APPENDIX A
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AgRISTARS Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys Through Aerospace Remote Sensing
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
CBWP Corn Blight Watch Program
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EROS Earth Resources Operations and Science
EUMETSAT European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EWS early warning system
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FEWS Famine Early Warning System
FEWS NET Famine Early Warning System Network
GIS geographic information system
GPM Global Precipitation Measurement mission
GPS Global Positioning System
HPS hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
IKONOS Commercial earth observation satellite collecting high-resolution multispectral and panchromatic imagery
LACIE Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment
MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOPITT Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere; instrument on Terra spacecraft measuring CO and CH4 in the troposphere
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGO non-governmental organization
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
NRC National Research Council
RFE rainfall estimates
SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome
SCLB southern corn leaf blight
SNV Sin Nombre virus (hantavirus strain)
SPOT Systeme Pour l’Observation de la Terre
SST sea surface temperature
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USGS/EDC U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Operations and Science Data Center
UN United Nations
VIIRS Visible Infrared Imager Raidometer Suite
VRT variable rate technology
WatER Water Elevation Recovery mission
WRSI Water Requirement Satisfaction Index
