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Appendix B: Acronyms
Pages 61-64

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... B Acronyms 3D three dimensional AIS automatic identification system ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array AMR-2 Advanced Microwave Radiometer-2 AMSR2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSU-A Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A APEX Atacama Pathfinder Experiment ARO Arizona Radio Observatory ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar ASCAT Advanced Scatterometer ASM Applications Specific Message ATMS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (JPSS) CAMLS Compact Adaptable Microwave Limb Sounder CEPT European Post and Telecommunications Conference CITEL Inter-American Telecommunications Commission CIWSIR Cloud Ice Water Sub-millimetre Imaging Radiometer CMB cosmic microwave background CS carbon monosulfide DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DOD Department of Defense DSM dynamic spectrum management 61
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... GPS Global Positioning System GSO geostationary orbit HAPS High Altitude Platform Stations HERA Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array HY-2A Second-generation ocean observation/monitoring satellite series (China) ICI Ice Cloud Imager IMT International Mobile Telecommunications ITU International Telecommunication Union JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JCMT James Clark Maxwell Telescope JPSS Joint Polar Satellite System LLAMA Large Latin American Millimeter Array LOFAR Low Frequency Array MADRAS Microwave Analysis and Detection of Rain and Atmospheric Structures MASTER Millimetre-wave Acquisitions for Stratosphere/ Troposphere Exchange Research
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... SPT South Pole Telescope SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imager SSMIS Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder STEAM-R Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange and Climate Monitor-Radiometer TEC total electron content TWICE Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud ICE
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... 64 WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2019 VDES VHF Data Exchange System VLA Very Large Array WAS wireless access system WRC World Radiocommunication Conference
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