Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program (2007)
Chapter: Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations
D
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACE Applications, Commercial, Education
ACT Applied Coherent Technologies
AGRISTARS Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys Through Aerospace Remote Sensing
ASP Applied Sciences Program
AVHRR advance very high resolution radiometer
CCRI Climate Change Research Institute
CCSP Climate Change Science Program
CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention
CESAS Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space
CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability
CSC Coastal Services Center
CSCOR Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
CSS decision-support system
CVC Climate Variability and Change
DAAC Distributed Active Archive Centers
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DOE Department of Energy
DOI Department of Interior
DOT Department of Transportation
DSS decision-support system
ECOHAB Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
EIS Environmental Impact Statements
EOS Earth Observing System
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EROS Earth Resources Observation Systems
ERTS Earth Resource Technology Satellite
ESE Earth Science Enterprise
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FAWG focus area working groups
FCA Full Cost Accounting
FEWS Famine Early Warning System
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
GB gigabyte
GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems
GoM Gulf of Mexico
GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
HABHRCA Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
IEOS Interagency Earth Observing System
IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System
ITO Interagency Transition Office
IWG ESA Interagency Working Group in Earth Science Applications
JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
LACIE Large Area Crop Inventory Program
MMS Mineral Management Service
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imagery Spectroradiometer
MOU memorandum of understanding
MPAR Metrics Planning and Reporting System
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEP National Center for Environmental Prediction
NEON National Ecological Observatory Network
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NIMA National imagery and Mapping Agency
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOPC National Orthophoto Program Committee
NRC National Research Council
NSGIC National States Geographic Information Council
NSPIRES NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System
NWS National Weather Service
OCS Outer Continental Shelf
ORION Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network
OSIP Operational Satellite Improvement Program
OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment
OUA Office of University Affairs
PART Program Effectiveness Rating Tool
PECAD Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division
POC Point of Contact
R&O Research and Operations
R20 Research to Operations
REACT Rapid Environmental Assessment and Composition Tool
REASoN Research, Education, and Applications Solution Network
ROSES Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
S&T Science & Technology
SMD Science Mission Directorate
TB terabyte
TM Thematic Mapper
UAV unmanned aerial vehicles
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USBoR U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USGS EDC U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center
