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- AATSR: Advanced Along -Track Scanning Radiometer
- ABCL: As Built Configuration List ABM Apogee Boost Motor
- ACRIM: Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
- ADEOS: Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
- ADM: Angular Dependence Model
- AEM: Applications Explorer Mission
- AFTN: Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network
- AGC: Automatic Grain Control
- AGCM: Atmospheric General Circulation Model
- AIRS: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
- ALT: Altimeter
- AMI: Active Microwave Instrumentation
- AMSR: Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
- AMSU: Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
- AMSU-A: Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit -A
- AOCS: Attitude and Orbit Control System
- API: Antecedent Precipitation Index
- APT: Automatic Picture Transmission
- ARGOS: ARGOS Data Collection and Location System
- ARRL: American Radio Relay League
- ASAR: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
- ASCAT: Advanced Wind Scatterometer
- ASECNA: Agency pour la Seceirite de la Navigation Ericanne
- ASTER: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
- ATI: Area Time Integralp
- ATLID: Atmospheric Lidar
- ATOVS: Advanced TOVS ATS Applications Technology Satellite
- AVCS: Advanced Vidicon Camera System
- AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
- AVM: Anti Vibration Mount
- AVNIR - Advanced Visible and Near: Infrared Radiometer
- AVT: Acceptance Vibration Test
- AZ/EL: Azimuth/ Elevation
- BAPTA: Bearing and Pover Transfer Assembly
- BIAS: Bristol/ NOAA InterActive Scheme
- BUFR: Buffer Code
- BUV: BackscatterUltraviolet Spectrometer
- CAC: Climate Analysis Center
- CCD: - Charge: Coupled Device
- CCR: Cloud Cover Radiometer
- CCSDS: Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
- CDA: Command and Data Acquisition
- CEMES: Centre d’Edutes de la Meteorologie Spatiale
- CERES: Clouds and The Earth’s Radiant Energy System
- CFC: ChloroFluoro Carbon
- CG: Center of Gravity
- CGMS: Committee on Coordination for Geostationary Meteorological Satellites
- CI: Current Intensity
- CIDL: Configuration Item Data List
- CIRA: Cooperative Institude for Research in the Atmosphere
- CLAES: Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
- CNES: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
- CRT: Cathode Ray Tube
- CST: Convective -Stratiform Technique
- CZCS: Coastal Zone Color Scanner
- DAAC: Distributed Active Archive Center
- DCLS: Data Collection and Location System (Also referred to as DCS-Data Colection System)
- DCP: Data Collection Platform
- DCS: See DCLS DCS Data Collection System
- DIAL: Differential Absorbtion Lidar
- DMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- DOAS: Differential Optical Absorbtion Spectroscopy
- DORIS: Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
- DPT: Delayed Picture Transmission
- DRIR: Direct Readout Infrared Radiometer
- DS: Dwell Sounding
- ECMWF: European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
- ECT: Equator Crossing Time
- EMC/ESD: Electro Magnetic Compatibility / Electro Static Discharge
- EOS: NASA’s Earth Observing System
- EOS-AERO: EOS Aerosol Mission
- EOS-ALT: EOS Altimetry Mission
- EOS-AM: EOS Morning Crossing(Ascending) Mission
- EOSAT: Earth Observation Satellite Company
- EOS-CHEM: EOS Chemistry Mission
- EOS-COLOR: EOS Ocean Color Instrument
- EOSDIS EOS: Data and Information System
- EOSP: Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter
- EOS-PM: EOS Afternoon Crossing (Descending) Mission
- EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
- EPS: EUMETSAT Polar System
- ERB: Earth Radiation Budget
- ERBE: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
- ERBE-NS: ERBE Nonscanner
- ERBE-S: ERBE Scanner
- ERBS: Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
- ERS-1: European Remote Sensing Satellite1
- ERTS: Earth Resources Technology Satellite
- ESA: European Space Agency
- ESM: Equipment Support Module
- ESMR: Electrically Sca Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
- ESOC: European Space Operations Centre
- ESSA: Environmental Science Services Administration Also Environmental Survey Satellite
- ESTEC: European Space Research and Technology Center
- EUMETSAT: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
- FACE: Florida Area Cumulus Experiment
- FANAS: Forecast for Ascending Node for Automatic Satellites
- FAR: False Alarm Ratio
- FLO: Local Oscillator Frequency
- FOV: Field of View
- FSDR: Foreign Satellite Data Relay
- FWS: Filter Wedge Spectrometer
- GAC: Global Area Coverage
- GARP: Global Atmospheric Research Programme
- GATE GARP: Atlantic Tropic Experiment
- GCOS: Global Chance Observing System
- GDAS: Global Data Assimilation System
- GEO: Geostationary Earth Observatory
- GEO: Geostationary Orbits
- GEWEX: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
- GHIS GOES: High Resolution Interferometer Sounder
- GLAS: Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
- GLAS: Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences
- GLRS: Geoscience Laser Ranging System
- GMS: Geostationary Meterological Satellite
- GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
- GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System
- GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
- GOME: Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
- GOMOS: Global Ozone Monitoring by Occulation of Stars
- GOOS: Global Ocean Observing System
- GOSTCOMP: Global Operational Sea Surface Temperature Computation
- GPI: Goes Precipitation Index
- GRAS GNSS: Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding
- GRIB: Gridded Coded Data
- GSM: Global Spectral Model
- GTS: Global Telecommunications System
- GVAR: Goes Variable
- HEPAD: High Energy Proton and Alpha Detector
- HgCdTe: Mercury Cadmium Telluride
- HIRDLS: High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
- HIRIS: High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
- HIRS: High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
- HIS: High-Spectral-Resolution Interferometer Sounder
- HMMR: High Resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer hPa Hecto Pascal (= mbar)
- HRC: Highly Reflective Cloud
- HRIR: High Resolution Infrared Radiometer
- HRIS: High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
- HRPT: High Resolution Picture Transmission
- IAMAP: International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
- IASI: Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
- ICSU: International Council of Scientific Unions
- IDCS: Image Dissector Camera System
- IFOV: Instantaneous Field of View
- IGAC: International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Programme
- IGBP: International Geosphere Biosphere Programme
- ILAS: Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
- IMG: Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases
- IMP: Instrument Mounting Platform InSb Indium Antimonide
- IOC: Index of Cooperation
- IOC: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO)
- IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IR: Infrared
- IRIS: Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
- IRLS: Interrogation, Recording and Location System
- IRTS: Infrared Temperature Sounder
- ISAMS: Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
- ISLSCP: International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
- ISRO: Indian Space Research Organisation
- ISSWG IASI: Sounding Science Working Group
- ITCZ: Intertropical Covergence Zone
- ITIR: Intermediate Thermal Infrared Radiometer
- ITOS: Improved TIROS Operational Satellite
- ITPR: Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer
- JPL: Jet Propusion Laboratory
- JSTC: Joint Scientific and Technical Committee
- kbps: kilo bits per second
- keV: Kiloelectron Volts
- LAC: Local Area Coverage
- LASA: Lidar Atmospheric Sounder and Altimeter
- LAWS: Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder
- LEO: Low Earth Orbits
- LFM: Limited Fine Mesh
- LIMS: Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
- LIS: Lightning Imaging Sensor
- LRIR: Limb Radiance Inversion Radiometer
- LRPT: Low Rate Picture Transmission
- LSB: Least Significant Bit
- LST: Local Solar Time
- LST: Land Surface Temperature
- LW: Longwave
- MCSST: Multichannel Sea Surface Temperatures
- MDUS: Medium Scale Data Utilization Station
- MEC: Microgravity Environment Compatibility
- MEPED: Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector
- MERIS: Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
- METSAT: Meteorological Satellite
- meV: Megaelectron Volts
- MFOV: Medium Field of View
- MHS: Microwave Humidity Sensor
- MIMR: Multifrequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer
- MIPAS: Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding
- MIRP: Manipulated Information Rate Processor
- MISR: Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro Radiometer
- MITI: Ministry of International Trade and Industry (of Japan)
- MLCE: Maximum-likelihood cloud estimation
- MLS: Microwave Limb Sounder
- MODIS: Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
- MOPITT: Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
- MPE: Meteorological Product Extraction
- MRF: Medium-Range Forecast
- MRIR: Medium-Resolution Infrared Radiometer
- MSB: Most Significant Bit
- MSC: Meteorological Satellite Center
- MSI: Multispectral Imaging
- MSSCC: Multicolor Spin Scan Cloud Camera
- MSU: Microwave Sounding Unit
- MSU: Microwave Sounding Unit
- MTPE: Mission to Planet Earth
- MTS: Microwave Temperature Sounder
- MUSE: Monitor of Ultraviolet Solar Energy
- MVS: Minimum variance simultaneous
- mW: Mili Watts
- N/A: Non Applicable
- NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASDA: National Space Development Agency (of japan)
- NCDC: National Climatic Data Center
- NCR: Non Conformance Report
- NEDL: Noise-equivalent radiance difference
- NEDT: Noise-equivalent temperature difference
- NEMS: Nimbus E Microwave Spectrometer
- NESDIS: National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
- NESS: National Earth Satellite Service
- NEXRAD: Next-Generation Radar
- NGM: Nested Grid Model
- NHC: National Hurricane Centre (America)
- NMC: National Meteorology Centre (USA)
- NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NOSAT: No Satellite
- NSCAT: NASA Scatterometer
- NSSDC: National Space Science Data Center
- NWP: Numerical Weather Prediction
- O3: Ozone
- OASPL: Over All Sound Pressure Level
- OCTS: Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner
- OLR: Outgoing Longwave Radiation
- OLS: Operational Linescan System
- OMI: Ozone Monitoring Instrument
- OPD: Optical Path Difference
- PADL: Polar Atlantic Data Link
- PAM: Perigee Apogee Motor
- PCDAS: Payload Control and Data Acquisition Station
- PCT: Polarization Corrected Brightness Temperature
- PDUS: Primary Data User Station
- PE: Primitive Equation
- PMR: Pressure Modulator Radiometer
- PMT: Photo Multiplier Tube
- POD: Probability of Detection
- POEM: Polar-Orbit Earth Observation Missions
- POES: Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
- POLDER: Polarization and Directionality of Earths Reflectances
- PPI: Plan Position Indicator
- PR: Precipitation Radar
- PRAREE: Precise Range and Range Rate Equipment-Extended
- PRF: Pulse repetition frequency
- PRTY: Priority
- PSD: Power Spectral Density
- QAVT: QuAlification Vibration Test
- RA: Radar Altimeter
- RAFS: Regional Analysis and Forecast System
- RF: Radio Frequency
- RIS: Retroreflector in Space
- RMS: Root mean square
- RPM: Revolutions per minute
- R-S: Radio-Sonde
- RSS: Reaction Support Structure
- RTTS: Real-Time Transmission Systems
- S&R: Search and Rescue
- S/C: Spacecraft
- S/S: Subsystem
- SAB: Sorting into angular bins
- SADM: Solar Array Drive Mechanism
- SAGE: Stratosphere Aerosol and Gas Experiment
- SAM: Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
- SAMS: Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
- SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
- SAS: Solar Aspect Sensor
- SASS: Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer
- SAT: Satellite
- SBUV: Solar BackscatterUltraviolet Radiometer
- SCAMS: Scanning Microwave Spectrometer
- SCARAB: Scanner for the Radiation Budget
- SCIAMACHY: Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography
- SCMR: Surface Composition Mapping Radiometer
- SCR: Selective Chopper Radiometer
- SDUS: Secondary Data User Station
- Sea WIFS: Sea-Viewing Wide Field Sensor
- SEM: Space Environment Monitor
- SEVIRI: Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
- SIR: Shuttle Imaging Radar
- SIRS: Satellite Infrared Spectrometer
- SMM: Solar Maximum Mission
- SMMR: Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
- SMS: Synchronous Meteorological Satellite
- SOCC: Satellite Operations Control Center
- SOLSTICE: Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
- SPL: Sound Pressure Level
- SPOT: Systeme Probatoire d’Observation de la Terre
- SR: Scanning Radiometer
- SSALT: Solid-State Radiometer
- SSM/I: Special Sensor Microwave Imager
- SSM/T: Special Sensor Microwave Temperature
- SST: Sea Surface Temperature
- SSU: Stratospheric Sounding Unit
- ST: Steradian
- STG: Scientific and Technical Group
- STS: Space Transportation System
- SW: Shortwave
- T&DRE: Tracking and Data Relay Experiment
- TBC: To be Confirmed
- TBD: To be Determined
- TED: Total Energy Detector
- TES: Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
- THIR: Temperature Humidity Infrared Radiometer
- TIP: TIROS Information Processor
- TIROS: Television and Infrared Observational Satellite
- TMI: TRMM Microwave Imager
- TMR: TOPEX Microwave Radiometer
- TOA: Top of the Atmosphere
- TOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
- TOPEX: Ocean Topography Experiment
- TOS: Tiros Operational Satellite
- TOVS: TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder Tref Reference Temperature
- TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
- TT&C: Telemetry and TeleCommand
- TTC: Telemetry, Tracking and Command
- TV/TB: Thermal Vacuum / Thermal Balance
- TWERLE: Tropical Wind Energy Conversion and Reference Level Experiment
- TWT: Travelling Wave Tube
- UARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
- UHF: Ultrahigh Frequency
- UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
- UNESCO: United Nations Education, Social and Cultural Organisation
- USGCRP: U.S. Global Change Research Programme
- UTC: Coordinated Universal Time
- VAS: VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
- VDUC: VAS Data Utilization Center
- VHF: Very High Frequency
- VHRR: Very High Resolution Radiometer
- VIRI: Visible and Infrared Imager
- VIRR: Visible and Infrared Radiometer
- VIRS: Visible Infrared Scaner
- VIRSR: Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
- VIS: Visible (Radiation within 0,5-0,9 mm band)
- VISSR: Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer
- VTC: Vacuum Temperature Cycling
- VTPR: Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
- WCRP: World Climate Research Programme
- WEFAX: Weather Facsimile
- WFOV: Wide field of view
- WMC: World Meteorological Center
- WMO: World Meteorological Organisation
- WSR: WSRWeather Service Radar
- WWW: World Weather Watch