Earth Science and Applications from Space: Urgent Needs and Opportunities to Serve the Nation (2005)
Chapter: Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACRIM
Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
APS
Advanced Polarimetric Sensor
CALIPSO
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CCSP
Climate Change Science Program
CDR
climate data record
CFC
chlorofluorocarbon
CMIS
Conical Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder
EOS
Earth Observing System
ERB
Earth Radiation Budget
ERBS
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
ESSP
Earth System Science Pathfinder
FY
fiscal year
GEOSS
Global Earth Observing System of Systems
GIFTS
Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer
GOES
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOES-R
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (the next generation of GOES satellites)
GPM
Global Precipitation Measurement (mission)
GPS
Global Positioning System
GRACE
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
IBEX
Interstellar Boundary Experiment
InSAR
interferometric synthetic aperture radar
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
JAXA
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LDCM
Landsat Data Continuity Mission
lidar
light detection and ranging (laser radar)
MTPE
Mission to Planet Earth
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NPOESS
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP
NPOESS Preparatory Program
NRC
National Research Council
NSCAT
NASA Scatterometer
OCO
Orbiting Carbon Observatory
OLI
Operational Land Imager
OSTM
Ocean Surface Topography Mission
OSTP
Office of Science and Technology Policy
R&A
research and analysis
SLC
scan line corrector
SORCE
Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
SPARCLE
Space Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment
TIM
Total Irradiance Monitor
TRMM
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
