Announcement: MODISL1DB 1.5 Released

MODISL1DB 1.5 is now available for the MODIS DB community via http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/seadas/modisl1db/. MODISL1DB is a MODIS Level-1 Direct Broadcast software package capable of processing Aqua and Terra Level-0 data to Level-1A and Level-1B.

IMPORTANT: MODISL1DB version 1.5 contains no processing code changes, but many of the Unix binaries have been renamed for standardization purposes (and to stay in sync with SeaDAS 5.2). This will NOT affect most users, since the wrapper processing scripts have not been renamed and these scripts are all that is needed to carry out the processing.

If you have already installed a previous version of MODISL1DB, simply install MODISL1DB 1.5 in a new directory and point your DBHOME environment variable to this new directory. If you already have the digital elevation maps, there is no need to re-download them. You can simply move them into the new $DBHOME/data/modis/dem/ directory or create a symbolic link that points to them.

-Best regards from the Ocean Biology Processing Group!-

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MODISL1DB 1.5 CHANGES
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Supported platforms:

- Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (kernel 2.6.22)
- RedHat Linux Fedora Core 6 (kernel 2.6.20)
- RedHat Linux Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.11)
- CentOS Linux 4.4 (kernel 2.6.9)
- Intel Macintosh OS X 10.4/10.5
- PowerPC Macintosh OS X 10.4/10.5
- Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) on a Sun Blade 100 Workstation (64-bit binaries only)

Changes:

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-Added support for Ubuntu 7.10 Linux
-Added support for Intel Mac OS X 10.5 (OS X 10.4 is still supported)
-Added support for PowerPC Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4
-Dropped support for PowerPC Mac OS X 10.3
-Dropped support for RedHat Linux Fedora Core 2
-Dropped support for RedHat Linux 7.3

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-New directory location for attitude and ephemeris files. These files
are now stored and accessed in $DBHOME/var/modis/atteph/ (instead of
in $DBHOME/data/modis/atteph/).

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-Many Unix binaries have been renamed. This will NOT affect most users,
since the wrapper processing scripts have not been renamed and these
scripts are all that is needed to carry out the processing. However,
if you happen to make direct use of any of the binaries contained in
the MODISL1DB bin directory, please check the following table to see
if the changes affect you:

  Old Unix Binary Name      New Unix Binary Name
  --------------------            --------------------
  aqua_l1bgen                   l1bgen_modisa
  fix_L0                            l0fix_modis
  geolocate                       geogen_modis
  MODl1extract                  l1aextract_modis
  MODll2snpx                    lonlat2pixline (this is a new binary)
  modis_l1agen                 l1agen_modis
  terra_l1bgen                  l1bgen_modist
  write_5min_gran             l0chunk_modis
  write_constructor_file      l0cnst_write_modis

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AFFECTED FILES:

bin/l1bgen_modisa
bin/l0fix_modis
bin/geogen_modis
bin/l1aextract_modis
bin/lonlat2pixline
bin/l1agen_modis
bin/l1bgen_modist
bin/l0chunk_modis
bin/l0cnst_write_modis

New Aqua LUTs included:
data/modisa/cal/MYD02_Emissive_LUTs.V5.0.35.1a.hdf
data/modisa/cal/MYD02_QA_LUTs.V5.0.35.1a.hdf
data/modisa/cal/MYD02_Reflective_LUTs.V5.0.35.1a.hdf

New Terra LUTs included:
data/modist/cal/MOD02_Emissive_LUTs.V5.0.40.3a.hdf
data/modist/cal/MOD02_QA_LUTs.V5.0.40.3a.hdf
data/modist/cal/MOD02_Reflective_LUTs.V5.0.40.3a.hdf

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