| 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 Systm |
| 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 |
| 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 |
