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 ## Important notes  
 In the code the variable k0 actually refers to the hyperparameter P in the manuscript(the value that appears in the exponent of B in the encoding procedure)
 
+The SeaBAM dataset, as specified in the manuscripts contains 919 data points, however, due to some data missing in some samples only 793 were used in the experiments.
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 ## Notes on the used datasets.
 The SeaBAM dataset was is publicly available at https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov/seabam/pub/maritorena_oreilly_schieber. In the website it is also possible to find further information regarding the dataset itself. For further details on the synthetic dataset and how it was generated please refer to GRSL/MERIS_dataset_generation.