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