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| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BYU | Brigham Young University |
| CNES | Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DMAS | Data Management & Archive System |
| DN | Digital Number |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data Information System |
| ERS | European Remote Sensing Satellite |
| ESIP | Earth Science Information Partner |
| FOV | Field of View |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GAC | Global Area Coverage |
| GDAC | Global Data Assembly Center |
| GHRSST | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
| GDR | Geophysical Data Record |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HEFT | High Efficiency File Transfer |
| HRPT | High Resolution Picture Transmission |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| IFOV | Internal Field of View |
| IGDR | Interim Geophysical Data Record |
| IMS | Information Management System |
| IR | Infrared |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LAC | Local Area Coverage |
| LASP | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado |
| MCSST | Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature |
| MOC | Mission Operations Center |
| MODAPS | MODIS Adaptive Processing System |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NAVOCEANO | Naval Oceanographic Office |
| NCEP | National Center for Environmental Prediction |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NODS | NASA Ocean Data System |
| NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
| OVW | Ocean Vector Winds |
| OST | Ocean Surface Topography |
| PO.DAAC | Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
| POET | PO.DAAC Ocean ESIP Tool |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QuikSCAT | NASA Quick Scatterometer |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| SAFS | Standard Autonomous File Server |
| SCCOOS | Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System |
| SDR | Science Data Record |
| SDS | Scientific Data Set |
| SEAPAC | SeaWinds Processing and Analysis Center |
| SIS | Software Interface Specification |
| SSH | Sea Surface Height |
| SSHA | Sea Surface Height Anomaly |
| SSS | Sea Surface Salinity |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| SWH | Significant Wave Height |
| SWT | Science Working Team |
| TIROS-N | Television Infrared Observing Satellite Series N |
| TMR | TOPEX Microwave Radiometer |
| UM/RSMAS | University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated |
| WVC |
Wind Vector Cell |
