Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (2013)
Chapter: Appendix B: 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 |
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 |
