Acronym List
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| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| 3ROX | Three Rivers Optical Exchange |
| 3S | Small Satellite System, Suite de Systeme SPOT, SPOT Successor System |
| A | Back to top |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| AATSR | Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer |
| ACCESS | Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science program |
| ACR | Active Cavity Radiometer |
| ACRIM | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor |
| ACRIMSAT | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite |
| ACRS/TLAS | Automated Conflict Resolution System/TDRSS Look Angle System |
| ACSI | American Customer Satisfaction Index |
| ACTS | Advanced Communication Technology Satellite |
| ADC | Affiliated Data Center |
| ADEO | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing System |
| ADM | Atmospherics Dynamics Mission |
| ADN | ASTER Data Network |
| ADRG | ARC-Digitized Raster Graphics |
| ADS40 | Airborne Digital Sensor 40 |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| ADURD | Archiving, Distribution and User Services Requirements Document |
| AEB | Agencia Espacial Brasileira |
| AEM-2 | Application Explorer Mission-2 |
| AERI | Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer |
| AERONET | Aerosol Robotic Network |
| AES | Atmospheric Environmental Service |
| AESICS | ASTER Emergency Scheduling Interface and Control System |
| AGI | Advanced Global Imager |
| AGS | Alaska Ground Station |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AHAP | Alaska High-Altitude aerial Photography |
| AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| AIMs | Africover Interpretation and Mapping System |
| AIMS | Airborne Integrated Mapping System |
| AIR | Airborne Imaging Radar |
| AirMISR | Airborne Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| AIRSAR | Aircraft Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ALEXIS | Array of Low Energy X-Ray Imaging Sensors |
| ALI | Advanced Land Imager |
| ALOS | Advanced Land Observation Satellite |
| ALS | Aerial (Airborne) Laser Scanning |
| ALTM | Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper |
| ALTMS | Airborne Lidar Topographic Mapping System |
| AM | Automated Mapping |
| AM/FM | Automated Mapping/Facilities Management |
| AMI SAR | Active Microwave Imager Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| AMPR | Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer |
| AMPS | Automatic Mapping and Planning System |
| AMR | Altimetry Microwave Radiometer |
| AMRIR | Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| AMSD | Adjusted Mapping Support Data |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| AMSR-CU | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Control Unit |
| AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS |
| AMSR-SU | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Sensor Unit |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
| AMSU-A1 | AMSU-A1 Module - Receives V and W Band Frequencies on Channels 3-15 |
| AMSU-A2 | AMSU-A2 Module - Receives K and Ka Band Frequencies on Channels 1 & 2 |
| AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (Earlier MHS, Became HSB) |
| AMTS | Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder |
| ANGe | Archive Next Generation |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| AO | Announcement of Opportunity |
| AOIPS | Atmospheric and Oceanographic Image Processing System |
| AOL | Airborne Oceanographic Lidar |
| AOS | ASTER Operation Segment |
| AOSP | Advanced On-Board Signal Processor |
| APAN | Asia Pacific Area Network |
| APAR | Absorbed Photosynthetic Active Radiation |
| APCM | Aerial Photography Contract Management System |
| API | Application programming interface |
| APID | Application Process Identifier |
| APT | Automatic Picture Transmission |
| AQT | Association Québecoise de Télédétection |
| ARA | Atmospheric Radiation Analysis |
| ARB | 48" Lidar Aerosol Reserach Branch |
| ARC | Ames Research Center |
| ARESE | ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement) Enhanced Shortwave Experiment |
| ARGOS | Argos Data Collection and Position Location System |
| ARIN | American Registry of Internet Names |
| ARISTOTELES | Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing The Earths' field from Low Earth orbiting Satellite |
| ARMSAT | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Satellite |
| ARVI | Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index |
| AS | Access Subgroup (Part of CEOS-WGISS) |
| ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ASAS | Advanced Solid-State Array Spectrometer |
| ASC | Agence Spatiale Canadienne |
| ASCA | Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics |
| ASCAT | Advanced Scatterometer |
| ASCIE | American Standard Code for Information Exchange |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASDC | Atmospheric Science Data Center (Langley Research Center) |
| ASF | Alaska Satellite Facility |
| ASF SDC | Alaska Satellite Facility SAR Data Center (DAAC) |
| ASFUWG | ASF User Working Group |
| ASI | Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency) |
| ASM | Acquisition Strategy Meeting |
| ASP | Alaska SAR Processor |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| ASTGTM | ASTER Global DEM |
| ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
| ATDRSS | Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
| ATES | Alcatel Espace Systems |
| ATLAS | Advanced Thermal and Land Applications Sensor |
| ATLID | ATmospheric LIDar |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATMOS | Atmospheric Observations Satellite (Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy) |
| ATMS | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder |
| ATOST | Atlantic - THORpex Observing System Test |
| ATR1 | Automatic Target Recognition Module (Leica) |
| ATS | Advanced Technology Satellite |
| ATSR | Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ESA ERS) |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer |
| AVHRR GAC | AVHRR Global Coverage Area |
| AVHRR LAC | AVHRR Local Area Coverage |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| AVIS | Airborne Vegetation Index Sensor |
| AVNIR | Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer |
| AWARE |
A tool for monitoring and forecasting Available WAter REsource in
mountain environment
|
| AWiFS | Advanced Wide Field Sensor |
| AWOTS | Automated Wallops Orbital Tracking Station |
| B | Back to top |
| bbFTS | BaBar File Transfer Protocol |
| BGP | Boundary Gateway Protocol |
| BIH | Bureau International de l’Heure |
| BIPM | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures |
| BNSC | British National Space Centre (UK) |
| BRDF | Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| BUFR | Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data |
| BWC | Bandwidth Compression |
| BWE | Bandwidth Expansion |
| C | Back to top |
| C5/6 | Collection 5/6 MODIS data |
| C-MARE | Central Mediterranean Aerosol and Radiation Experiment |
| C-STAR | Conically Scanning Two-Look Airborne Radiometer |
| CADU | Channel Access Data Units |
| CAL WG | Calibration Working Group |
| CAL/VAL | Calibration/Validation |
| CALIOP | Cloud-Aerosol LIdar and with Orthogonal Polarization |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
| CalREN | California Research and Education Network |
| CALS | Cloud and Aerosol Lidar System |
| CAMEX | Convection and Moisture Experiment |
| CBERS | China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Program |
| CCB | Configuration Control Board |
| CCD | Charged Coupled Device |
| CCRS | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing |
| CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
| CDAS | Command and Data Acquisition Station |
| CDB | Command Data Block |
| CDDIS | Crustal Dynamics Data Information System |
| CDF | Common Data Format |
| CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center (DOE/ORNL) |
| CDMS | Cryospheric Data Management System (NSIDC) |
| CDR | Critical Design Reviews |
| CDRC | CIESIN Data and Research Center |
| CEES | Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Research |
| CEMSCS | Central Environmental Monitoring Satellite Computer System (NOAA) |
| CEMSDS | Central Environmental Satellite Data System |
| CEO | European Centre for Earth Observation |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
| CEOSWGD/CS | CEOS Working Group on Data, Catalog Subgroup |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| CERR | Critical Events Readiness Review |
| CESA | Conical Earth Sensor Assembly |
| CESBIO | Centre d’ Études Spatiales de la Biosphère (France) |
| CESDIS | Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (GSFC) |
| CFC | Chlorofluorocarbon |
| CFI | Claes Fornell International |
| CIESIN | Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
| CINTEX | CEOS Catalogue Interoperability Experiment |
| CIR | Color Infrared |
| CIRS | Composition Infrared Spectrometer |
| CIS | Cryogenic Interferometer Spectrometer |
| CIWG | Catalog Interoperability Working Group |
| CL | Command Language |
| CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |
| CLAMS | Cheasapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites |
| CLC | CORINE Land Cover |
| CLCW | Command Link Control Word |
| CM | Configuration Management |
| CMG | Climate modeling grid |
| CMIS | Conical Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder |
| CMO | Configuration Management Office |
| CMR | Common Metadata Repository |
| CNES | Centre National d’Études Spatiales (France) |
| CNR | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) |
| CO | Contracting Officer |
| COARE | Continental Ocean-Atmosphere Regional Experiment |
| CODMAC | Committee on Data Management, Archiving, and Computing |
| COMMGR | Communications Manager |
| CONAE | Comision National de Actividades Espaciales |
| CONUS | Conterminous United States |
| CORINE | Coordination of Information on Environment |
| COS | Constellation Operations System |
| COSMIC | Computer Software Management and Information Center (NASA) |
| COSMO/SkyMed | Constellation of Small satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation |
| COSPAR | Congress for Space Research |
| COTR | Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The Shelf |
| CPP | Cloud Photopolarimeter |
| CPR | Cloud Profiling Radar |
| CR | Correlation Radiometer |
| CrIMSS | Cross-track Infrared and Advanced Technology Microwave Sounders |
| CrIS | Cross-track Infrared Sounder |
| CRISTA/SPAS | Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere/ Shuttle Pallet Satellite |
| CRP | Command Relay Processor |
| CRSS | Canadian Remote Sensing Society |
| CRYSYS | Cryospheric System |
| CSA | Canadian Space Agency |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia) |
| CSLC | California Space Launch Complex |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier-Sense Multiple-Access With Collision Detection |
| CTGNSS | Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System |
| CV | Cube Visualization |
| CVA | Change Vector Analysis |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner (Nimbus-7) |
| D | Back to top |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DADS | Data Archive and Distribution System |
| DAF | Data Archive Facility |
| DAIS-1 | Digital Airborne Imagery System |
| DAR | Data Acquisition Request |
| DAS | Data Analysis Subsystem |
| DAS | Detailed Activity Schedule |
| DCN | Document Change Notice |
| DCS | Data Collection System |
| DDL | Direct Downlink |
| DEDS | DAAC to EDOS Data Set |
| DEL | Data Evaluation Laboratory (GSFC) |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| DEM-G | Digital Elevation Model - Graphic (coordinates) |
| DEM-P | Digital Elevation Model - Planar (coordinates) |
| DEMEX | Alternate name for the ASTER GDEM Explorer |
| DFCD | Data Format Control Document |
| DGDF | Digital Geospatial Data Files |
| DGPS | Differential Global Positioning System; Differential Global Positioning Satellite |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHF | Data Handling Facility |
| DIAL | Differential Absorption Lidar |
| DIF | Directory Interchange Format |
| difSAR | Differential SAR |
| DIGCAT | Digital Catalogue |
| DIGEST | Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard |
| DISC | Data and Information Services Center |
| DLG | Digital Line Graph |
| DLR | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Agency) |
| DLS | Dynamic Limb Sounder |
| DMO | DEM and Orthorectified |
| DMR | Detailed Mission Requirements |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| DOC | Department of Commerce |
| DoD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
| DOPLID | Doppler Lidar |
| DOQ | Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle |
| DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite |
| DOS | Department of State |
| DPR | Dual Precipitation Radar |
| DR | Decommissioning Review |
| DRG | Digital Raster Graphic |
| DRR | Disposal Readiness Review |
| DRSS | Data Relay Satellite System |
| DSCOVR | Deep Change Observation Mission |
| DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data |
| DTM | Digital Terrain Model |
| DUE | DAAC Unique Extension |
| DWL | Doppler Wind Lidar |
| DWS | Doppler Wind Sensor |
| E | Back to top |
| E-ISAT | EOSDIS Internet Security Assessment Team |
| E-LIDAR | Experimental Lidar |
| EARLSeL | European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories |
| EarthCARE | Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer |
| EAS | Electrical Accommodation Subsystem (Terra AM-1) |
| EBnet | EOSDIS Backbone network |
| EBS | EOS Broadcast Stations |
| EC | European Community |
| ECA | Earth Central Angle |
| ECC | Earthdata Code Collaborative |
| ECE | Earthdata Collaboration Environment |
| ECHO | EOS Clearing House |
| ECMP | ECS Configuration Management Plan |
| ECMWF | European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting |
| ECOM | EOSDIS Communications System |
| ECRB | EOS Configuration Review Board |
| ECRB | EMOS Configuration Review Board |
| ECRS | ESDIS Consolidated Requirements System |
| ECS | EOSDIS Core System |
| ECSS | EOS Common Spacecraft Specification |
| ECSTVP | ECS Test and Verification Procedures |
| ECSVDB | ECS Verification Database |
| ECT | EOS Compatibility Test |
| ED50 | European Datum 1950 |
| EDC | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center (USGS) |
| EDF | ECS Development Facility |
| EDG | EOS Data Gateway (V0 Client – Replacement of B0SOT) |
| EDGRS | Earth Data Gathering and Reporting System |
| EDHS | ECS Data Handling System |
| EDMA | ESDIS Data Model Analysis |
| EDOCS | EOS Data Operations and Communications System |
| EDOS | EOS Data and Operations System |
| EDS | Expedited Data Sets |
| EDU | EDOS Data Unit |
| EE | Earth Explorer |
| EECF | Earthnet ERS-1 Central Facility |
| EEID | EOSDIS External Interface Document |
| EER | External Engineering Review |
| EETS | EOS Electronic Transfer System |
| EGS | EOS Ground Station |
| EGT | EOSDIS Ground Terminal |
| EGTS | EOS Ground Test System |
| EIN | ECS Identification Number |
| EIONET | European Environment Information and Observation Network |
| EIT | EOSDIS Integration Team |
| EITSO | ESDIS Information Technology Security Official |
| ELANOR | Earth Limb And Nadir Operational Retrieval |
| ELV | Expendable Launch Vehicle |
| EMACC | EOS Multiple Applications Control Center |
| EMD | EOSDIS Core System Maintenance and Development |
| EME | ECS Maintenance Environment |
| EMIS | EDOS Management Information System |
| EMLS | EOS Microwave Limb Sounder |
| EMOC | EOSDIS Mission Operations Center |
| EMOS | EOS Mission Operations System |
| EMOWG | EOS Mission Operations Working Group |
| EMS | ESDIS Metrics System |
| EMSn | EOS Mission Support network |
| ENMC | Enterprise Network Management Center |
| ENSO | El Nino Southern Oscillation |
| ENVISAT | Environmental Satellite |
| EO | Earth Observation |
| EO-1 | Earth Orbiter-1 |
| EO-ICWG | Earth Observations International Coordination Working Group |
| EOC | EOS Operations Center |
| EOCC | EOS Operations and Control Center |
| EOIS | Earth Observation Information System |
| EOP | EDOS Operation Protocol |
| EOPS | ERBE Operational Processing System (LaRC) |
| EORC | Earth Observation Research Center |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOS AERO | EOS Aerosol Mission |
| EOS ALT | EOS Altimetry Mission |
| EOS AM | Earth Observing System AM or morning crossing (Terra satellite) |
| EOS CHEM | EOS Chemistry Mission |
| EOS COLOR | EOS Color Mission |
| EOS PM | Earth Observing System PM or afternoon crossing (Aqua satellite) |
| EOS-G | Earth Observing System - Goddard |
| EOSAT | Earth Observing Satellite Company |
| EOSC | EOS Operations Support Capability |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observation System Data and Information System |
| EOSFDS | EOS Flight Data System |
| EOSIWG | EOS Investigator Working Group |
| EOSP | Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter |
| EOSPSO | EOS Project Science Office |
| EOSSALT | Earth Observing Solid-State Radar Altimeter |
| EOSSMS | EOS Space Measurement System |
| EOSSRP | EOS Scientific Research Program |
| EOT | EDOS Operational Timeline |
| EOWG | ESDIS Operations Working Group |
| EP | Earth Probe |
| EPDS | EMOS Production Data Set |
| EPG | ECS Process Improvement Group |
| EPGN | EOS Polar Ground Network |
| EPGS | EOS Polar Ground Station |
| EPGSS | Earth Observing Polar Ground Station Services |
| EPOP | European Polar-Orbiting Platform |
| EPS | EUMETSAT Polar System |
| EPTOMS | Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| ER-2 | Earth Resources NASA research aircraft |
| ERAST | Experimental Research Aircraft Sensor Technology Program |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ERDAS | Earth Resources Data Analysis System |
| ERDET | ESDIS Requirements Database Engineering Team |
| ERG | EOSDIS Review Group |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
| ERPS | EOS Real-Time Processing System |
| ERS-1 | Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1 |
| ERSAR | Earth Resources Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ERSDAC | Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center |
| ERTS-1 | Earth Resources Technology Satellite –1 |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESAD | Earth Science and Applications Data System |
| ESDD | Earth Science Data Directory |
| ESDIS | Earth Science Data and Information System |
| ESDR | Earth Science Data Record |
| ESDSWG | Earth Science Data System Working Group |
| ESDT | Earth Science Data Type |
| ESE | Earth Sciences Enterprise |
| ESH | EDOS Service Header |
| ESIC | Earth Science Information Center |
| ESID | EOSDIS Systems Interface Document |
| ESIP | Federation of Earth Science Information Partners |
| ESIPS | EOSDIS Science Investigator-Led Processing System |
| ESMES | EOS System Management and Engineering Site |
| ESMO | Earth Science Mission Operations |
| ESMOS | Earth Science Mission Operation System |
| ESMP | ECS Schedule Management Plan |
| ESMR | Electronically Scanning Microwave Radiometer |
| ESN | EOSDIS Science Network (ECS) (Replaced By Ebnet) |
| ESO | ESDIS Standards Office |
| ESOC | EOSDIS System and Operations Concept (Document) |
| ESOD | Earth Science On-Line Directory |
| ESOO | ESDIS Science Operations Office |
| ESQL | Earth Science Query Language |
| ESRIN | European Space Research Institute (ESA) |
| ESSAAC | Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee |
| ESSC | Earth System Sciences Committee |
| ESSE | EDOS System Support Environment |
| ESSI | Earth and Space Science Informatics |
| ESSn | EOS Science Support network |
| ESSO | Earth Science Support Office |
| ESSP | Earth Science Systems Program |
| ESST | Earth Science Search Tool |
| ESTB | EGNOS System Test Bed |
| ESTEC | European Space Research and Space Technology Centre (ESA) |
| ESTOL | EOS Standard Text and Operation Language |
| ETM+ | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (Landsat 7) |
| ETRS89 | European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 |
| ETS | EOS Test System |
| ETSF | EOSDIS Test System Facility |
| ETTS | ECS Trouble Ticketing System |
| EUMETSAT | European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| EUMS | ESDIS User Model Scenario |
| EVR | ECS Verification Report |
| F | Back to top |
| FA | Formulation Agreement |
| FAD | Formulation Authorization Document |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FCCSET | Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology |
| FCDAS | Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station |
| FDF | Flight Dynamics Facility |
| FDS | Flight Dynamics System |
| FE | Fast Ethernet |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FEWS | Famine Early Warning System |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| FIFE | First ISLSCP Field Experiment |
| FIRE | First ISCCP (International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project) Regional Experiment |
| FIRMS | Fire Information for Resource Management System |
| FM-1 | Flight Model 1 (NASA EOS MODIS) |
| FOIA | Freedom Of Information Act |
| FORTE | Fast On-Orbit Recording of Transient Events |
| FORTRAN | FORmula TRANslation |
| FOS | Flight Operations Segment (ECS) |
| FOT | Flight Operations Team (ECS) |
| FOV | Field of View |
| FPAR | Fraction of photosynthetically active radiation |
| FRGP | Front Range GigaPOP |
| FRR | Flight Readiness Review |
| FSA | Federal Space Agency (Russia) |
| FST | Field Support Terminal |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| G | Back to top |
| G3OS | Global Terrestrial Observing System |
| GAC | Global Area Coverage (AVHRR) |
| GALILEO | Informal name of GNSS |
| GATES | Geostationary Advanced Technology Environmental System |
| GB | gigabyte (109) |
| GBAD | Ground Based Attitude Determination |
| gbps | Giga bits per second |
| GCC | Goddard Communications Control |
| GCDC | Global Change Data Center |
| GCDIS | Global Change Data and Information System |
| GCLDC | Global Change Landsat Data Collection |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory |
| GCOM | Global Change Observation Mission |
| GCPs | Ground Control Points |
| GDAAC | Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center |
| GDAO | Goddard [Space Flight Center] Data Assimilation Office |
| GDAS | NCEP 1-Degree Global Data Assimilation Model |
| GDEM | Global Digital Elevation Model |
| GDEx | Global Data Explorer |
| GDR | Geophysical Data Record (JPL) |
| GDS | Ground Data System |
| GDS IMS | Ground Data System Information Management System |
| GDT | Global DIgital Topography |
| GEBA | Global Energy Budget Archive |
| GEMI | Global Environment Monitoring MSAVI |
| GENESIS | Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems |
| GEO | Geosynchronous Earth Orbit |
| GEOS | Goddard Earth Observing System |
| GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
| Geosat | Naval Geodetic Satellite |
| GeoTIFF | Geographic Tagged Image File Format |
| GeoVIS | Geographic Vector Interpretation System (Africover) |
| GERIS | Geophysical Environmental Research Imaging Spectrometer |
| GES | Goddard Earth Sciences |
| GES DISC | GSFC Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center |
| GESSEP | GSFC Earth Space Science Education Project |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water cycle Experiment |
| GFCC | Global Forest Cover Change |
| GFS | Global Forecast System |
| GGI | GPS Geoscience Instrument |
| GHRC | Global Hydrology Resource Center |
| GIBS | Global Imagery Browse Services |
| GIS | Geographical Information System |
| GISIG | Geographical Information Systems International Group |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| GLA | Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres |
| GLAS | Geoscience Laser Altimeter System |
| GLAST | Gamma Ray Large-Area Space Telescope |
| GLCC | Global Land Cover Characterization |
| GLCN | Global Land Cover Network |
| GLCTS | Global Land Cover Test Sites |
| GLI | Global Imager (Japan, ADEOS) |
| GLIS | Global Land Information System |
| GLL | Galileo |
| GLM | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
| GLOBE | Global Change Observing Mission |
| GLONASS | Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (Russia) |
| GLOSS | Global Observation Surveillance System |
| GloVIS | Global Visualizer |
| GLRS | Geoscience Laser Ranging System |
| GLRS-A | Geoscience Laser Ranging System Altimeter |
| GLRS-R | Geoscience Laser Ranging System Ranger |
| GMAO | Global Modeling and Assimilation Office |
| GML | Geography Markup Language |
| GMS | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
| GMST | Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GMU | George Mason University |
| GN | Ground Network |
| GN&C | Guidance, Navigation and Control |
| GN&CS | Guidance, Navigation, and Control Subsystem (Terra AM-1) |
| GNS | GEOnet Names Server |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GOCE | Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GOFC | Global Observations of Forest Cover (IGOS) |
| GOLD | Global Observation of Land Cover Dynamics |
| GOME | Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
| GOMI | Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
| GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars |
| GOMR | Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer |
| GOMS | Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellites |
| GOPM | Goddard Orbital Parameters Message |
| GOS | Geomagnetic Observing System |
| GPD | Goddard Policy Directive (formerly called GMI) |
| GPG | Goddard Procedures and Guidelines |
| GPI | Global Precipitation Index |
| GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement |
| GPP | Gross Primary Productivity |
| GPR | Ground Penetrating Radar |
| GPROF | Goddard PRO Filing algorithm for instantaneous rain retrieval |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPSDIS | Global Positioning System Data Information System (JPL) |
| GPSDR | Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver |
| GPSOS | Global Positioning Sensor Occultation System |
| GPSR | Global Positioning Satellite Receiver |
| GPSSS | Global Positioning System Sustaining Support |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment |
| GRASS | Geographic Resource Analysis Support System |
| GRDC | Global Runoff Data Center |
| GRE | Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| GridFTP | Grid File Transfer Protocol |
| GRS 80 | Geodetic Reference System of 1980 |
| GRT | Ground Receipt Time |
| GS | [EOS] Ground System |
| GSDI | Global Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| GSDM | Global Spatial Data Model |
| GSDS | Global Spatial Data System |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GSIF | Ground Station Interface Facility |
| GSIP | Ground Station Interface Processor |
| GSLV | Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communication |
| GTDS | Goddard Trajectory Determination System |
| GTE | Global Tropospheric Experiment |
| GTOPO30 | A global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds |
| GTWAY | Gateway [for Version 0 interoperability] |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GURP | Goddard Uncosted Reduction Project |
| GV | Ground Validation |
| GW | Gateway |
| H | Back to top |
| HALOE | Halogen Occultation Experiment |
| HCR | HDF EOS Configuration Record |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HDF-EOS | Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System |
| HDDS | Hazards Data Distribution System |
| HEG | HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF Conversion Tool |
| HEO | High Earth Orbit |
| HEW | HDF-EOS WEB-based subsetter |
| HGML | Hyper Graphics Markup Language (Graphical Alternative to HTML) |
| HIMSS | High-Resolution Microwave Spectrometer Sounder (Replaced By MIMR) |
| HIRDLS | High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| HIRIS | High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| HIRRLS | High-Resolution Research Limb Sounder |
| HIRS | High-Resolution Infrared Sounder |
| HIS | High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder |
| HPGN | High-Precision Geodetic Network |
| HRDFEP | High Rate Demodulator Front End Processor |
| HRG | High-Resolution Geometry (SPOT) |
| HRPT | High-Resolution Picture Transmission (AVHRR) |
| HRV | Haute Résolution dans le Visible (SPOT) |
| HRVIR | High Resolution Visible Infrared (scanner) |
| HSB | Humidity Sounder - Brazil (Derivative of AMSU-B, Replacing MHS) |
| HSI | Hue, Saturation, Intensity – Hyperspectral Imaging Instrument |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transport Protocol |
| HYDICE | Hyperspectral Digital Imagery Collection Experiment |
| HYMAP | Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging |
| I | Back to top |
| I&CLC2000 | Image and CORINE Land Cover 2000 |
| I-SIPS | ICESat Science Investigator-led Processing System |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| IBM | International Business Machines |
| ICARTT | International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation |
| ICC | Instrument Control Center |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| ICESat | Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite |
| ICF | Instrument Control Facility (ECS) |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IELV | Intermediate Expendable Launch Vehicle |
| IEOS | International Earth Observing System |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation Service |
| IFOV | Instantaneous Field of View |
| IFREMER | Instiut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer |
| IFSARE | Inter-ferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Elevation |
| IGAC | International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Program of the IGBP |
| IGAP | International Global Aerosol Program |
| IGARSS | IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
| IGBP | International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme |
| IGMP-DIS |
International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme – Data and
Information System
|
| IGMP | Internet Group Multicast Protocol |
| IGN | International Geodetic Network |
| IGOS | Integrated Global Observing Strategy |
| IGS | ICEsat Ground System |
| IGST | ICESat Ground System Test |
| IKAR-N | scanning microwave radiometer system |
| IKAR-P | nadir microwave radiometer |
| ILAS | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer |
| IMG | Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases |
| IMOC | ICESat Mission Operations Center |
| IMS | Information Management System |
| INPE | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brasil) |
| InSAR | Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| INSAT | Indian National Satellite |
| INSPIRE | Infrastructure of Spatial Information in the European Community |
| Intelsat | International Telecommunications Satellite |
| IOC | ICESat Orbit Control Software |
| IONET | Internet Protocol Operational Network |
| IOT | Instrument Operations Team |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPA | Inter-Project Agreement |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPD | Information Processing Division (GSFC) |
| IPNOC | Internet Protocol Network Operations Center |
| IPOC | International Partner Operations Center |
| IPOMS | International Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Committee |
| IR | Infrared |
| IR | Interim Release |
| IR&D | Independent Research and Development |
| IR-RAD | Infrared Radiometer |
| IRAD | Independent Research And Development |
| IRCD | Interface Requirements Control Document |
| IRD | Interface Requirements Document |
| IRTS | Infrared Temperature Sounder |
| ISAMS | Improved Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
| ISAS | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| ISDN | Integrated Systems Digital Network |
| ISF | Instrument Support Facility |
| ISIPS | ICEsat Science Investigator-Led Processing System |
| ISIR | Infrared Spectral Imaging Radiometer |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ISPRS | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Number |
| IST | Instrument Support Terminal |
| ITIR | Intermediate Thermal Infrared Radiometer |
| ITRF | International Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| ITRS | International Terrestrial Rotation Service |
| IWG | Investigator Working Group |
| IWGDD | Interagency Working Group on Digital Data |
| IWGDMGC | Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change |
| J | Back to top |
| JAVA | Joint Academic Virtual Application |
| JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| JEOC | Japan's Earth Observation Center |
| JEOS | Japanese Earth Observing System |
| JERS-1 | Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1 |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| JMA | Japan Meteorological Agency |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JPLAIRSAR | JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| JPOP | Japanese Polar-Orbiting Platform |
| JPSS | Joint Polar Satellite System |
| JRC | Joint Research Centre (Italy) |
| JRC CEO | European Commission Joint Research Centre |
| JSC | Johnson Space Center |
| K | Back to top |
| K | Kelvin |
| KARI | Korea Aerospace Research Institute |
| KB | kilobyte (103) |
| KDP | Key Decision Point |
| KML | Keyhole Markup Language |
| KNMI | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| KOMPSAT | Korea Multipurpose Satellite |
| KSC | Kennedy Space Center |
| L | Back to top |
| L0 | Level 0 (zero) |
| L0R | Level 0 Release |
| L1 | Level 1 |
| L1G | Level 1 Geometrically Corrected |
| L1R | Level 1 Radiometrically Corrected |
| L2 | Level 2 |
| L3 | Level 3 |
| L4 | Level 4 |
| LAADS | Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System |
| LAC | Local Area Coverage |
| LADAR | Laser Detection and Ranging |
| LAGEOS | Laser Geodynamics Satellite |
| LAI | Leaf area index |
| LAMP | Low Altitude Mapping Photogrammetry |
| LAMPS | Laser-scan Automated Map Production System |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LANCE | Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (Earth Observing System) |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Lab |
| Landsat | Land Remote-Sensing Satellite |
| LaRC ASDC | Langley Research Center Atmospheric Science Data Center |
| LaRCNET | Langley Research Center Network |
| LARSE | Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology |
| LASE | Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
| Laser | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LaTIS | Langley Research Center's TRMM Information System |
| LBS | Location-Based Services |
| LCCS | Land Cover Classification System |
| LDHF | Landsat-7 Data Handling Facility |
| LDOPE | Land Data Operational Product Evaluation |
| LDOS | Landsat Data and Operations System |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| LERTS | Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetedion Spatiale |
| LIDAR | LIght Detection And Ranging instrument |
| LIDQA | Landsat Image Data Quality and Analysis |
| LIGHTSAR | Lightweight Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| LIMS | Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging Sensor |
| LITE | Lidar-in-space Technology Experiment |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| LMD | Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique |
| LOGSWG | Landsat Operations Ground Segment Working Group |
| LOS | Loss Of Signal |
| LP DAAC | Land Processes DAAC |
| LR | Laser Retroreflector |
| LRPT | Low-Resolution Picture Transmission |
| LRR | Launch Readiness Review |
| LRRL | Low Rate Return Link |
| LRS | Landsat Recorder System |
| LSPIM | Land-Surface Processes and Interactions Mission |
| LSR | Land Surface Reflectance |
| LTA | Long Term Archive |
| LUT | Look Up Table |
| LV | Launch Vehicle |
| LW | Longwave radiation |
| LWIR | Long-Wave Infrared (spectral region) |
| LZP | Level Zero Processing |
| LZPF | Level Zero Processing Facility |
| LZPS | Level Zero Processing System |
| LZW | Lempel Ziv Welch |
| M | Back to top |
| MAGSAT | Magnetic Field (Magnetometer) Satellite |
| ManLan | Manhattan Landing (high performance exchange point in New York City) |
| MAP | Map Accuracy Programme (Africover) |
| MAPS | Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites |
| MAPSAT | Mapping Satellite |
| MAS | MODIS Airborne Simulator |
| MASTER | MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator |
| Matlab | Matrix laboratory |
| MAX | Mid-Atlantic Crossroads |
| MB | megabyte |
| mb | millibar |
| MBLA | Multi-Beam Laser Altimeter |
| MCIP | Mission Critical IP |
| MCP | Meteorological Communications Package |
| MCR | Mission Concept Review |
| MCST | MODIS Characterization Support Team (EOS) |
| MDR | Mission Definition Review |
| MEaSUREs | Making Earth System data records for Use in Research Environments |
| MEBS | MODIS Emergency Backup System (EOS) |
| MEIS | Multispectral Electrooptical Imaging Sensor |
| MELV | Medium Expendable Launch Vehicle |
| MEO | Middle Earth Orbit (Satellite) |
| MERES | Mineral and Energy Resources Exploration Satellite (Japan) |
| MERIS | Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (ESA Envisat) |
| MESSR | Multispectrum Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer |
| METEOSAT | Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA) |
| METI | Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (Formerly Known As MITI) |
| METOP | Meteorological Operational Weather Satellite |
| METSAT | Meteorological Satellite |
| METSOAT | European Weather Satellite |
| MFOV | Medium Field of View |
| MGRS | Military Grid Reference System |
| MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder (EOS) |
| MHz | MegaHertz |
| MIAS | Multispectral Image Analysis System |
| MIDAS | Multispectral Interactive Data Analysis System |
| MIMR | Multifrequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer |
| MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding |
| MIR | Multispectral Imaging Radiometer |
| MIRAS | Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (ESA) |
| MIRIAM/DOPI | Mir Infrared Atmospheric Measurements/Double Pendulum Interferometer |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (EOS) |
| MITI | Ministry of International Trade and Industry |
| MIVIS | Multispectral Infrared and Visible Imaging Spectrometer |
| MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder |
| MMR | Modular Multi-Band Radiometer |
| MO&DSD | Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate (GSFC Code 500) |
| MOA | Memorandum Of Agreement |
| MOC | Mission Operations Center |
| MODAPS | MODIS Adaptive Processing System |
| MODExtract | MODIS Data Pool Extraction Tool |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (EOS) |
| MODIS-N | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer - Nadir |
| MODLAND | MODIS Land Discipline Group (EOS) |
| MODS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MOMS | Modular Optoelectric Multispectral Scanner |
| MOP | Meteosat Operational Programme |
| MOPITT | Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere |
| MOS | Marine Observation Satellite |
| MOSPF | Multicast Open Shortest Path First |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MP-MP | Multipoint-Multipoint Systems |
| MPPP | Multi-Link Point-to-Point Protocol |
| MPRD | Modified Proportional Radial Displacement |
| MPS | Mission Planning System (ASF) |
| mrad | microradians |
| MRIR | Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer (Nimbus) |
| MRR | Mission Readiness Review |
| MrSID | Multiresolution Seamless Image Database |
| MRT | MODIS Reprojection Tool |
| MRTP | Mission Readiness Test Plans |
| MRTSwatch | MODIS Reprojection Tool for Swath |
| MRTWeb | MODIS Reprojection Tool for the Web |
| ms | millisecond |
| MSAS | MTSAT Satellite-Based Augmentation Satellite |
| MSAVI | Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index |
| MSC | Multispectral Camera |
| MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation (ESA) |
| MSL | Mean Sea Level |
| MSMR | Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer |
| MSR | Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| MSS | Multi-Spectral Scanner (Landsat 1-5) |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
| MSU-SK | Multispectral Optical Scanner |
| MTF | Modulation Transfer Function |
| MTS | Meteoroid Technology Satellite (NASA) |
| MTSAT | Multi-functional Transport Satellite (Japan) |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Recover |
| MTTRS | Mean Time To Restore Service |
| N | Back to top |
| NAALSED | North American ASTER Land Surface Emissivity Database |
| NACP | North American Carbon Program |
| NAD | North American Datum |
| NAL | National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan |
| NALC | North American Land Characterization |
| NAM | NASA Advisory Manager |
| NAPP | National Aerial Photography Program |
| NARA | National Archives and Records Administration |
| NARSA | National Advanced Remote Sensing Applications Program |
| NARSTO | North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
| NAS | NASA Advisory Council |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASCOM | NASA Communications Network |
| NASCOP | NASA Communications Operating Procedures |
| NASDA | National Space Development Agency (Japan) |
| NASIRC | NASA Automated Systems Incident Response Capabilities |
| NASTRAN | NASA Structural Analysis (Program) |
| NAVSTAR | Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging Global Positioning System |
| NBAR | Nadir BRDF Adjusted Reflectance |
| NBIS | Northern Biosphere Information System |
| NBSM | National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (China) |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCC | National Cartographic Centre (Iran) |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center (NOAA) |
| NCDS | NASA Climate Data System |
| NCEP | National Center for Environmental Prediction (NOAA) |
| NCEP AWC | National Center for Environmental Prediction Air Weather Center |
| NCF | NSSDC Computer Facility |
| NCGIA | National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputer Applications |
| NCSC | National Computer Security Center |
| NCSL | National Computer Systems Laboratory |
| NDCS | National Digital Cartographic Standards |
| NDMC | National Drought Mitigation Center |
| NDPR | NASA Defense Purchase Request |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NED | National Elevation Dataset |
| NEPP | NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging |
| NERC | National Environmental Research Centre (UK) |
| NESDD | NOAA Earth Science Data Directory |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NOAA) |
| NET | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| netCDF | Network Common Data Format |
| NewDISS | New Data and Information Systems and Services |
| NEWS | NOAA’s Earth Watch Service |
| NEXRAD | Next Generation Weather Radar |
| NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA); National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse |
| NGDF | National Geospatial Data Files |
| NGIX | Next Generation Internet Exchange |
| NGMA | National Geoscience Mapping Agency (Australia) |
| NGMBD | National Geologic Map Database (USGS) |
| NGT | NASA Ground Terminal |
| NGWIC | National Ground Water Information Center |
| NHAP | National High Altitude Photography |
| NIAC | NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts |
| NIC | NASA Information Center |
| NICMOS | Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer |
| NIMBUS | NASA Meteorological Satellites (1 through 7) |
| NIR | Near Infrared (spectral region) |
| NISE | Near Real-Time SSM/I EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent |
| NISN | NASA Integrated Services Network |
| NISS | NASA Institutional Support Systems |
| NITRD | Networking and Information Technology Research and Development |
| NIX | NASA Image Exchange |
| NLAPS | National Landsat Archive Production System (USGS) |
| NLCD | National Land Cover Dataset (USGS) |
| NLDC | NASA Landsat Data Collection |
| NLOS | Not Line of Sight |
| NMAS | National Map Accuracy Standards |
| NMC | National Meteorological Center (NOAA) |
| NMD | NASA Master Directory |
| NMI | NASA Management Instruction |
| NMOS | Network and Mission Operations Support (NASA Program) |
| NMOS | NASA Management and Operations Support |
| NMP | New Millenium Program |
| NNSS | Navy Navigational Satellite System |
| NO2 | Nitrogen Dioxide |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOAA SAA | NOAA Satellite Active Archive |
| NOARL | Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Lab |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| NODC | National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA) |
| NODS | NASA Ocean Data System |
| NODIS | NSSDC Online Data and Information Service |
| NOMC | Network Operations Management Center |
| NOSIE | NODC Ocean Science Information Exchange |
| NOSS | National Oceanic Satellite System |
| NOX | Northern Crossroads |
| NPAS | Network Planning and Analysis System |
| NPG | NASA Procedure and Guidelines |
| NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
| NPOP-1 | NASA Polar Orbiting Platform (One) |
| NPP | NPOESS Preparatory Project |
| NPR | NASA Procedural Requirements |
| NRA | NASA Research Announcement |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NRDN | NOAA Radar Data Network |
| NREN | National Research and Education Network |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| NRSA | National Remote Sensing Agency (India) |
| NRSC | National Remote Sensing Centre (UK) |
| NRSCC | National Remote Sensing Centre of China |
| NRT | Near Real-Time |
| NRTP | Near Real-Time Processor |
| NRTPE | Near Real-Time Processing Effort |
| NRTS | Near Real-Time System |
| NSAP | Network Services Access Point |
| NSAU | National Space Agency of Ukraine |
| NSC | Norwegian Space Centre |
| NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer |
| NSDS | NASA Software Documentation Standard |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
| NSM | Network Service Manager |
| NSN | NASA Science Network |
| NSP | Korean National Space Development Plan |
| NSpC | National Space Council |
| NSPD | National Space Policy Directive |
| NSR | NISN Service Request |
| NSRS | National Spatial Reference System (NOAA) |
| NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center |
| NSTC | National Space and Technology Council |
| NSTR | NASA Standard Tape Recorder |
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service |
| NTS | National Topographic Series (Canada); National Topographic System (Canada); Navigation Technology Satellite |
| NTTF | NASA Test and Training Facility |
| NVAP | NASA Water Vapor Project |
| NVCS | National Vegetation Classification Standard |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| NWS | National Weather Service (NOAA) |
| NWS-HRL | NWS - Hydrologic Research Laboratory |
| NWS-RFC | NWS - Regional Forecast Center |
| NWS-RFO | NWS - River Forecast Office |
| O | Back to top |
| O3 | Ozone |
| OA | Operations Agreement |
| OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
| OCDPS | Ocean Color Data Processing System |
| OCM | Ocean Colour Monitor |
| OCO | Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition; Optical Character Reader |
| OCTS | Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (Japan, ADEOS) |
| ODB | Orbit Determination Beacon |
| ODL | Object Description Language |
| ODS | One Day Schedule |
| OEC | Optical-Electronic Camera |
| OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
| OLS | Optical Line Scanner |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
| OMI | Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
| OMIS | Optical Multichannel Imaging Sensor (NPOESS) |
| OMPS | Ozone Mapper/Profiler Suite |
| ONVS | Ozone Near-real-time and Very-fast-delivery System |
| ORFEO | Optical and Radar Federated Earth Observation |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| ORR | Operational Readiness Review |
| OSC | Orbital Sciences Corporation |
| OSCAR | Online Satellite Catalogue and Request System (NOAA) |
| OSDPD | Office of Space Data Processing and Distribution (NOAA) |
| OSF | Observation Schedule File |
| OSMI | Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First (Routing Protocol) |
| OSTA | Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications |
| OSTM | Ocean Surface Topography Mission |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| <strong id="ed-acronym-p" "="">P | Back to top |
| PACOR | Packet Processor |
| PALSAR | Phased-Array L-band SAR (Japan) |
| PB | petabyte (1015) |
| PDR | Product Delivery Record |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PDS | Production Data Set |
| PE&RS | Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (journal) |
| PFAR | Post-Flight Assessment Review |
| PFM | Proto-Flight Model |
| PGE | Product Generation Exectuable |
| PGS | Product Generation System |
| PGS | Polar Ground System |
| PGS | Product Generation System |
| PHD | Polar HDF-EOS Data Imaging and Subsetting |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PIM | Protocol Independent Multicast |
| PIP | Premium Internet Protocol |
| PL | Public Law |
| PLAR | Post-Launch Assessment Review |
| PLDS | Pilot Land Data System |
| P-MP | Point-MultiPoint systems |
| PMR | Pressure-Modulated Radiometer |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| POAM | Polar Ozone and Aerosols Mission |
| POC | Point Of Contact |
| PO DAAC | Physical Oceanography Distribution Active Archive Center |
| POEM | Polar-Orbit Earth Observation Mission |
| POEMS | Positron Electron Magnet Spectrometer |
| POES | Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite |
| POGO | Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory |
| POLARIS | Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region In Summer |
| POLDER | Polarization and Directionality of Earth's Reflectances (CNES, ADEOS) |
| POLES | Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface |
| POP | Program Operating Plan |
| POS | Product Order Status |
| PP | Principal Point |
| PPR | Photopolarimeter Radiometer |
| PPS | Precipitation Processing System |
| PR | Precipitation Radar (TRMM) |
| PRARE | Precise Range and Range Rate Equipment |
| PRAREE | Precise Range and Range Rate Equipment - Extended |
| PRIRODA | Nature Instrument Model on Russian MIR Station |
| PRISM | Panchromatic Remote Sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (Japan); Processes Research by an Imaging Space Mission |
| PRR | Production Readiness Review |
| PSA | Product Specific Attributes |
| PSAT | Predicted Site Acquisition Table |
| PSD | Product Specification Document |
| PSLA | Project Service Level Agreement |
| PSLV | Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| PTH | Performance Test Host |
| PU | Processing Unit |
| PV | Precision Visuals |
| PVI | Perpendicular Vegetation Index |
| Q | Back to top |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QC | Quality Control |
| QOS | Quality of Service |
| QUASAR | Quality Assurance and Stability Reference |
| R | Back to top |
| RA | Radar Altimeter |
| RADAR | RAdio Direction And Ranging |
| RADARSAT | Radar Satellite |
| RAMP | Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Program |
| RAR | Real Aperture Radar |
| RASA | Russia Aviation-Space Agency |
| RASCAL | Raster Scanning Airborne Laser |
| RBD | Rate Buffered Data |
| RCIP | Real-Time Critical IP |
| RCSSMRS | Regional Center for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing |
| REYNSST | NCEP Reynolds Blended SST Weekly Product |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RFC | Request For Comment |
| RGB | Red-Green-Blue |
| RGS | Receiving Ground Station (ASF) |
| RINEX | Receiver Independent Exchange (GPS data format) |
| RIP | Router Information Protocol |
| RIS | Raster Image Set |
| RMS | Requirements Management System |
| RMSE | Root-Mean-Square Error |
| RNSS | Radio Navigation Satellite Service |
| ROA | Remotely Operated Aircraft |
| ROM | Rough Order of Magnitude |
| ROM | Read-Only Memory |
| ROSA | Radio Occultation for Sounding the Atmosphere |
| ROSHYDROMET | Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring |
| ROSIS | Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer |
| rpm | revolutions per minute |
| RQMT | Requirements Document |
| RSA | Russian Space Agency Rosaviakosmos |
| RSAC | Remote Sensing Applications Center |
| RSG | Remote Sensing Group (UAZ) |
| RSI | RADARSAT International |
| RSMAS | Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences |
| RSS | Remote Sensing Society (UK) |
| RST | Remote Science Terminal |
| RT | Real-Time |
| RTADS | Real-Time Attitude Determination System |
| RTCM | Radio Technical Commission for Maritime (format) |
| RTCP | Real-Time Control Protocol |
| RTCS | Real-Time Command Sequence |
| RTP | Real-Time Positioning |
| RTS | Real-Time System |
| RTSP | Real-Time Streaming Protocol |
| RTSS | Real-Time System Simulator |
| RTSW | Real Time Solar Wind |
| S | Back to top |
| S&R | Search and Rescue |
| S4PM | Simple, Scalable, Script-based, Science Processor for Measurements |
| S-GCOS | Space-Based Global Change Observation System |
| S-PDS | Session-based Production Data Sets |
| SAFIRE | Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere using Far Infrared Emission |
| SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
| SAM | Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
| SAP | Service Access Point |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SAR | System Acceptance Review |
| SARSAT | SAR Satellite |
| SAS-C | Scientific Applications Satellite - C |
| SASS | Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer System |
| SATC | Software Assurance Technology Center (GSFC) |
| SAVE | Southern African Validation of EOS |
| SAVI | Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index |
| SB-PDS | Session-Based Production Data Sets |
| SBUV | Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet |
| ScaLARS | Scanning Laser Altitude and Reflectance Sensor (Germany) |
| SCANSAR | Scanning Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SCANSCAT | Scatterometer (Dual Pencil-Beam), Advanced Scatterometer for Studies in Meteorology and Oceanography |
| SCAR-A | Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation - America |
| SCAR-B | Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation - Brazil |
| SCARAB | Scanner for the Radiation Budget |
| SCF | Science Computing Facility |
| SCIAMACHY | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography |
| SCP | Secure Copy |
| SDAC | Satellite Data Analysis Center |
| SDCS | SAR Data Catalog System |
| SDMP | Science Data Management Plan |
| SDOC | Science Data Operations Center |
| SDPF | Science Data Processing Facility |
| SDPS | Science Data Processing Segment (ECS) |
| SDPS | Science Data Processing System |
| SDR | System Definition Review |
| SDS | Scientific Data Set |
| SDSC | San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| SDSD | Satellite Data Services Division |
| SE&I | System Engineering and Integration |
| SE/RC | System Evolution/Release C (ECS) |
| SeaPAC | SeaWinds Project (JPL) |
| SEASAR | Sea Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SEASAT | Sea Satellite |
| SEASTAR | Spacecraft Flying SeaWiFS |
| SeaWiFS | Sea-Viewing Wide-Field Sensor |
| SeaWinds | Seawinds Scatterometer (for Flight on ADEOS II) |
| SEDAC | Socio-Economic Data and Applications Center |
| SEE | Sustaining Engineering Facility (EDOS Component) |
| SEEDS | Strategic Evolution of ESE Data Systems (formerly NewDISS) |
| SEF | Sustaining Engineering Facility (EDOS) |
| SELV | Small Expendable Launch Vehicle |
| SEM | Space Environment Monitor |
| SESPD | Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (ESA) |
| SFE | Science Formatting Equipment (Terra AM-1) |
| SFSI | Shortwave-Infrared Full Spectrum Imager (Canada) |
| SFTP | Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics - Iris |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SGS | Svalbard Ground Station (Norway) |
| SI | Spatial Information |
| SIASGE | Sistema Italo-Argentino de Satélites protects Gestión de Emergencias |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SIM | Spectral Irradiance Monitor |
| SIMBIOS | Sensor Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and Interdisciplinary Oceanic Studies |
| SIMIP | Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project |
| SIMMS | Scalable Integrated Multi-Mission Simulator |
| SIN | Sinusoidal |
| SIP | Standard Internet Protocol |
| SIPS | Science Investigator-led Processing System |
| SIR | System Integration Review |
| SIR-C | Shuttle Imaging Radar-C |
| SIR-C/X-SAR | Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band SAR |
| SIRS | Satellite Infrared Spectrometer |
| SIS | Spatial Information System |
| SISS | Software Implementation Support System |
| SIT | System Integration Test |
| SKS | Svalbard Kongsberg Ground Station |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SLAR | Side-Looking Airborne Radar |
| SLR | Satellite Laser Ranging |
| SMAP | Soil Moisture Active Passive |
| SMC | System Management Center |
| SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SMM | Solar Maximum Mission |
| SMMR | Scanning Multispectral Microwave Radiometer |
| SMOS | Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity |
| SMS | Structures and Mechanisms Subsystem (Terra AM-1) |
| SMS | Synchronous Meteorological Satellite |
| SMS/GOES | Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary |
| SMSR | Safety and Mission Success Review |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SN | Space Network |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNOW-I | Search 'N Order Web Interface |
| SNPP | Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SNSB | Swedish National Space Board |
| SOCC | Science Operations Control Center |
| SOLSPEC | Solar Spectrum (Space Shuttle instrument from Europe) |
| SOLSTICE | Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment |
| SOM | Space Oblique Mercator (projection); Spatial Object Manager |
| SONAR | Sound Navigation and Ranging |
| SONET | Synchronous Optical Network |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| SORCE | Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
| SOX | Southern Crossroads |
| SOW | Statement of Work |
| SPANS | Simple Protocol for Asynchronous Transfer Mode Network Signaling |
| SPDB | Science Processing Database |
| SPIE | Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers |
| SPIN-2 | Space Information-2 Meter Data (Russian Space Agency) |
| SPOT | Systeme Pour l'Observation de la Terre |
| SPoRT | Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center |
| SPS | SAR Processing System (ASF) |
| SPS | Science Processing System |
| SRB | Surface Radiation Budget |
| SRB | Standing Review Board |
| SRL | Shuttle Research Laboratory |
| SROM | Spectro-radiometer for Ocean Monitoring |
| SRR | System Requirements Review |
| SRS/GPS | Stellar Reference System/Global Positioning System |
| SRTM | Shuttle Radar Topology Mission |
| SSA | Solid State Altimeter (See EOS ALT) |
| SSALT | Solid-State Altimeter |
| SSB | Space Studies Board |
| SSBUV | Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet |
| SSC | Stennis Space Center |
| SSE | Science System Element |
| SSE | Surface Solar Energy |
| SSEC | Space Science and Engineering Center (University of Wisconsin) |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
| SSI&T | Science Software Integration and Test |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
| SSM/T | Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature Sounder |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| SSU | Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| STA | Science and Technology Agency |
| STDM | Spacecraft Tracking and Data Network |
| STGT | Second TDRSS Ground Terminal |
| STIKSCAT | Stick Scatterometer |
| STS | Short Term Schedule |
| STS | Space Transport System |
| SUCCESS | SUbsonic aircraft Contrail and Clouds Effects Special Study |
| SUDS | Science, User and Data Services |
| SW | Shortwave radiation |
| SWBD | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Water Body Dataset |
| SWG | Science Working Group |
| SWIR | Shortwave infrared (TM5 and TM7 spectral region) |
| SWIRLS | Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder |
| T | Back to top |
| T&C | Telemetry and Command |
| TT&C | Tracking, Telemetry and Command |
| TARFOX | Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment |
| TB | terabyte (1012) |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TCP | Transport Control Protocol |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDOPF | Time Dependent Operational Parameter Fire |
| TDRS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite |
| TDRSS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
| TEDA | Technical Data Acquisition Equipment (ADEOS) |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| TGD | Thermal Infrared |
| TGDDIS | Trace Gas Dynamics Data Information System |
| THORpex | THe Observing-system Research and predictability experiment |
| THREDDS | THematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services |
| TIGER | Thermal Infrared Ground Emission Radiometer |
| TIM | TRMM Microwave Imager |
| TIMS | Therms Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| TIN | Triangular Irregular Network |
| TIR | Thermal Infrared |
| TIROS | Television and Infrared Operational Satellite |
| TIRS | Thermal Infrared Scanner |
| TIS | Topographic Information Systems |
| TISF | Tape Inventory Sequential Files (GSFC) |
| TLS | Terrestrial Laser Scanning |
| TLSCF | Team Led Science Computing Facility |
| TM | Thematic Mapper (Landsat 5) |
| TMI | TRMM Microwave Instrument (Japan) |
| TWMS | Tile Web Map Service |
| TMR | TOPEX Microwave Radiometer |
| TOAST | Total Ozone Analysis using SBUV/2 and TOVS |
| TOGA | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere |
| TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| TOPEX | Ocean Topography Experiment |
| TOPSAR | Topographic Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| TRACER | Tropospheric Radiometer for Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Research |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| TRUST | TDRSS Resource User Support Terminal |
| TSAVI | Transformed Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index |
| TSDIS | TRMM Science Data and Information System |
| TSS | TRMM Support System |
| TSTOL | TRMM System Test and Operations Language |
| TSU | TRMM Science User |
| TURFTS | TDRSS User Radio Frequency Test Set |
| U | Back to top |
| UAF | University of Alaska-Fairbanks |
| UARP | Upper Atmosphere Research Program |
| UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UCL | University College, London |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UDP/IP | User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
| UIUC | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| um | micrometer |
| UMBC | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| UNOOSA | United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URS | User Registration System (EOSDIS) |
| UserDIS | User Data Information System |
| USDA | United State Department of Agriculture |
| USGCRP | United States Global Change Research Program |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| USNO | United States Naval Observatory |
| USNVC | United States National Vegetation Classification |
| USO | Ultra-Stable Oscillator |
| UTC | Universal Time, Coordinated |
| UTCF | Universal Time Correlation Factor |
| UTDF | Universal Tracking Data Format |
| UTM | Universal Transverse Mercator |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| UWG | User Working Group |
| V | Back to top |
| V0 | Version 0 |
| VAS | VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |
| VCF | Vegetation Continuous Fields |
| VCL | Vegetation Canopy Lidar |
| VGT | SPOT-4 VEGETATION instrument (France) |
| VHRPC | Very High Resolution Panchromatic Camera |
| VHRR | Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| VI | Vegetation Index |
| VID | Vegetation Index Differencing |
| VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
| VIP | Vegetation Index Products |
| VIRGO | Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations |
| VIRR | Visible and Infrared Radiometer |
| VIRS | Visible Infrared Scanner |
| VIRSR | Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer |
| VIS | Visible (spectral region) |
| VIS-UV | Visible/Ultraviolet Spectrometer |
| VIS/IR | Visible/Infrared |
| VISSR | Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES) |
| VML | Vector Markup Language |
| VMM | VISSR Multiplexor/Modulator |
| VNIR | Visible and Near-infrared (spectral region) |
| VOLCAM | Volcanic Ash Mission |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| VSAR | Variable Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| VTIR | Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer |
| W | Back to top |
| W/A | Working Agreement |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Program |
| WCS | Web Coverage Service |
| WDVI | Weighted Difference Vegetation Index |
| WELD | Web Enabled Landsat Data |
| Wetnet | Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I (MSFC) |
| WFF | Wallops Flight Facility |
| WFOV | Wide Field Of View |
| WG | Working Group |
| WGCV | Working Group on Calibration and Validation (CEOS) |
| WGD | Working Group on Data (CEOS) |
| WGISS | Working Group on Information Systems and Services |
| WGS | Wallops Ground System |
| WGS 84 | World Geodetic System 1984 |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| WiFS | Wide Field-of-view-Sensor |
| WiMAX | Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access |
| WIST | Warehouse Inventory Search Tool |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WMS | Web Map Service |
| WMTS | Web Map Tile Service |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
| WOTIS | Wallops Orbital Tracking Information System |
| WSC | White Sands Complex |
| WSGT | White Sands Ground Terminal |
| WSMC | Western Space and Missile Center |
| WTS | Wallops Tracking Station |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| X | Back to top |
| X-SAR | X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| xDLS | eXtensible Distance Learning System |
| XHTML | eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XP | Exchange Point |
| XPS | XUV Photometer System |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT | eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation |
| Y | Back to top |
| YIBS-CEO | Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies - Center of Earth Observation |
| YTD | Year To Date |
| Z | Back to top |
Last Updated: Dec 1, 2016 at 9:01 AM EST
