| MEaSUREs | Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments |
| GHRSST | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
Satellite / Platform
| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| AQUA | Latin for water |
| Aquarius | Salt of the Earth |
| CYGNSS | Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| JASON | Jason was an argonaut in Greek mythology |
| MetOp-A | European Meteorological Operational-A |
| MetOp-B | European Meteorological Operational-B |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| NPOESS | Suomi National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
| OSTM | Ocean Surface Topography Mission |
| QuikSCAT | Quick Scatterometer |
| SPURS | Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study |
| SWOT | Surface Water & Ocean Topography |
| TERRA | Latin for Earth |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
Instruments
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Units |
| ASCAT | Advanced Scatterometer |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Units |
| MTSAT | Multi-functional Transport Satellites (Japan) |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager |
| TMI | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager |
| TMR | TOPEX Microwave Radiometer |
| VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |