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Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Pages 90-92

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... Department of Defense Environmental Data Record E1 Nino-Southern Oscillation Earth Orbiter-1 Earth Observing System Earth Observing System Data and Information System Earth Observation Satellite Company Earth Radiation Budget Sensor/Satellite 90
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... APPENDIX E ESA ESE ETM+ EUMETSAT FOO FUSE GEM GLAS GLI GOES GPS GPSOS GSFC GTO HAPS HIRDLS HSB ICBM ICESat IDIQ IELV ILAS IPO JGOFS JMR JPL Landsat LEO LIS LMLV-3 Medlite MELV MEPS METOP MIDEX MISR MLS MLELV MODIS MOPITT MTF MTPE NASA NMP NOAA NPOESS NSCAT NWS ODUS OMPS 91 European Space Agency Earth Science Enterprise Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites Flight of Opportunity Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Graphite Epoxy Motor Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Global Imager Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Global Positioning System Global Positioning System Occultation Sensor Goddard Space Flight Center Geo-Transfer Orbit Hydrazine Auxiliary Propulsion System High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder Humidity Sounder for Brazil Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Intermediate-size Expendable Launch Vehicle Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer Integrated Program Office Joint Global Ocean Flux Study Jason Microwave Imager Jet Propulsion Laboratory Land Remote Sensing Satellite Low Earth Orbit Lightning Imaging Sensor Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle-3 Medium-Light Expendable Launch Vehicle Medium Expendable Launch Vehicle Medium-Energy Particle Spectrometer Meteorological Operational Polar Orbiter Mid-size Explorer Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer Microwave Limb Sounder Medium-Light Expendable Launch Vehicle (MedLite) Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere Modulation Transfer Function Mission to Planet Earth National Aeronautics and Space Administration New Millennium Program National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System NASA Scatterometer National Weather Service Ozone Dynamics Ultraviolet Spectrometer Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite
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... 92 THE ROLE OF SMALL SATELLITES IN NASA AND NOAA EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMS OSC Orbital Sciences Corporation PI Principal Investigator POES Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite POLDER Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectance PR Precipitation Radar QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer R&A Research and Analysis RPA-D Retarding Potential Analyzer-Driftmeter (or drift plasma sensor) RPU Repeater Processing Unit RSDO Rapid Spacecraft Development Office SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking SBRC Santa Barbara Research Center SeaWiFS Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor SELV Small Expendable Launch Vehicle SES Space Environmental Suite/Sensor SMEX Small Explorer SOLSTICE/SAVE Solar-Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment/Solar Atmospheric Variability Explorer SPARCLE Space Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment SPOT Systeme Pour ['Observation de la Terre SPU Signal Processing Unit SST Sea Surface Temperature SSTI Small Spacecraft Technology Initiative STEP Space Test Experiment Program SWIR Short-Wave Infrared TDI Time-Delay Integration TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer TIR Thermal Infrared TMI TRMM Microwave Imager TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer TOMS-EP Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Earth Probe TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission TSI Total Solar Irradiance TSIS/M Total Solar Irradiance Sensor/Monitor VIIRS Visible/Infrared Imaging/Radiometer Suite VIRS Visible Infrared Scanner VNIR Visible and Near Infrared
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Key Terms

  • earth observation
  • earth observing
  • observation satellite
  • satellite company
  • data record

  • radiation budget


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