Appendix C Acronyms
ANSS
Advanced National Seismic System
ASAR
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
DNAG
Decade of North American Geology
DOE
United States Department of Energy
EAR
NSF Division of Earth Sciences
ERS
European Remote-Sensing Satellite
ESA
European Space Agency
GPS
Global Positioning System
InSAR
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
IRIS
Incorporated Research Institutions in Seismology
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
MRE
Major Research Equipment
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA
National Space Development Agency of Japan
NSF
National Science Foundation
NRC
National Research Council
PALSAR
Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
PBO
Plate Boundary Observatory
OBS
Ocean Bottom Seismometer
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCEC
Southern California Earthquake Center
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey