Appendix A
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ALOS
Advanced Land Observing Satellite
ASAR
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ESA)
CES
Committee on Earth Studies
DEM
Digital elevation model
EOS
Earth Observing System
EOSDIS
Earth Observing System Data and Information System
ERS
Earth Resources Satellite
ESA
European Space Agency
ESE
Earth Science Enterprise
ESIP
Earth Science Information Partners
GPS
Global Positioning System
HH
Radar horizontal polarized transmission, horizontal polarized reception
IGOS
Integrated Global Observing Strategy
JERS
Japan's Earth Resources Satellite
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MITI
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OES
Office of Earth Science (NASA; formerly Office of Mission to Planet Earth)
PALSAR
Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (Japan)
RAR
Real aperture radar
SAR
Synthetic aperture radar
SIR
Shuttle Imaging Radar
SRL
Shuttle Radar Laboratory
SRTM
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
TIR
Thermal infrared
VNIR
Visible near-infrared
VV
Radar vertical polarized transmission, vertical polarized reception
