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- DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center
- DADS Data Archive and Distribution Center
- DARA Deutsche Agentur für RaumfahrtAngelegenheiten (Germany)
- DC Direct Current
- DCP Data Collection Platform
- DE Dynamic Explorer Satellite
- DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
- DEM Digital Elevation Model
- DGRF Definitive Geomagnetic Reference Field
- DIAL Differential Absorption Lidar
- DIS Data and Information System
- DISCOS ESA's Database and Information System Characterising Objects in Space
- DLR Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und raumfahrt
(Germany)
- DLS Dynamic Limb Sounder
- DMA Defense Mapping Agency
- DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
- DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid
- DNS Domain Naming System
- DoD Department of Defense
- DoE Department of Energy
- DoI Department of the Interior
- DOPLID DOPpler LIDar
- DORIS Determination d'Orbite et Radiopositionemant Integre par
Satellite
- (D)PR Dual Precipitation Radar
- DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
- DRS Data Relay Satellite
- DSB Direct Sounding Broadcast
- DSMC Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo
- DSN Deep Space Network
- DTM Drag Temperature Model
- DWS Doppler Wind Sensor
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- ECC Error Correcting Code
- ECMWF European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasts
- ECS EOSDIS Core System
- ECSS European Cooperation for Space Standardization
- EDA Electronic Design Automation
- EDAC Error Detection And Correction
- EDC EROS Data Center
- EDOS EOS Data and Operations System
- EGM Earth Gravity Model
- ELDR Enhanced Low Dose Rate
- E-LIDAR Experimantal Lidar
- ELV Expendable Launch Vehicle
- EMC Electro-Magnetic Compability
- EMOC EOSDIS Mission Operations Center
- ENSO El-Nino Southern Oscillation
- EOC EOS Operations Center
- EO-ICWG Earth Observations International Coordination Working
Group
- EOPM Electro-Optic Phase Modulation
- EOS Earth Observing System
- EOSAT Earth Observation SATellite company
- EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System
- EOSP Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter
- EPA Environmentl Protection Agency
- EPO EOS Project Office
- EPOP European Polar-Orbiting Platform
- EPS Encapsulated PostScript
- EQUIPOT EQUIlibrium POTential
- ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
- ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
- ERIM Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
- ERL Environmental Research Laboratory
- EROS Earth Resources Observation Systems
- ERS-1 European Remote-sensing Satellite-1
- ERTS-1 Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1
- ESA European Space Agency
- ESAD Earth Science and Applications Division (NASA HQ)
- ESD ElectroStatic Discharge
- ESMR Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
- ESOC European Space Operating Centre
- ESPIRE
- ESSC Earth Systems Sciences Committee
- ESTEC European Space research and TEchnology Centre
- ETM Enhanced Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
- EUMETSAT EUropean organization for the exploitation of
METeorological SATellites
- EUV Extreme UltraViolet
- eV Electron Volt
- EVA Extra-Vehicular Activity
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- FAIM Fully Analytical Ionospheric Model
- FCC Federal Communications Commission
- FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and
Technology
- FET Field Effect Transistor
- FIFE First ISLSCP Field Experiment
- FIRE First ISCCP Regional Experiment
- FM Frequency Modulation
- FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation
- FOT Flight Operations Team
- FOV Field Of View
- FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
- FPI Fabry-Perot Interferometry
- FST Field Support Terminal
- FTP File Transfer Protocol
- FY Fiscal Year
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- GAC Global Area Coverage
- GARP Global Atmospheric Research Program
- Gbps Gigabits per second
- GCC Global Change Category
- GCDIS Global Change Data and Information System
- GCM General Circulation Model
- GCOS Global Climate Observing System
- GCR Galactic Cosmic-Ray ion
- GCRP Global Change Research Program
- GCTE Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems program of the IGBP
- GEDEX Greenhouse Effect Detection EXperiment
- GEI Geocentric Equatorial Inertial coordinate system
- GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System
- GEO GEOgraphic coordinate system
- GEO GEostationary Orbit
- Geosat Geodesy Satellite (US Navy)
- GEWEX Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment
- Gflops Billions of floating point instructions per second
- GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
- GGI GPS Geoscience Instrument
- GGS Global Geospace Science
- GIF Graphical Interchange Format
- GIMMS Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
- GIS Geographic Information System
- GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- GLAS Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
- GLI Global Imager
- GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
- GMT Greenwich Mean Time
- GOES Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite
- GOES Geostationary Operational Earth Satellite
- GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
- GOMOS Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
- GOMR Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
- GOS Geomagnetic Observing System
- GPC Global Processing Center
- GPCP Global Precipitation Climatology Project
- GPS Global Positioning System
- GPSDR Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
- GRAM Global Reference Atmosphere Model
- GRGS GRoupe de Geodesie Spatiale
- GRIM
- GSE Geocentric Solar Ecliptic coordinate system
- GSEQ Geocentric Solar EQuatorial coordinate system
- GSFC Goddard Space Flight Centre
- GSM Geocentric Solar Magnetospheric coordinate system
- GTCE Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
- GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment
- GTO Geostationary (or geosynchronous) Transfer Orbit
- GTS Global Telecommunications System
- GUI Graphical User Interface
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- JFIF JPEG File Interchange Format
- JGM Joint Gravity Model
- JGR Journal Of Geophysical Research
- JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
- JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- LAGEOS LAser GEOdynamics Satellite
- LAN Local Area Network
- LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility
- LED Light Emitting Diode
- LEE Low Energy Electron (experiment)
- LEO Low Earth Orbit
- LEO Low Equatorial Orbit.
- LEOPOLD
- LEPA Low Energy Plasma Analyser
- LET Linear Energy Transfer
- LF LineFeed
- LINAC LINear ACcelerator
- LOX Liquid OXygen
- LT Local Time
- LUF Lowest Usable Frequency
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- MAH Model of the High Atmosphere
- MAG geoMAGnetic coordinate system
- MAP Middle Atmosphere Program
- MASER Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- MASTER Meteoroid And Space debris Terrestrial Environment Reference model
- MBU Multiple Bit Upset
- MCD Molecular Column Density
- MCM Multi-Chip Module
- MEO Medium Earth Orbit
- MET Marshall Engineering Thermosphere model
- MIME Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions
- MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
- MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MJD Modified Julian Date
- MLT Magnetic Local Time
- MODEM Meteoroid and Orbital DEbris Models
- MOS Metal-Oxide Silicon
- MPU
- MS MicroSoft
- MSIS Mass Spectrometer & Incoherent Scatter atmospheric model
- MSISE Mass Spectrometer & Incoherent Scatter Extended atmospheric model
- MSSL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
- MUF Maximum Usable Frequency
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- NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASCAP NASA Charging Analysis Program
- NCSA National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
- NCRP National Council on Radiation Protection and measurements
- NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
- NGS NSSDC Graphics System
- NIEL Non-Ionizing Energy Loss
- NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- NMC National Meteorological Center
- NMOS N-type Metal Oxide Semiconductor
- NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NPO-PM Scientific Production Association of Applied Mechanics
- NRL Naval Research Laboratory
- NSAPI NetScape Application Program Interface
- NSSDC National Space Science Data Centre
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- OBC On Board Computer
- OBP On Board Processing
- OGO polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
- ONO Oxide-Nitride-Oxide
- ORDEM ORbital DEbris Model
- OS Operating System
- OSSA Office Of Space Science and Applications, NASA
- OSU Ohio State University
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- P-MAX Maximum power
- PCL Printer Control Language
- PDT Pacific Daylight Time
- PI Principal Investigator
- PIND Particle Impact Noise Detection test
- PEM Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuit
- PM Post Meridiem (Latin: after midday), afternoon.
- PMD Permanent Molecular Deposition
- PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency
- PS PostScript
- PSI Paul Scherrer Institute
- PST Pacific Standard Time
- PSU Pyrotechnic Switching Unit
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- QML Qualified Manifacturing Line
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- RA Right Ascension
- RAM Random Access Memory
- RF Radio Frequency
- RFI Radio Frequency Interference
- ROM Read Only Memory
- RSI Research Systems Inc.
- RTG Radioisotope Thermo-electric Generator
- RTS Random Telegraph Signal
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- SAA South Atlantic Anomaly
- SAM Scanning Acoustic Microscopy
- SAPRE
- SCATHA Spacecraft Charging AT High Altitude mission
- SCR Silicon-Controlled Rectifier
- SEB Single-Event Burnout
- SED Single-Event Disturb
- SEE Single-Event Effect
- SEFI Single-Event Functional Interrupt
- SEGR Single-Event Gate-Rupture
- SEL Single-Event Latch-up
- SEP Solar Energetic Particle
- SESB Single-Event SnapBack
- SET Single-Event Transient
- SEU Single-Event Upset
- SHE Single Hard Error
- SLIM Semi-empirical Low-latitude Ionospheric Model
- SM Solar Magnetic coordinate system
- SMU Single-word Multiple-bit upset
- SOI Silicon On Insulator
- SOS
- SOW State Of Work
- SPC Statistical Process Control
- SPE Solar energetic Particle Event
- SPENVIS SPace ENVironment Information System
- SRAM Static Random Access Memory
- SRD Software Requirements Document
- SRP Solar Radiation Pressure
- SSI Server Side Include
- SSN SunSpot Number
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- TD Total Density model
- TDT Terrestrial Dynamical Time
- TEG Texas Earth Gravity model
- THB Temperature Humidity Bias
- TID Total Ionising Dose
- TIFF Tagged Image File Format
- TML Total Mass Loss
- TMR Triple-Modular Redundancy
- TN Technical Note
- TREND Trapped Radiation ENvironment Development
- TREP Terrestrial Radiation Environment Program
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- UCLA University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
- UI User Interface
- UNIX UNiversal Interactive eXecutive
- URD User Requirements Document
- URL Unified Resource Location
- URSI International Union of Radio Science
- USAF U.S. Air Force
- USSA U.S. Standard Atmosphere
- UT Universal Time
- UT University of Texas
- UTC Universal Time, Coordinated
- UV UltraViolet
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- VAX Virtual Address eXtended
- VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
- VMS Virtual Memory System
- VOC Open Circuit Voltage
- VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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- WATS Wind And Temperature Spectrometry
- WDVL Web Developer's Virtual Library
- WGS World Geodetic System earth gravitation models
- WWW World Wide Web
- WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
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