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| Requirements |
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The Visualization Tool has the following requirements to work:
    - JAVA 5 (1.5.x)
    - more than 100 MB of free disc space
    - more than 512 MB RAM 

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| Known Limitations and Bugs |
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1. For Mac OS X users, depending on the system configuration, the user may not be able to execute the
smos-vt.app after installation is complete. If this is the case, the user shall change manually, 
on the command line, the permissions of the file:
	<install-dir>/smos-vt.app/Contents/MacOS/smos-vt 

by executing the following command:
	chmod +x <install-dir>/smos-vt.app/Contents/MacOS/smos-vt

2. BMP export is not available in Mac OS X


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| Release Notes |
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Version 3.5.4 (2008-07-31)
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  => [NEW] Support for DPGS format L1b products (Dual and Full Pol)
  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 394 - Problem reading L1C Full poll science products in DPGS format
  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 396 - Problem displaying (U,V) plots for HV scenes in L1b Full pol Science products
  => [REOPEN] SPR: 274 (Compatibility with JAVA 6) - Due to the fact that there is no Java 6 release for MAC PPC the VT was migrated back to Java 5.


Version 3.5.2 (2008-03-28)
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  => [NEW] Support for DPGS format L1c products (science and browse)
  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 274 - Compatibility with JAVA 6


Version 3.5.1 (2007-09-21)
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  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 302 - Installer is not working in Mac OS X Intel
  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 307 - L1c Snapshots read from product are cutting part of the snapshot on latitude
  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 313 - crop options in X and Y coordinates are not available for L1b displays
  => [CORRECTED] SPR: 312 - Error message is not displayed if it is attempted to read an invalid product;



Version 3.5 (2007-07-16)
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  => [NEW] Introduction of automatic update functionality;
  => [NEW] Optimisation of L1b and L1c displays;
  => [NEW] Updated to Eclipse RCP 3.3;
  => [NEW] DGG preferences improved, now include: Load at startup, Save last opened, Force load;
  => [NEW] Added cache preference page to configure: L1c cache size, L1b cache size;
  => [NEW] 2D Viewer improved (Mouse whell scroll (Ctrl+Whell), default tool is the panning tool, not the selection tool);
  => [NEW] Cropping now includes preferences for colour bar: Reset colour bar scale limits to visible values and recompute data, define custom values for the colour bar scale, or adjust to data (previous behaviour).

  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 272 - Export with colorbar;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 273 - Incorrect colors used in BMP export in Linux;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 275 - Validation of L1B Product displays;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 277 - Button "Show Details" does not do anything;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 278 - Crop dialog box;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 279 - Crop dialog box behaviour and typo;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 281 - Duplicated Preferences menu;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 283 - Unhandled event loop exception;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 284 - Generation of aliases images;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 287 - Limit crop values;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 288 - The L1b aliases values are not cropped;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 289 - Display the snapshot polarization on the selection dialog;
  => [CORRECTED]  SPR 292 - Add preference for hidding the texture layer.


  => [TODO] SPR: 307 - L1c Snapshots read from product are cutting part of the snapshot on latitude
  => [TODO] SPR: 313 - crop options in X and Y coordinates are not available for L1b displays
  => [TODO] SPR: 312 - Error message is not displayed if it is attempted to read an invalid product;

  => [SUSPENDED] SPR: 274 - Compatibility with JAVA 6 - The current version of the Eclipse RCP recommends the use of Java 1.5, so it is not recommend to perform the update to JAVA6.
					The tool may run with Java 6, but it is not recommended.