Acronym | Definition |
AZ/EL | Azimuthal / Elevation |
AXAF | Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility |
AWT | Abstract Windowing Toolkit (Java) |
AWS | Automatic Weather Stations |
AWOTS | Automated Wallops Orbital Tracking Station |
AWN | Angle White Noise |
A&E | Activation And Evaluation |
A&R | Automation And Robotics |
A&SG | Avionics & Surveillance Group |
A-DAAC | Affiliated-Distributed Active Archive Center |
A/C | Air Conditioning |
A/D | Analog To Digital |
A/S | Anti-Spoofing |
A/SA | Arid/Semi-Arid |
A/SWSWT | ADEOS II/Seawinds Science Working Team |
AA | Astronomical Almanac |
AA | Ancillary Data Access |
AA | Ancillary Data Access ASTER |
AA | Associate Administrator |
AAA | Alarms, Alerts and Advisories |
AABW | Antarctic Bottom Water |
AAG | Association Of American Geographers |
AAL | Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaptation Layer |
AAL5 | Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaptation Layer 5 |
AALE | Adjusted Annual Loss Expectancy |
AAOE | Airborne Antartic Ozone Experiment |
AAP | Advanced Archival Products |
AAPVL | Approval |
AAQS | Ambient Air Quality Standards |
AASE | Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition |
AASE II | Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition II |
AATSR | Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ESA) |
AB | Advanced Bus |
ABC++ | Document Generator Used To Provide Class Level Detail |
ABCR | As Built Configuration Report |
ABE | Archive Browser And Extractor |
ABI | Application Binary Interface |
ABI | Advanced Baseline Image |
ABL | Allocated Baseline |
ABLE | Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment |
ABOM | Austrailian Bureau Of Meteorology |
ABR | Available Bit Rate |
ABS | Oxygen A-Band Spectrometer |
AC | Alternating Current |
AC | Atmospheric Corrector |
ACAD | Attitude Control And Determination |
ACBM | Autonomous Command Block Memory |
ACCA | Automated Cloud Cover Assessment |
ACD | Architectural Control Document |
ACDA | Asociació N Costarricense Para El Desarrollo Aerospacial (Costa Rican Association For Aerospace Development) |
ACDS | Attitude Control Determination Subsystem |
ACE | Aerosol Characterization Experiment |
ACE | Attitude Control Electronics |
ACE | Advanced Composition Explorer |
ACE | Array Clamp Electronics |
ACE | Analog Control Electronics |
ACF | Automated Control Function |
ACFG | Management Agent Configuration File |
ACHP | Advisory Council On Historic Preservation |
ACI | Allocated Configuration Identification |
ACI | Administratively Controlled Information |
ACL | Access Control List |
ACMAP | Atmospheric Chemistry and Modeling Analysis Program |
ACMHW | Access And Control Management Hardware [Configuration Item] |
ACP | Archive Control Process |
ACQ | Acquisition |
ACR | Active Cavity Radiometer |
ACRIM | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor |
ACRIMSAT | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite |
ACRIMSat | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite |
ACRS/TLAS | Automated Conflict Resolution System/TDRSS Look Angle System |
ACS | Attitude Control System |
ACS | Archived Catalog System (Asf) |
ACS | Activity Schedule |
ACS | Advanced Camera For Surveys |
ACS | Automated Cartridge System |
ACSE | Association Control Service Element |
ACSE | Automated Console System For Library Services |
ACSE | Attitude Control System Electronics |
ACSLS | Automated Cartridge System Library Software |
ACSYS | Arctic Climate System Study |
ACTES | An Associate Of Arts In Community Colleges For Training In Earth Sciences |
ACTS | Advanced Communication Technology Satellite |
ACU | Accelerometer Unit |
ACU | Antenna Control Unit |
ACWP | Acutal Cost Of Work Performed |
AD | Acceptance Check/TC Data |
AD | Applicable Document |
Ada | A Program Language |
ADA | A Programming Language |
ADA | Angular Displacement Assembly |
ADA | Array Drive Assembly |
ADABL | As Designed As Build List |
ADAC | Attitude Determination And Control |
AdaDL | Ada Design Language |
ADADS | ASTER Data Archive And Distribution System |
ADALT | Advanced Radar Altimeter |
ADC | Affiliated Data Center |
ADC | Analog To Digital Converter |
ADC | After Date Of Contract |
Adc | Amperes Direct Current |
ADCLS | Advanced Data Collection And Location System |
ADCS | Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem |
ADD | Architecture Description Document |
ADD | Architecture Design Document |
ADE | Array Drive Electronics |
ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing System (Japan) |
ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan) |
ADEOS-II | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite II |
ADEOS-II | Advanced Earth Observing System II |
ADEPT | Advanced Design Electronic Packaging Technique |
ADG | Acquisition Data Generator |
ADGE | Air Defense Ground Environment |
ADM | Administrative Message |
ADM | Antenna Drive Mechanism |
ADM | Antenna Deployment Mechanism |
ADM | Angular Distribution Model |
ADN | ASTER Data Network |
ADO | Active Data Object |
ADP | Automated Data Processing |
ADPE | Automated Data Processing Equipment |
ADRO | Application Development Research Opportunity |
ADRS | Automated Defect Reporting System |
ADS | Archive and Distribution Segment |
ADS | Attitude Displacement Sensors |
ADS | Attitude System |
ADS | Archive Data Set |
ADS | Attitude Determination Subsystem |
ADS | Attitude Determination System |
ADS | Ancillary Data Service |
ADS | Angular Displacement Sensor |
ADSERV | Advertising Service |
ADSHW | Advertising Service Hardware [Configuration Item] |
ADSL | Asymmetric DSL |
ADSRV | Advertising Service CSCI |
ADT | Abstract Data Type |
ADT | Architectural Development Team |
ADT | Activity Definer Tool |
AE | Atmospheric Explorer |
AEAP | Atmospheirc Effects Of Aviation Program |
AEAP | Atmospheirc Effects Of Aviation Project |
AEB | Brazilian Space Agency |
AEDP | Astrometry And Engineering Data Processing |
AEI | AEI (Solar Array DC-Motor Manufacturer) A Subcontractor To Fokker Space |
AEM | Application Explorer Mission |
AEM | Analog Electronics Module (MODIS) |
AEP | Application Environment Profile |
AER | Atmospheric And Environmental Research |
AERI | Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer |
AERO | Aerosol |
AEROnet | Aeronautics Network |
AERONET | Aerosol Robotic Network |
AES | Application Environment Specification |
AES | Aerojet Electro Systems |
AES | Atmospheric Environment Service |
AESA | Atmospheric Effects Of Stratospheric Aircraft Program |
AESOPS | Antarctic Environment Southern Ocean Process Study |
AESP | Aerospace Education Services Program |
AET | Actual Evapo-Transpiration |
AETD | Applied Engineering And Technology Directorate |
AF | Audio Frequency |
AFAM | Aura Fall Annual Meeting |
AFB | Air Force Base |
AFC | Application Foundation Class (Microsoft) |
AFD | Architecture Flow Diagrams |
AFE | Annual Frequency Estimate |
AFGWC | Air Force Global Weather Central |
AFM | Aura FSW Maintenance |
AFM | Award Fee Milestone |
AFN | Acquisition Failure Notification |
AFPRO | Air Force Plant And Representative Office |
AFS | Andrews File System |
AFSCF | Air Force Satellite Control Facility |
AFSCN | Air Force Satellite Control Network |
AFWA | Air Force Weather Agency |
AGAGE | Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
AGCI | Aspen Global Change Institute |
AGCM | Atmospheric General Circulation Model |
AGDS | ASTER Ground Data System |
AGE | Aerospace Ground Equipment |
AGE | Associated Ground Elements |
AGL | Above Ground Level |
AGN | Active Galatic Nuclei |
AGP | Ancillary Geographic Product (MISR) |
AGS | ASTER Ground System |
AGS | Alaska Ground Station |
AGU | American Geophysical Union |
AHAP | Alaska High-Altitude Aerial Photography |
AHAP | NASA High Altitude Aerial Photography |
AHM | Attitude Hold Mode |
AHWGC | Ad Hoc Working Group On Consumers |
AHWGP | Ad Hoc Working Group On Production |
AHWGP | Ad Hoc Working Group On Processing |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
AI&T | Algorithm Integration And Test |
AIAA | American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics |
AICC | ASTER Instrument Control Center |
AID | Ada Information Description |
AID | Architecture Interconnection Diagram |
AIDJEX | Artic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment |
AIF | Algorithm Integration Facility (Uk) |
AIFF | Type Of Sound File Format |
AIIM | Association For Information And Image Management |
AIM | Automated Information Management |
AIM | Assurance Implementation Matrix |
AIMCO | Automated Information Management Council |
AIR | Airborne Imaging Radar |
AirMISR | Airborne Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
AIRSAR | Aircraft Synthetic Aperture Radar |
AIS | Airborne Imaging Spectrometer |
AIS | Automated Information Security |
AIS | Automated Information System |
AISC | Assessment And Information Services Center |
AISO | Automated Information Security Officer |
AIT | Algorithm Integration Team |
AIT | Algorithm Integration And Test |
AIT | Assembly, Integration & Test (Component Level) |
AITHW | Algorithm Integration And Test Hardware [Configuration Item] |
AITT | Algorithm Integration And Test Team |
AITTL | Algorithm Integration And Test CSCI |
AL | Aluminum |
ALDC | Adaptive Lossless Data Compression |
ALDT | Administrative Logistics Delay Time |
ALE | Annual Loss Expectancy |
ALE | Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment |
ALEXIS | Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors |
ALG | Algorithm |
ALI | Advanced Land Imager |
ALINK | Active Link (Html) |
ALOG | Application Log File |
ALOS | Advanced Land Observation Satellite |
ALPEX | Alpine Experiment |
ALRSS | Advanced Land Remote Sensing System |
ALS | Archimedial Log Spiral (Omni Antenna) |
ALT | Altimeter |
ALTA | Active Long-Term Archive |
ALTMS | Airborne Lidar Topographic Mapping System |
AM | Morning (Ante Meridiem) |
AM | Assurance Manager |
AM-1 | EOS AM Mission Spacecraft 1, Morning Spacecraft Series -- ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS And MOPITT Instruments |
AMAO | Advanced Missions Analysis Office |
AMASS | Archival Management And Storage System |
AMD | Advanced Microdevices (A Company) |
AMDS | Automated Message Distribution System |
AME | Antenna Mounted Equipment |
AMEX | Australian Monsoon Experiment |
AMI | Active Microwave Instrument |
AMIP | Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project |
AML | Automated Media Library |
AMLS | Array MLS |
AMMS | Acquisition And Material Management System |
AMOC | Am Mission Operations Center |
Amp | Amperes |
AMP | Assurance Management Plan |
AMPE | Automated Message Processing Exchange |
AMPR | Advanced Microwave Precipitation Radiometer |
AMPTE | Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorer |
AMPU | Attitude Maneuver Planning Utility |
AMR | Altimetry Microwave Radiometer |
AMRC | Auxiliary Master Reference Cube |
AMRIR | Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer |
AMS | American Meteorological Society |
AMS | Automated Meteorological Station |
AMS | Automated Message System |
AMS | Archive Management Software |
AMS | ASTER Mission Simulator |
AMSR | Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer |
AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
AMSR-CU | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Control Unit |
AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer For EOS |
AMSR-SU | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Sensor Unit |
AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A |
AMSU-A1 | AMSU-A1 Module - Receives V And W Band Frequencies On Channels 3-15 |
AMSU-A2 | AMSU-A2 Module - Receives K And Ka Band Frequencies On Channels 1 & 2 |
AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B (Earlier MHS, Became HSB) |
AMTS | Advanced Meteorological Temperature Sounding Study |
AMTS | Advanced Meteorological Temperature Sounder |
AMTS | Advanced Moisture And Temperature Sounder |
AMU | Atomic Mass Unit |
ANA | Analysis |
Andes MIS | Andean Morphstectonic Information System |
ANIR | Advanced Networking Infrastructure And Research |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
ANZONE | Antartic Zonal Experiment |
Ao | Operational Availability |
AO | Announcement Of Opportunity |
AOC | Award Of Contract |
AOC | Archive Operational Capability |
AOCS | Attitude And Orbit Control System |
AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
AOI | Area Of Interest |
AOI | Angle Of Incidence |
AOIPS | Atmospheric And Oceanographic Information Processing System |
AOL | Airborne Oceanographic Lidar |
AOS | Acquisition Of Signal |
AOS | Area Of Search |
AOS | Advanced Orbiting System |
AOS | Archive And Operations System (ASF) |
AOS | ASTER Operations Segment |
AOSP | Advanced On-Board Signal Processor |
AOT | ASTER Operations Team |
AP | Attached Payload |
AP | Algorithm Package |
AP | Accounts Payable |
APA | Allowance For Program Adjustment |
APACM | Atmospherics Physics And Chemistry Monitors |
APAE | Attached Payload Accommodation Equipment |
APAFO | Advanced Particles And Fields Observatory |
APAR | Abosrbed Photosynthetic Active Radiation |
APC | Aft payload Capsule |
APC | Access/Process Coordinators |
APCD | Air Pollution Control District |
APDU | Application Protocol Data Unit |
APFZ | Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone |
API | Application Programming Interface |
APID | Application Process Identifier |
APID | Application (Packet) Identifier |
APID | Application Packet Identifier |
APL | Applied Physics Laboratory (At Johns Hopkins University) |
APOPP | Aerosol Physical And Optical Properties Product |
APP | Applications Protability Profile |
APR | Applied Parallel Research |
APRP | Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing |
APS | Action Per Second |
APS | Acquisition Planning System |
APT | Automatic Picture Transmission |
APT | Automatice Picture Transmission |
APT | Advanced Picture Taking |
AQA | Algorithm Quality Assurance |
AQAHW | Algorithm QA Hardware (Configuration Item) |
AQAHWCI | Algorithm Quality Assurance Hardware Configuration Item |
AQPSK | Asynchronous Quadrature Phse Shift Keying |
Aqua | Formerly Called The PM Project (Under The Earth Science Enterprise Program) |
AR | Accounts Receivable |
AR | Acquire Request |
AR | Acceptance Review |
AR | Action Request |
AR | Axial Ratio |
ARA | Appletalk Remote Access |
ARA | Atmospheric Radiation Analysis |
ARA | Acquire Request Acknowledgment |
ARAM | Automated Reliability/ Availability/ Maintainability |
ARC | Ames Research Center |
ARC | Antarctic Research Center |
ARC | Applied Research Corporation (ECS Team) |
ARC | Archiver |
arcsec | Arc-Seconds |
ARDB | Automated Requirements Database |
ARE | Array Regulator Electronics (EPS) |
ARE | Array Regulator Electronics |
ARESE | Arm Enhanced Shortwave Experiment |
ARF | Action Request Form |
ARGOS | Argos Data Collection And Position Location System |
ARGOS+ | Argos Data Collection And Location System (France) |
ARIA | Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft |
ARICS | Accounts Receivable Invoice Control System |
ARIN | Aerospace Resource Information Network |
ARISTOTELES | Applications And Research Involving Space Technologies Observing The Earths' Field From Low Earth Orbiting Satellite |
ARL | Anomaly Resolution Lead |
ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE Program) |
ARM | Array Regulator Module |
ARMSAT | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Satellite |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocols |
ARP | Ancillary Radiometric Product |
ARPA | Advance Research Project Agency |
ARPANET | Advanced Research Project Agency Net |
ARS | Agricultural Research Service |
ARS | Action Request System |
ARTI | Advanced Range Technology Initiative |
ARW | Angle Random Walk |
AS | Advanced Solid, I.E., Atlas Ii As |
AS | Administration Stations |
AS | Access Subgroup (Part Of CEOS-WGISS) |
AS&M | Analytical Services And Materials, Inc. |
ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ESA) |
ASAS | Advanced Solid-State Array Spectrometer |
ASCA | Advanced Satellite For Cosmology And Astrophysics |
ASCAT | Advanced Scatterometer |
ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
ASCSS | Automatic Spacecraft Configuration Status System |
ASCVR | As Shipped Configuration Verification Report |
ASDC | Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (Langley) |
ASDC | Atmospheric Sciences Data Center |
ASDPS | ASTER Science Data Processing System |
ASE | Airborne Support Equipment |
ASET | Alliance System Engineering Team |
ASF | Alaska SAR Facility (DAAC) |
ASFUWG | ASF User Working Group |
ASHE | Airborne Summer Hemisphere Experiment (NOAA) |
ASHOE | Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment |
ASI | Agenzia Spaziale Italiana |
ASI | Ampere-Second Integration |
ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
ASLE | Adjusted Single Loss Expectancy |
ASM | Acquisition Strategy Meeting |
ASM | Attached Sync Marker |
ASM | ASTER System Management |
ASME | American Society Of Mechanical Engineers |
ASMO | Advanced Storage Magneto-Optical |
ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation One |
ASP | Alaska SAR Processor |
ASP | Active Server Pages |
ASPRS | American Society For Photogrammetry And Remote Sensing |
ASQC | American Society For Quality Control |
ASRM | Advanced Solid Rocket Motor |
ASSIST | ADPE System Sizing Tool |
ASSY | Assembly |
AST | Algorithm Support Team |
AST | ASTER Science Team |
ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (Formerly ITIR) |
ASTEX | Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment |
ASTGW | ASTER Gateway CSCI |
ASTR | Aster |
ASTRO | Astronomy Platform (Shuttle) |
AT | Acceptance Test |
AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph |
AT&T | American Telephone And Telegrah |
AT/SV | Acceptance Test, System Verification |
ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
ATC | Absolute Time Command |
ATC | Active Thermal Control |
ATC | Absolute Time Control |
ATCAS | Advanced Technology Composite Aircraft Structures |
ATCI | Agent Client Item |
ATCS | Absolute Time Command Sequence |
ATDRSS | Advanced Tracking And Data Relay Satellite System |
ATE | Automatic Test Equipment |
ATES | Alcatel Espace Systems |
ATG | Aeropsace Test Group |
ATIP | Advanced Technology Initiatives Program |
ATL | Automated Tape Library |
ATLAB | Atmospheric Laboratory |
ATLANTA | Atlanta Land-Use Analysis: Temperature And Air-Quality |
ATLAS | Atmospheric Laboratory For Applications And Science |
ATLAS | Advanced Thermal And Land Applications Sensor |
ATLID | Atmospheric Lidar |
ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
ATM | Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscope |
ATM | Airborne Terrain Mapping |
ATM | Asynchronous Transmission Mode |
ATMARP | Asynchronous Transfer Mode Address Resolution Protocol |
ATMI | Application Transaction Management Interface |
ATMOS | Atmospheric Observations Satellite |
ATMOS | Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy |
ATMP | Acceptance Test Management Plan |
ATMS | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder |
ATN | Advanced TIROS-N |
ATO | Acceptance Test Organization |
ATP | Acceptance Test Plan |
ATP | Acceptance Test Procedure |
ATP | Acceptance Test Package |
ATP | Automatic Test Procedures |
ATP | Approval To Process (Letter) |
ATP | Authority To Proceed |
ATR | Acceptance Test Review |
ATR | Assistance Technical Representative |
ATRR | Acceptance Test Readiness Review |
ATS | Advanced Technology Satellite |
ATS | Access To Space |
ATSDR | Agency For Toxic Substances And Disease Registry |
ATSR | Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ESA) |
ATT | Acceptance Test Team |
ATT | Automated Test Tool |
ATT/PL | Attached Payload |
AU | Audio Format (Developed For Sun Workstations) |
AUI | Adapter User Interface |
AUI 802.3 | 10 Base 5 (Thick Ethernet) Interface |
AURIO | Auroral Imaging Observatory |
AUX | Auxiliary |
AVCS | Advanced Vidicon Camera System |
AVG | Average |
AVHRR | Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer |
AVHRR GAC | AVHRR Global Coverage Area |
AVHRR LAC | AVHRR Local Area Coverage |
AVIRIS | Airborne Visible And Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
AVIS | Airborne Vegetation Index Sensor |
AVNIR | Advanced Visible And Near-Infrared Radiometer |
AVR | Automatic Voice Recognition |
AVS | Advanced Visualization System |
AWCS | Agency-Wide Coding System |
AWD | Award |
AWG | American Wire Gauge |
AWIPS-90 | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System For The 90's |