| ASCII |
American Standard Coded Information
Interchange |
| ATN |
Advanced TIROS-N |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BB |
Blackbody |
| BCD |
Binary Coded Decimal |
| BPI |
Bytes per Inch |
| BPS |
Bits per Second |
| C&GCP |
Climate and Global Change Program (NOAA) |
| CCR |
Cloud Cover Radiometer |
| CCT |
Computer Compatible Tape |
| CDA |
Command and Data Acquisition |
| CDB |
Coefficient Data Base |
| CEMSCS |
Central EnvironMental Satellite Computer
System |
| CNES |
Centre National d'Études Spatiales |
| COST |
Customer Order Servicing and Tracking |
| DACS |
Data Acquisition and Control Subsystems |
| DCDB |
Data Collection and Direct Broadcast Branch |
| EBB |
Electronic Bulletin Board |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange
Code |
| ECS |
Electronic Catalog System |
| EOF |
End of File |
| ERBE |
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| FGGE |
First GARP Global Experiment |
| FOV |
Field of View |
| GAC |
Global Area Coverage |
| GARP |
Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| GELDS |
Grid and Earth Location Data System |
| GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu) |
| HIF |
Historical Instrument File |
| HIRS/2 |
High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/2 |
| HRPT |
High Resolution Picture Transmission |
| IFOV |
Instantaneous Field of View |
| ILABS |
Image Library Browse System |
| IPB |
Interactive Processing Branch |
| IR |
Infrared |
| LAC |
Local Area Coverage |
| LSB |
Least Significant Bit |
| LST |
Local Solar Time |
| MSB |
Most Significant Bit |
| MSU |
Microwave Sounding Unit |
| N/A |
Not Available |
| NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center (NOAA) |
| NEdT |
Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature |
| NEdN |
Noise Equivalent Differential Radiance |
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data and
Information Service |
| NMC |
National Meteorological Center |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration |
| NOAA.SIS |
NOAA's Electronic Bulletin Board for
satellites |
| NORAD |
North American Air Defense Command |
| OSCAR |
Online Satellite Access and Request system |
| OSDPD/PSB |
Office of Satellite Data Processing and
Distribution/Product Systems Branch |
| PMF |
Product Master File |
| POES |
Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental
Satellites (NOAA) |
| PRT |
Platinum Resistance Thermometer |
| P/N |
Pseudo Noise |
| QC |
Quality Control |
| RA/ASB |
Office of Research and Applications/Atmospheric
Sciences Branch |
| SAA |
Satellite Active Archive |
| SADDS |
Satellite Archive Data Delivery System |
| SAIDS |
Satellite Archive Image Delivery System |
| SAR |
Search and Rescue |
| SBBC |
Solar BlackBody Contamination |
| SBUV/2 |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer/2 |
| SSB |
Satellite Services Branch |
| SEM |
Space Environment Monitor |
| S/N |
Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SOCC |
Satellite Operations Control Center |
| SR |
Scanning Radiometer |
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
| SSU |
Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| TBM |
Terabit Memory |
| TIP |
TIROS Information Processor |
| TIROS |
Television InfraRed Observation Satellite |
| TOGA |
Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere project |
| TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| UEF |
User Ephemeris File |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| USSC |
U.S. Space Command (formerly NORAD) |
| UTC |
Coordinate Universal Time |
| UV |
UltraViolet |
| VIS |
Visible |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |