| AERONET |
Aerosol Robotic Network |
| AirMISR |
Airborne Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
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| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
|
| AMSU |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
|
| AOI |
angle of incidence
|
| ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
program
|
| ASF |
Alaska SAR Facility
|
| ASTER |
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission
and Reflection Radiometer
|
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution
Radiometer
|
| AVIRIS |
Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging
Spectrometer
|
| BOREAS |
Boreal Ecosystem - Atmosphere Study
|
| BRDF |
bidirectional reflectance distribution func-tion
|
| BSRN |
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
|
| CAM |
calibration attitude maneuver
|
| CERES |
Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy
System Network
|
| CIESIN |
Consortium for International Earth
Science Information Network
|
| CZCS |
Coastal Zone Color Scanner
|
| DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Center
|
| DAO |
Data Assimilation Office
|
| DEM |
digital elevation model
|
| DoE |
Department of Energy
|
| ECS |
EOSDIS Core System
|
| EDC |
EROS Data Center
|
| EDOS |
EOS Data and Operations System
|
| El Niño |
Spanish for the “Christ Child”; refers to
the warm Pacific Ocean currents that
periodically appear around Christmas
time and can last for months.
|
| ENSO |
El Niño Southern Oscillation
|
| ERBE |
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
|
| EOS |
Earth Observing System
|
| Terra |
the first EOS platform (launches in 1998);
crosses the equator at 10:30 a.m. in a
descending polar orbit
|
| EOS CHEM |
EOS Chemistry Mission
|
| Aqua |
the second EOS platform (launches
December 2000); crosses the equator at
1:30 p.m. in an ascending polar orbit
|
| EOSDIS |
EOS Data and Information System
|
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency
|
| EROS |
Earth Resources Observation System
|
| ESE |
Earth Science Enterprise
|
| FEWS |
Famine Early Warning System
|
| GCM |
General Circulation Model
|
| GCP |
ground control point
|
| GDS |
Ground Data System
|
| GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center
|
| ICESat-1 |
Ice Cloud & land Elevation Satellite
|
| IDS |
Interdisciplinary Science
|
| IRT |
Infrared thermal
|
| JAROS |
Japan Resources Observation System
Organization
|
| Jason-1 |
EOS Radar Altimeter
|
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|
| Landsat |
Land Remote-sensing Satellite
|
| LaRC |
Langley Research Center
|
| LTER |
Long-Term Ecological Research
|
| MAS |
MODIS Airborne Simulator
|
| MASTER |
MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator
|
| MATR |
MOPITT Airborne Test Radiometer
|
| MELCO |
Mitsubishi Electric Company
|
| Meteor-3M |
Russian Operational Weather Satellite
|
| MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
|
| MITI |
Japan’s Ministry of International Trade
and Industry
|
| MMR |
Modular Multi-band Radiometer
|
| MOBY |
Marine Optical Buoy
|
| MODIS |
Moderate-resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer
|
| MOPITT |
Measurements of Pollution in the
Troposphere
|
| MTF |
modulation transfer function
|
| MWIR |
Mid-wave Infrared
|
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
|
| NASDA |
National Space Development Agency of
Japan
|
| NAU |
Northern Arizona University
|
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric
Research
|
| NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
|
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
|
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
|
| NRLM |
National Research Laboratory of
Metrology (Japan)
|
| NSF |
National Science Foundation
|
| NSIDC |
National Snow and Ice Data Center
|
| OBC |
onboard calibrator
|
| ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
|
| PARABOLA III |
Portable Apparatus for Rapid Acquisition
of Bidirectional Observations of the Land
and Atmosphere
|
| POLDER |
Polarization and Directionality of Earth’s
Reflectances
|
| RGB |
Red/Green/Blue color
|
| SAGE III |
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas
Experiment III
|
| SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar
|
| SBRS |
Hughes Corporation’s Santa Barbara
Remote Sensing
|
| SCF |
Science Computing Facility
|
| SCAR-B |
Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation-Brazil
|
| SeaWiFS |
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
|
| SI |
Systeme Internationale
|
| SRCA |
Spectroradiometric Calibration Assembly
|
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature
|
| SWAMP |
Science Working Group for the EOS
AM-1 Platform
|
| SWIR |
Short-Wavelength Infrared
|
| TDRSS |
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
|
| TIR |
Thermal Infrared
|
| TIROS |
Television and Infrared Observation
Satellite
|
| TLCF |
Team Leader Computing Facility
|
| TM |
Thematic Mapper
|
| TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
|
| TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
|
| TRMM |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
|
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey
|
| VNIR |
Visible and Near-Infrared
|
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Program
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