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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)
+-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 dataset file seabam919.txt has been removed fromt he repository to avoid potential copyright issues. The code for the QSVR assumes that such file is present
+in the directoy Dataset. To run the code on the SeaBAM dataset download the txt file from the dataset website (see link in the following section) and put it in the Dataset folder.
+Finally, to use the code as it is it also necessary to remove all the header iformation in the tetx file and leave the numerical data values only. 
 
 ## 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.
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