Acronyms
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AE | Ångström Exponent |
AERONET | Aerosol Robotic Network |
AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
AMS | Autonomous Modular Sensor |
AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
AOT | Aerosol Optical Thickness |
API | Application Programming Interface |
APSP | Aerosol Particle Size Parameter |
ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
ARP | Application Related Product |
ASDC | Atmospheric Science Data Center (Langley, Virginia) |
ASTER | Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
AT | Along-Track |
ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
AWS | Amazon Web Services |
B | |
BA | Burned Area |
BB | Blackbody |
BPLUT | Biome Properties Look-Up Table |
BPSA | Bright Pixel Surface Albedo |
BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
C | |
C5 | Collection-5 |
C6 | Collection-6 |
CALIOP | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization |
CAR | Cloud Absorption Radiometer |
CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data System |
CDDIS | Crustal Dynamics Data Information System |
CDFCB | Common Data Format Control Book |
CDI | Climate Data Initiative |
CDR | Climate Data Record |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
CERES | Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System |
CFPA | Cold Focal Plane Assembly |
CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
CKB | Calibration Knowledge Base |
CLASS | Comprehensive Large Array-Data Stewardship System |
CMG | Climate Modeling Grid |
CMR | Common Metadata Repository |
CONUS | Conterminous United States |
COVE | CEOS Visualization Environment |
CT | Cross-Track |
CrIS | Cross-track Infrared Sounder |
D | |
DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
DB | Direct Broadcast |
DDR | Diagnostic Data Record |
DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
DN | Digital Number |
DNB | Day/Night Band |
DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data |
E | |
EASE | Equal-Area Scalable Earth |
ECC | Earthdata Code Collaborative |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
ECV | Essential Climate Variable |
EDOS | EOS Data and Operations System |
EDR | Environmental Data Record |
EDWI | Earthdata Web Infrastructure |
EOS | Earth Observing System |
EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data Information System |
EPTOMS | Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
EROS | Earth Resources Observation and Science |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESDIS | Earth Science Data and Information System |
ESDR | Earth Science Data Record |
ESDSWG | Earth Science Data Systems Working Group |
ESDT | Earth Science Data Type |
ESIP | Earth Science Information Partners |
ETM+ | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus |
EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
EV | Earth View |
EVI | Enhanced Vegetation Index |
F | |
FAPAR | Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
FDF | Flight Dynamics Facility |
FIRMS | Fire Information for Resource Management System |
FOV | Field of View |
FPA | Focal Plane Assembly |
fPAR | Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
FRP | Fire Radiative Power |
FSC | Fractional Snow Cover |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
G | |
GBAD | Ground-Based Attitude Determination |
GCIS | Global Change Information System |
GCMD | Global Change Master Directory |
GDAL | Geospatial Data Abstraction Library |
GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System |
GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
GES-DISC | Goddard Earth Science-Data and Information Services Center (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
GFS | Global Forecast System |
GHRC | Global Hydrology Resource Center (Huntsville, Alabama) |
GIBS | Global Imagery Browse Services |
Giovanni | GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization and Analysis Infrastructure |
GIS | Geographic Information System |
GMAO | Global Modeling and Assimilation Office |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GOCART | Goddard Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport Model |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GP-MCE | General Purpose – Managed Cloud Environment |
GPP | Gross Primary Productivity |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GRAVITE | Government Resource for Algorithm Verification, Independent Testing and Evaluation |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GTM | Ground Track Mercator |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
GeoTIFF | Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format |
H | |
HAM | Half-Angle Mirror |
HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
HEG | HDF-EOS to GeoTIFF Conversion Tool |
HEW | HDF-EOS WEB-based subsetter |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
I | |
ICAP | International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction |
IDPS | Interface Data Processing Segment |
IGBP | International Geosphere Biosphere Programme |
IP | Intermediate Product |
IP | Intermediate Product |
IPCC | Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change |
IQA | Information Quality Act |
IR | Infrared |
ISO | International Standards Organization |
IST | Ice Surface Temperature |
J | |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JPSS | Joint Polar Satellite System |
L | |
L2G | Level-2 Gridded |
LAADS | Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System |
LaRC | Langley Research Center |
LAI | Leaf area index |
LANCE | Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS |
LARSE | Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology |
LDOPE | Land Data Operational Product Evaluation |
LEDAPS | Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System |
LOS | Line of Sight |
LP DAAC | Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) |
LPV | Land Product Validation |
LSB | Least Significant Bit |
LST | Land Surface Temperature |
LSTE | Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity |
LTA | Long-Term Archive |
LTDR | Long-Term Data Record |
LTER | Long-Term Ecological Research |
LUT | Look-Up Table |
LWS | LAADS Web Service |
M | |
MAIAC | Multiangle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction |
MAPSS | MODIS Atmosphere Parameters Subset Statistics |
MAS | MODIS Airborne Simulator |
MASTER | MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator |
MCST | MODIS Characterization Support Team |
MERIS | Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
MEaSUREs | Making Earth System data records for Use in Research Environments |
MODAPS | MODIS Adaptive Processing System |
MODExtract | MODIS Data Pool Extraction Tool |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MODTRAN | MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission |
MPLNET | Micro-Pulse Lidar Network |
MRT | MODIS Reprojection Tool |
MRTSwath | MODIS Reprojection Tool for Swath |
MRTWeb | MODIS Reprojection Tool for the Web |
MTF | Modulation Transfer Function |
MVC | Maximum Value Composite |
MetOp | Meteorological Operational (satellite) |
N | |
NAAPS | NRL Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System |
NACP | North American Carbon Program |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NAVDAS | NRL Variational Analysis Data Assimilation System |
NBAR | Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance |
NCA | National Climate Assessment |
NCC | Near Constant Contrast |
NCDC | National Climatic Data Center (Asheville, North Carolina) |
NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
NDSI | Normalized Difference Snow Index |
NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
NED | National Elevation Dataset |
NEMS | NOAA Environmental Modeling System |
NEON | National Ecological Observatory Network |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
netCDF | Network Common Data Form |
NGAC | NEMS GFS Aerosol Component |
NGAP | NASA-Compliant General Application Platform |
NOGAPS | Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System |
NISE | Near-real-time Ice and Snow Extent |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOGAPS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
NPP | National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
NPP | Net Primary Production |
NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
NRT | Near-Real-Time |
NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center (Boulder, Colorado) |
NTSG | Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group |
O | |
OAD | Operational Algorithm Description |
OB DAAC | Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center |
OBC | On-Board Calibration |
OCDPS | Ocean Color Data Processing System |
OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
OLCI | Ocean and Land Colour Instrument |
OMPS | Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite |
OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
ORNL | Oak Ridge National Lab |
P | |
PEATE | Product Evaluation and Analysis Tool Element |
PGE | Product Generation Executive |
POD | Processing on-Demand |
PSA | Product-Specific Attribute |
Q | |
QA | Quality Assurance |
QC | Quality Control |
QF | Quality Flag |
R | |
RDR | Raw Data Record |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
RIP | Retained Intermediate Product |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
RSB | Reflective Solar Band |
RSR | Relative Spectral Response |
RVS | Response-versus-Scan Angle |
S | |
SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly |
SAVI | Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index |
SBA | Societal Benefit Area |
SCF | Science Computing Facility |
SD | Solar Diffuser |
SDR | Sensor Data Record |
SDS | Science Data Set |
SDSM | Solar Diffuser Stability Monitor |
SDST | Science Data Support Team |
SIC | Sea Ice Characterization |
SIN | Sinusoidal |
SIPS | Science Investigator-led Processing Systems |
SLSTR | Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer |
SNO | Simultaneous Nadir Overpass |
SNPP | Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
SPOT | Subsettability Checker for HDF-EOS Files |
SRCA | Spectroradiometric Calibration Assembly |
SRTM | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
SSEC | Space Science Engineering Center (Univ. of Wisconsin) |
SWIR | Shortwave Infrared |
SeaWiFS | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
T | |
TEB | Thermal Emissive Band |
TIR | Thermal-Infrared |
TIROS | Television Infrared Observation Satellite |
TOA | Top-of-the-Atmosphere |
TOC | Top-of-the-Canopy |
TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
U | |
UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
URS | User Registration System |
USGCRP | U.S. Global Change Research Program |
USGS | United States Geological Survey |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
UWG | User Working Group |
V | |
VC | Vicarious Calibration |
VCF | Vegetation Continuous Fields |
VCM | VIIRS Cloud Mask |
VCST | VIIRS Characterization Support Team |
VI | Vegetation Index |
VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
VNIR | Visible and Near-Infrared |
W | |
WCS | Web Coverage Service |
WGCV | Working Group on Calibration and Validation |
WGS | World Geodetic System |
WMTS | Web Map Tile Service |
WOS | Web Object Storage |
Last updated: September 13, 2016