Release notes - Sentinel Application Platform - S3TBX-4.0

Changes in S3TBX 4.0

New Features and Important Changes

• New colour classification based on the Forel–Ule scale has been implement for OLCI, MERIS, SeaWiFS and MODIS. Thanks to Hendrik Jan van der Woerd and Marcel R. Wernand from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NOIZ) for the algorithm and the validation.

• The Sentinel-3 Reader have been improved according errors and format changes have been adapted.

• The fractional Land/Water Mask operator has been moved into SNAP because of its general usability.

Solved issues

Bugs

• [SIIITBX-096] - Read SLSTR L2 WCT oblique view bands
• [SIIITBX-097] - Subset of SeaDas L2 files not correct
• [SIIITBX-099] - Silent error on product type null or empty
• [SIIITBX-102] - Apply solar illumination correction factors to SPOT VGT P products
• [SIIITBX-108] - Reading from NetCDF file is not snychronised in all cases in OLCI reader
• [SIIITBX-112] - Reprojecting SLSTR L1B products with tie-point geo-codings creates shifts within images
• [SIIITBX-113] - S3 SLSTR WST should not use valid mask for its geo-coding

New Feature

• [SIIITBX-114] - Integrate the colour classification based on discrete Forel–Ule scale

Task

• [SIIITBX-107] - Move Land/water mask operator into SNAP

Improvement

• [SIIITBX-098] - Rad2Refl operator is slow
• [SIIITBX-100] - LandsatReader should not search mtl file if it is already specified
• [SIIITBX-104] - Cloud operator should consistently use the system logger