New release of CoastWatch Utilities software (v4.1.5)

NOAA CoastWatch Central Operations Now Distributing the CoastWatch Utilities Version 4.1.5 software: The NOAA CoastWatch Utilities read NetCDF and Hierarchical Data Format data files (such as those distributed by CoastWatch). The software package includes graphical tools for interactive data viewing and command line tools for data processing. The software runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. 

Latest Updates (Version 4.1.5)

• The Java VM version for installation packages with bundled Java VMs is now 17.0.17 for the latest bug and security fixes.
• New palettes, overlay groups, and preferences have been added for the latest Coral Reef Watch data files.
• CDAT and cwrender now use a higher speed expression parser, resulting in 3x faster rendering in some cases of expression-based mask overlays.
• Various documentation was updated and corrected, including adding HTML pages for the command-line tools.
• CDAT has an added window size shortcut (Ctrl-4) to more easily display wide aspect ratio global datasets.
• CDAT startup resource errors are now more accurately reported.
• Color palettes in CDAT and cwrender with few colors now map data values to colors more accurately.  Previously rounding errors resulted in inaccurate mapping.