The CoastWatch Utilities are designed to meet the needs of many different types of data users. The functionality is divided as follows:

Software functionality pie chart with four sections: Information, Data Processing, Visualization, and Registration

Information and Statistics: File contents, statistics computations (minimum, maximum, mean, standard deviation), access to global and variable attributes.
Data Processing: Data format conversions, compositing, generic math, data sampling.
Graphics and Visualization: Interactive visualization/analysis, batch image rendering, data coverage maps, ancillary graphics.
Registration and Navigation: Resampling of data from one projection to another, interactive creation of map projections, manual and automatic navigational correction, computation of solar and earth location angles.