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+## 0.1.0 - 2025/02/21 - First version of MAPIES 
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+Established the initial structure of MAPIES, providing a flexible and scalable framework for satellite systems data analysis. 
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+### Features 
+- Developed capabilities for handling and analyzing VIIRS and TROPOMI observations. 
+- Implemented reading, filtering, and processing of NetCDF files.
+- Applied customizable Quality Assurance (QA) filtering based on satellite-specific flags.
+- Added support for spatial regridding (regular and rotated) and geospatial cropping.
+- Optimized performance with multiprocessing techniques for large-scale data processing. 
+- Enabled statistical analysis, including temporal averaging and valid observations counting. 
+- Introduced 2D plotting functionalities to visualize processed data.  
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