Questions/Comments • Re: Scaling and Offset: S3A/B, VIIRS

The answer depends upon the netCDF reader client (for example, SeaDAS does, as does the python netCDF4 API). Most should apply them, so you wouldn't need to do so manually. If you're finding the values don't seem geophysically reasonable, it is likely the scale_factor and add_offset were not applied. The equation is very simple:

geophysical_value = stored_value * scale_factor + add_offset

Sean

Statistics: Posted by OB.DAAC - SeanBailey — Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:22 pm America/New_York

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