saving - Fixed issues with multi-processor - Fixed issues with SeaDAS help Known Issues: - The majority of the component-level help pages still reflect SeaDAS 7.0 and may have wording and/or feature discrepancies. ============================================================================ Regards, The SeaDAS Development Group