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Suggested Citation: "Appendix B: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18447.

AeMS	Aeronautical Mobile Service
AeRNS	Aeronautical Radionavigation Service
AIS	Automatic Identification System
AMSR-E	Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth

CCD	charge-coupled device
CMB	cosmic microwave background

EESS	Earth Exploration-Satellite Service
EoR	Epoch of Reionization
FCC	Federal Communications Commission (U.S.)

FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency (U.S.)
FS	Fixed Service
FSS	Fixed-Satellite Service

GBT	Green Bank Telescope
GCOM	Global Change Observation Mission
GMI	GPM Microwave Imager
GMRT	Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
GPM	Global Precipitation Measurement (NASA)
GSO	geostationary orbit

HY-2	HaiYang mission

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IAU	International Astronomical Union
IMT	International Mobile Telecommunications
ITU	International Telecommunication Union

LOFAR	Low-Frequency Array
LWA	Long Wavelength Array

MetSat	meteorological satellites
MMSS	Maritime Mobile-Satellite Service
MS	Mobile Service
MSS	Mobile-Satellite Service
MWA	Murchison Widefield Array

NAE	National Academy of Engineering (U.S.)
NAS	National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)

NRC	National Research Council (U.S.)
NSF	National Science Foundation (U.S.)
NWP	numerical weather prediction

PAPER	Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization
PPDR	broadband public protection and disaster relief

RAS	Radio Astronomy Service
RFI	radio frequency interference

SAR	synthetic aperture radar
SMAP	Soil Moisture Active/Passive mission
SMOS	Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission
SRR	short-range radar
SRS	Space Research Service

TRMM	Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

VLA	Very Large Array
VLBA	Very Long Baseline Array

WAIC	wireless avionics intra-communications
WRC	World Radiocommunication Conference

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