ADEOS |
Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
BYU |
Brigham Young University |
CNES |
Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales |
DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Center |
DMAS |
Data Management & Archive System |
DN |
Digital Number |
EOS |
Earth Observing System |
EOSDIS |
Earth Observing System Data Information System |
ERS |
European Remote Sensing Satellite |
ESIP |
Earth Science Information Partner |
FOV |
Field of View |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
GAC |
Global Area Coverage |
GDAC |
Global Data Assembly Center |
GHRSST |
Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
GDR |
Geophysical Data Record |
GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
HEFT |
High Efficiency File Transfer |
HRPT |
High Resolution Picture Transmission |
ICD |
Interface Control Document |
IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
IFOV |
Internal Field of View |
IGDR |
Interim Geophysical Data Record |
IMS |
Information Management System |
IR |
Infrared |
ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
LAC |
Local Area Coverage |
LASP |
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado |
MCSST |
Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature |
MOC |
Mission Operations Center |
MODAPS |
MODIS Adaptive Processing System |
MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NAVOCEANO |
Naval Oceanographic Office |
NCEP |
National Center for Environmental Prediction |
NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NODS |
NASA Ocean Data System |
NSCAT |
NASA Scatterometer |
NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
OBPG |
Ocean Biology Processing Group |
OVW |
Ocean Vector Winds |
OST |
Ocean Surface Topography |
PO.DAAC |
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
POET |
PO.DAAC Ocean ESIP Tool |
QA |
Quality Assurance |
QuikSCAT |
NASA Quick Scatterometer |
RMS |
Root Mean Square |
SAFS |
Standard Autonomous File Server |
SCCOOS |
Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System |
SDR |
Science Data Record |
SDS |
Scientific Data Set |
SEAPAC |
SeaWinds Processing and Analysis Center |
SIS |
Software Interface Specification |
SSH |
Sea Surface Height |
SSHA |
Sea Surface Height Anomaly |
SSS |
Sea Surface Salinity |
SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
SWH |
Significant Wave Height |
SWT |
Science Working Team |
TIROS-N |
Television Infrared Observing Satellite Series N |
TMR |
TOPEX Microwave Radiometer |
UM/RSMAS |
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences |
URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
UTC |
Universal Time Coordinated |
WVC |
Wind Vector Cell |