| Acronym Glossary | |
|---|---|
| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| AM-1 | Not an acronym, used to designate the morning platform of EOS |
| ARGOS | Not an acronym, name given to data collection and location
system on the NOAA Operational Satellites |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Japanese) |
| ATR | Analog Tape Recorder |
| AU | Astronomical Unit |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AZ/EL | Azimuth Elevation |
| BATS | Bermuda Atlantic Time Series |
| BBSR | Bermuda Biological Station for Research |
| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| Cal/Val | Calibration/Validation |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| CHORS | Center for Hydro-Optics and Remote Sensing |
| ChUI | Character-based User Interface |
| CL | Clock |
| CNE | Center Network Environment |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
| D | Data |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DCF | Data Capture Facility |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOMSAT | Domestic Satellite |
| ENVISAT | Environmental Satellite |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| FDDI | Fiber Data Distribution Interface |
| FDF | Flight Dynamics Facility |
| FF | Frame Formatter |
| FIFO | First-In-First-Out (Memory configuration) |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| GAC | Global Area Coverage |
| GDAAC | Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center |
| GLI | Global Imager |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HDLC | High-Level Data Link Control (Communication protocol) |
| HRPT | High Resolution Picture Transmission |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| IDS | Interdisciplinary Science |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IF | Intermediate Frequency |
| IIRV | Improved Inter-Range Vector (For antenna pointing) |
| IMS | Information Management System |
| IR | Infrared |
| L/D | Low noise amplifier/Down converter |
| L0 | Level-0, Raw Data |
| L1A | Level-1A, Calibrated radiances |
| L2 | Level-2, Derived products |
| L3 | Level-3, Gridded and averaged derived products |
| LAC | Local Area Coverage |
| MERIS | Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MET | Meteorological Ancillary Data |
| MISR | Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MLML | Moss Landing Marine Laboratory |
| MOBY | Marine Optical Buoy |
| MOCE | Marine Optical Characterization Experiment |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOPITT | Measure of Pollution in the Troposphere (Canadian) |
| MOS | Marine Observing System |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
|---|---|
| NASCOM | NASA Communications |
| NASDA | National Space Development Agency (Japanese) |
| NCC | Network Control Center |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NRA | NASA Research Announcement |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| NRZ-L | Non-Return-to-Zero Level |
| NRZ-S | Non-Return-to-Zero Space |
| NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| OCTS | Ocean Color Temperature Scanner |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| OSC | Orbital Sciences Corporation |
| PC | (IBM) Personal Computer |
| PlyMBODy | Plymouth Marine Bio-Optical Data Buoy |
| PM-1 | Not an acronym, used to designate the afternoon platform of EOS |
| PML | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| PML/AMT | Plymouth Marine Laboratory/Atlantic Meridional Transect |
| PSAT | Predicted Satellite Acquisition Time (For antenna tracking) |
| QC | Quality Control |
| R&A | Research and Applications |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RCS | Reaction Control Subsystem |
| Rx | Receiver |
| SAR-SAT | Search and Rescue Satellite |
| SDACS | Satellite Data Acquisition and Control |
| SDPS | SeaWiFS Data Processing System |
| SeaBASS | SeaWiFS Bio-Optical Archive and Storage System |
| SeaDAS | SeaWiFS Data Analysis System |
| SeaWiFS | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics, Incorporated |
| SIRREX | SeaWiFS Intercalibration Round-Robin Experiment |
| SOC | Satellite Operations Center |
| SOGS | SeaStar Operations Ground Subsystem |
| SWG | Science Working Group |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TD | Tape Drive |
| TDI | Time Delay and Integration |
| TIROS | Television Infrared Observation Satellite |
| TM | Technical Memorandum |
| TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| TOPEX | Topography Experiment |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| UCSB | University of California at Santa Barbara |
| USSC | United States Space Command |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| WFF | Wallops Flight Facility |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
Irene Antonenko ( antonenk@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-3288