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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.

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Acronyms

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

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.
 

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

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.
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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.
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