Acronyms - A

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A&P - Archive and Production

A/D - Analog/Digital

AA - Active Archive or Alternative Analysis

AAC - Archive Advisory Committee

AADP - Active Archive Data Package

AAS - Anomaly Analysis Subsystem

ABML - As-Built Materials List

ABPL - As-Built Parts List

ABS - Absolute

AC - Alternate Current or Archive Cache

ACCA - Automated Cloud Cover Assessment or Actual Cloud Cover Average

ACK - Acknowledgement

ACL - Access Control List

ACQ - Acquired Scenes Report

ACRES - Australian Center for Remote Sensing

ACS - Attitude Control System

ACSLS - Automated Cartridge System Library Software

ACU - Antenna Control Unit

ACWP - Actual Cost of Work Performed

AD - Active Directory

ADA - Angular Displacement Assembly or Attitude Displacement Assembly

ADC - After DC Restore or Ancillary Data Corrector

ADD - Algorithm Description Document

ADF - Ancillary Data File

ADIC - Advanced Digital Information Corporation

ADM - Administrative Message

ADML - As-Designed Materials List

ADPL - As-Designed Parts List

ADS - Attitude Displacement Sensors or Angular Displacement Sensor or Archive Data Stager

ADSA - Attitude Displacement Sensor Assembly

ADVP - Algorithm Development and Verification Plan

AEM - Auxiliary Electronics Module

AES - Advanced Encryption Standard

AFB - United States Air Force Base

AFM - Anomalous Frame Manager

AFOV - Angular Field of View

AFWA - Air Force Weather Agency

AGC - Automatic Gain Control

AGE - Automated Ground Equipment

AGS - Alaska Ground Station

AIM - Algorithm Integration Meeting

AIS - Automated Information Security

AIT - Algorithm Implementation Team

ALI - Advanced Land Imager

ALIAS - Advanced Land Image Assessment System

AMP - Allocation Management Planner

AN - Ascending Node

ANC - Ancillary File

ANN - Annotation File

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

ANTLR - Another Tool for Language Recognition

AO - Authorization Official

AOI - Area of Interest

AOS - Acquisition of Signal or Arrival On-Site

API - Application Programming Interface

APID - Application Identification

AQ - Advanced Queuing

AQPSK - Asynchronous Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

AR - Archive or Axial Ratio

AS - Archive Server

ASA - Archive Server Application or Alice Springs [Station] Australia

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASGUI - Archive Server Graphical User Interface

ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning

ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASN - Alice Springs Ground Station

ASQC - American Society for Quality Control

AST - Active Scan Time

ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection

ASTM - American Society for Testing of Materials

AT-ACCA - Artificial Thermal Automated Cloud Cover Assessment

ATBD - Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

ATCS - Absolute Time Command Sequence

ATL - Automated Tape Library

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATS - Absolute Time Sequence

AU - Astronomical Units

AUI - Analyst User Interface

AVPD - Avtec Programmable Demodulator

AVT - Algorithm Verification Test