Acronyms
ACRIM
Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
AMSR
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
API
application program interface
ARM
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE archive)
ASF
Alaska SAR Facility
ASP
Alaska SAR Processor
ASTER
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
AVHRR
Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
BOREAS
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
CERES
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
CGED
Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data (NRC)
CIESIN
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Networks
CIRES
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (University of Colorado)
COTS
commercial off-the-shelf
CZCS
Coastal Zone Color Scanner
DAAC
Distributed Active Archive Center
DAO
Data Assimilation Office (GSFC)
DEM
digital elevation model
DLT
digital linear tape
DMSP
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOE
Department of Energy
DVD
digital video disk
ECS
EOSDIS Core System
EDC
EROS Data Center
EOS
Earth Observing System
EOSDIS
EOS Data and Information System
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
ERBE
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
EROS
Earth Resources Observations Systems
ERS-1,2
European Remote Sensing Satellites 1 and 2
ESA
European Space Agency
ESDIS
Earth Science Data and Information System (Project Office)
ESE
Earth Science Enterprise (formerly Mission to Planet Earth)
ESIP
Earth Science Information Partner
FIFE
First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project Field Experiment
FIRE
First ISCCP Regional Experiment
FTE
full time equivalent
ftp
file transfer protocol
GCMD
Global Change Master Directory
GSFC
Goddard Space Flight Center
GTOPO30
Global 30 Arc-Second Elevation Data SetHDF
Hierarchical Data Format
IMS
Information Management System
ISCCP
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
IWG
Investigators Working Group (EOS)
JERS-1
Japanese Earth Remote-Sensing Satellite
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LaRC
Langley Research Center
LaTIS
Langley TRMM Information System
LBA
Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
MISR
Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer
MODIS
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOPITT
Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
MTPE
Mission to Planet Earth (renamed Earth Science Enterprise)
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NGDC
National Geophysical Data Center
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPP
Net Primary Production
NRC
National Research Council
NSCAT
NASA Scatterometer
NSF
National Science Foundation
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PGE
Product Generation Executable
PO.DAAC
Physical Oceanography DAAC (JPL)
PoDAG
Polar DAAC User Working Group (NSIDC)
SAGE
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SAP
Science Advisory Panel
SAR
synthetic aperture radar
SeaSat
Sea Satellite
SeaWiFS
Sea-Viewing Wide-Field-of-View Sensor
SEDAC
Socio-Economic DAAC (CIESIN)
SIR-C
Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C
SMMR
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SSM/I
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
TOMS
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOPEX/Poseidon
Ocean Topography Experiment
TOVS
Television and Infrared Observation Satellite Operational Vertical Sounder
TRMM
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
USGCRP
U.S. Global Change Research Program
UWG
User Working Group
VIRS
Visible Infrared Scanner
WDC
World Data Center
WWW
World Wide Web
