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KML
— Keyhole Markup Language
N/A
— Not Applicable
XML
— Extensible Markup Language
L0
— Level 0
ANSI
— American National Standards Institute, Inc.
FTP
— File Transfer Protocol
ICD
— Interface Control Document
CPU
— Central Processing Unit
WRT
— "With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics.
PDF
— Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat)
GUI
— Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
QC
— Quality Control
ISO
— International Organization for Standardization
API
— Application Programming Interface
VCDU
— Virtual Channel Data Unit
FAQ
— Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak)
ASCII
— American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
RF
— Radio Frequency
PDR
— Preliminary Design Review
TBD
— To Be Determined
CDR
— Critical Design Review
GIS
— Geographic Information System
NCR
— Non-Conformance Report
EU
— European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
GPS
— Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
QA
— Center for Quality Assurance in International Education
TBC
— To Be Confirmed
ESA
— European Space Agency
RAM
— random-access memory
O-SPS
— Optical System Performance Simulator
QA4EO
— Quality Assurance for Earth Observation
CSA
— Canadian Space Agency
ITU
— International Telecommunication Union
ROI
— Region of Interest
GAMME
— GMES Harmonisation in a Multi Mission Environment
EC
— European Commission
RSS
— Root Sum Square
NOAA
— National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
CRC
— Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
IR
— Infrared
IDE
— Integrated Development Environment
I/O
— Input/Output
IFOV
— Instantaneous Field Of View
JPEG
— Joint Photographic Experts Group (24-bit image storage format)
COTS
— Commercial Off the Shelf Software
BER
— Bit-Error Rate
RMS
— root mean square (preferred over "RMS")
AU
— Astronomical Unit
AATSR
— Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
DL
— Dimensionless
EMC
— Electromagnetic Compatibility
CCSDS
— Consultative/Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
CSS
— Cascade Style Sheet
ITRF
— International Terrestrial Reference Frame
PRF
— Pulse Repetition Frequency
AOCS
— Attitude and Orbit Control System
DDD
— Detailed Design Document
IF
— Intermediate Frequency
NASA
— National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
LAC
— Local Area Coverage
PAR
— Photosynthetically Active Radiation
SAR
— synthetic aperture radar (satellite)
SPM
— Suspended Particulate Matter
MRD
— mission requirements document
NTFS
— New Technology File System
I/F
— Interface
ITS-90
— International Temperature Scale of 1990
JRC
— Joint Research Centre
XSD
— XML Schema Definition
SRR
— System Requirements Review
S/W
— Software
VC
— Virtual Channel
MMI
— Man-Machine Interface
UTM
— Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical Co-ordinate System)
EGSE
— Electrical Ground Support Equipment
TIFF
— Tag Image File Format
TS
— Technical Specification
QI
— Quality Indicator
RCP
— Rich Client Platform
RTC
— Real Time Clock
SDP
— Software Development Plan
LSB
— least-significant byte
RD
— Reference Document
UV
— Ultra Violet
NIR
— Near Infrared
EDAC
— Error Detection And Correction
TM
— Telemetry
DWH
— Data Warehouse
SPA
— Software Product Assurance
GFDL
— Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
AD
— Applicable Document
AOD
— Aerosol Optical Depth
NRT
— near real time
BOL
— Beginning of Life
HDF
— Hierarchical Data Format
VIS
— Visible
DEM
— Digital Elevation Model
UCAR
— University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
GAC
— Global Area Coverage
MERIS
— Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
SUHET
— Sentinel User Handbook and Exploitation Tools
SVP
— Software Verification Plan
CEOS
— Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
GNSS
— Global Navigation Satellite System
TC
— Telecommand
SEU
— Single Event Upset
SZA
— Solar Zenith Angle
SUM
— Software User Manual
S/C
— Spacecraft
CFI
— Customer Furnished Item
SPOT
— Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
UML
— Unified Modelling Language
SST
— Sea surface temperature
GDR
— Geophysical Data Record
MODIS
— Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MWR
— Microwave Radiometer
TT&C
— Telemetry, Tracking and Command
SME
— Small to Medium-sized Enterprise
LUT
— Look Up Table
MTF
— Modulation transfer function.
SEAWIFS
— Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
ICRF
— International Celestial Reference Frame
RAL
— Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
SVF
— Software Validation Facility
H/W
— Hardware
SPS
— System Performance Simulator
EO
— Earth Observation
SLR
— Satellite Laser Ranging
OZA
— Observation-Zenith Angle
APID
— Application Identification
SI
— Systeme International
RPE
— Relative Pointing Error
RA
— Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred)
LWIR
— Long-Wave Infrared
JAI
— Java Advanced Imaging
DAP
— Data Access Protocol
PSF
— Point Spread Function
LAI
— Leaf Area Index
WGS
— World Geodetic System
ETM
— Enhanced Thematic Mapper
ISPRS
— International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
MPPT
— Maximum Power Point Tracker
L1
— Level 1
VV
— Vertical Transmit, Vertical Receive
TAI
— Temps Atomique International
FOV
— Field-Of-View
GCP
— Ground Control Point
SWIR
— Short Wave Infrared
DVP
— Design and Verification Plan
NETCDF
— Network Common Data Format
FOS
— Flight Operations Segment
NEDT
— Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature
L2
— Level 2
MLE
— Maximum likelihood estimation
COV
— Coefficient of Variation
DJR
— Design Justification File
URD
— User Requirement Document
MTCI
— MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index
TOPSAR
— Terrain Observation with Progressive Scans SAR
USO
— UltraStable Oscillator
GEOTIFF
— Geographic Tagged Image File Format
EW
— Extra-Wide Swath
PA
— Product Assurance
SSH
— Sea Surface Height
DDF
— Design Definition File
QR
— Qualification Review
BEAM VISAT
— BEAM Visualisation and Analysis Tool
GODAE
— Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
HH
— Horizontal Transmit, Horizontal Receive
GSCDA
— GMES Space Component Data Access
VISCAL
— Visible Calibration
VH
— Vertical Transmit, Horizontal Receive
OBT
— On-Board Time
AIL
— Action Item List
UTC
— Universal Time Code
SLSTR
— Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
BBOX
— Bounding Box
CFS
— Canadian Forest Service
COSA
— Camera Optical Sub Assembly
GRD
— Ground Range Detected
PF-SC
— Processing Facility - Stand-alone Chain
JAR
— Java archive file
HV
— Horizontal Transmit, Vertical Receive
TSM
— Total Suspended Matter
XSVE
— X-band Subsystem Validation Equipment
ISVV
— Independent Software Verification and Validation
ARGANS
— Applied Research in Geomatics, Atmosphere, Nature and Space
UTF
— Uniform Transformation Format
GDEM
— Global Digital Elevation Model
AIT
— Assembly, Integration, and Testing
LRR
— Laser Retro-Reflector
ART
— Absolute Reference Time
TVC
— Thermal Vacuum Chamber
POD
— Precise Orbit Determination
NEDL
— Noise Equivalent Differential Luminance
OAIS
— Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System
SWH
— significant wave height
GEO
— Group on Earth Observations
L3
— Level 3
POO
— Position On Orbit
ADD
— Architecture Design Document
FRP
— Fire Radiative Power
SMU
— Satellite Management Unit
CDS
— Coordinated Data access System
FAPAR
— Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
FTS
— Fast Track Service
CDS-PPE
— CDS Post Processing Element
FPA
— Focal Plane Assembly
TVT
— Thermal Vacuum Test
ATBD
— Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document
CDH
— Control and Data Handling
CRAAS
— Centralized Routing Authentication and Authorisation Service
SRAL
— Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter
OLCI
— Ocean and Land Colour Instrument
PF
— Processing Facility
VCID
— Virtual Channel Identifier
CDS-SPR
— CDS System Performance and Reporting
EUMETSAT
— European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
BOA
— Bottom of Atmosphere
CDS-CI
— CDS Core Infrastructure
NDSI
— Normalised Difference Snow Index
COARDS
— Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service
AIV
— Assembly Integration and Verification
S-3
— Sentinel-3
SPF
— Single Point Failure
EEPROM
— Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory
TMM
— Thermal Mathematical Model
ADF
— Auxiliary Data Files
VIRTIS
— Visible and IR Thermal Imaging Spectrometer
GPM
— Generic Product Model
PDS
— Payload Data Segment
VAL
— Validation
GMES
— Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
TAS-F
— Thales Alenia Space - France
FBDAQ
— Flexible Dynamic Block Adaptive Quantization
IOCR
— In Orbit Commissioning Review
ESLS
— Expert Support Laboratories
DAM
— Data Access Management
IODD
— Input Output Data Definition Document
QWG
— Quality Working Group
VIMS
— Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
CDHS
— Control and Data Handling Subsystem
SAFE
— Standard Archive Format for Europe
NLW
— Normalised Water-leaving Radiance
NOMAD
— NASA Bio-optical Marine Algorithm Data Set
COG
— centre of gravity
ESRIN
— ESA Centre for Earth Observation
VGT
— Level 2 continuation of SPOT VEGETATION products
SISTER
— Scanning Infrared Sea surface Temperature Radiometer
PDGS
— Payload Data Ground Segment
MERSEA
— Marine Environment and Security for the European Area Integrated project
NAVATT
— Navigation and Attitude
S-1
— Sentinel-1
GHRSST
— GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
S-2
— Sentinel-2
CCS
— Command and Control Subsystem
HR
— High Resolution
ANX
— Ascending Node Crossing
NSSDC
— National Space Science Data Centre
VNIR
— Visible and Near Infra-Red
OGVI
— OLCI Global Vegetation Index
BT
— brightness temperature
CDOM
— Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter
RSTB
— RADARSAT-2 Toolbox
GSE
— GMES Service Element
AME
— Absolute Measurement Error
LRA
— Laser Retro-reflector Array
TRP
— Temperature Reference Point
UKMO
— UK Met Office
ECMWF
— European Centre for MediumRange Weather Forecasting
LST
— Land Surface Temperature
SLC
— Single Look Complex
FR
— Full Resolution
EEE
— Electrical Electronic and Electromechanical
EPM
— Earth Pointing Mode
TOA
— Top Of Atmosphere
OTCI
— OLCI Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index
NCML
— netCDF Markup Language
IDEAS
— Instrument Data Quality Evaluation and Analysis Service
MIRI
— Mid Infra-Red Instrument
NDVI
— Normalised Difference Vegetation Index
DAT
— Display and Analysis Tool
TB
— Thermal Balance
SSP
— Sub-Satellite Point
MWIR
— Medium Wave Infrared
EE
— Earth Explorer
PCD
— Product Confidence Data
TPD
— Test Procedures Document
SPH
— Specific Product Header
CDS-SCI
— CDS Services Coordinated Interface
ECSS
— European Cooperation for Space Standardisation
MR
— Medium Resolution
COSAR
— Complex SAR
ACP
— Atmospheric Correction Processor
MSI
— Multi-Spectral imaging Instrument
CLI
— Command-Line Interface
GIIG-ICD
— Generic IPF Interface Guidelines
MPH
— Main Product Header
ADS
— Auxiliary Data Set
NVRAM
— Non-Volatile RAM
THREDDS
— Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Service
CRR
— Computing Resources Requirements
SVR
— Software Validation Report
VAM
— Video Acquisition Module
ISAR
— Infrared SST Autonomous Radiometer
SSD
— Spatial Sampling Distance
CDL
— netCDF Common Data Language
DLR
— Germany's national research centre for aeronautics and space
OWI
— Ocean WInd field
GSPS
— GMES Service Projects
PDL
— Parameters Data List
QP
— Quad-Polarization
GRDM
— Ground Range Detected Multilooked
TDS
— Test Data Set
TNS
— Technical Notes
IPF
— Instrument Processing Facility
DND
— Canadian Department of National Defence
SV
— State Vector
MPC
— Mission Performance Centres
OEU
— OLCI Electronic Unit
BEST
— Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox
SWA
— Scrambling Window Assembly
BEAM
— Basic Envisat AATSR and MERIS Toolbox
MGVI
— MERIS Global Vegetation Index
SRDF
— Spectral Region Distribution Function
SAA
— Sun Azimuth Angle
NTC
— non time critical
CDM
— Coloured Dissolved Matter
BC
— Brockmann Consult GmbH
GPF
— Graph Processing Framework
AL
— Along Track
EOQC
— Earth Observation Quality Control
GIM
— Geocoded Incidence angle Mask
TDD
— Test Definition Document
RB
— Requirement Baseline
GCMS
— GMES Contributing Missions
OE
— Optimal Estimation
RR
— Reduced Resolution
DIL
— Deliverable Item Status List
WV
— Wave Mode
RVL
— surface Radial VeLocity
OC
— Ocean Colour
PDU
— Product Data Units
DPM
— Detailed Processing Model document
RSL
— Reference Slant Range
TPM
— Third Party Mission
MTL
— Mission Timeline
OAA
— Observational Azimuth Angle
SSB
— Sea State Bias
LRM
— Low Resolution Mode
CQC
— Coordinated Quality Control
STC
— Short Time Critical
DP
— Dual Polarisation
PT
— Product Tree
GSC
— GMES Space Component
MSS
— Mean Sea Surface
RAR
— Range Ambiguity Ratio
ACE
— Altimeter Corrected Elevation Model
IW
— Interferometric Wideswath
SSA
— Spatial Sampling Angle
CF
— Climate Format
ISP
— Instrument Source Packet
NEST
— Next ESA SAR Toolbox
PH
— Product Handbook
QL
— Qualification Load
OSW
— Ocean SWell spectra
SM
— Stripmap
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