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Hi,

I am looking for information on the SeaBASS Validation code (https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov/wiki/validation_description). Is this code publicly available? Additionally, is there a MATLAB library that provides similar validation functionality? Any guidance on accessing such resources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello - there are portable match-up tools designed to help you find coincident satellite match-ups, and then extract data from the satellite files including match-up exclusion criteria QA/QC like described in Bailey and Werdell (2006) and on the SeaBASS Validation Description that you linked. They provide very similar functionality to the way that SeaBASS systems process validation. The two scripts are Python (fd_matchup.py and mk_matchup.py) which are distributed through SeaDAS (they're OCSSW scripts) and you can find more information at the following link.

https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov/wiki/validation_matchup_tools

I'm not aware of a MATLAB-specific version of these tools, though it's possible MATLAB can call the Python scripts for you (you'll have to test) if you don't wish to run them from the command line.