|
AATSR |
Advanced Along-track Scanning Radiometer
(ENVISAT) |
|
AC |
Across-Track
|
|
ACCC |
Average Cross
Correlation Coefficient
|
|
ADC |
Analog-To-Digital Converter |
|
ADS |
Annotation Data Set
|
|
ADSR |
Annotation Data Set Record |
|
ADU |
Analogue to Digital Unit |
|
AERONET |
Aerosol Robotic Network |
|
AGC |
Automatic Gain Control |
|
AISP |
Annotated Instrument
Source Packet
|
|
AL |
Along-Track
|
|
AMI |
Active Microwave Instrument
|
|
AMT |
Atlantic Meridian Transect |
|
AO |
Announcement of Opportunity |
|
AOI |
Announcement of Opportunity Instrument |
|
AP |
Alternating
Polarisation Mode
|
|
APB |
Alternating
Polarisation Browse Image
|
|
APG |
Alternating
Polarisation Mode Ellipsoid Geocoded image
|
|
API |
Application Process Identifier |
|
APM |
Alternation
Polarisation Medium-Resolution product
|
|
APP |
Alternating
Polarisation Precision Product
|
|
APS |
Alternating
Polarisation Mode Single-look
Complex image
|
|
APSM |
Antenna Power
Switching and Monitoring Subsystem
|
|
ARF |
Archiving Facility |
|
ASA |
Antenna Sub-Assembly
|
|
ASAR |
Advanced Synthetic
Aperture Radar
|
|
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
|
ASF |
Alaska SAR Facility |
|
ASS |
Antenna Services Subsystem
|
|
AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
|
BAQ |
Block Adaptive Quantisation
|
|
BB |
Black Body |
|
BOA |
Bottom Of the Atmosphere |
|
BT |
Brightness Temperature |
|
BUFR |
Binary Universal Form for meteorological data |
|
Cal/Val |
Calibration / Validation |
|
CASI |
Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager |
|
CCD |
Charge Coupled Device
|
|
CCC |
Cross Correlation Coefficient |
|
CCRS |
Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing |
|
CESA |
Control Electronics Sub-Assembly
|
|
CESAR |
Cold Atmospheric Emission Spectral Radiometer |
|
CFRP |
Carbon Fibre
Reinforced Plastic
|
|
CHAMP |
Comet Halley Active Monitoring programme |
|
CMC |
Centre Monitoring and Control element |
|
CNES |
Centre National
d'"É´udes des
T鬩communications, France |
|
COASTLOOC |
COAstal Surveillance Through Observation
of Ocean Colour |
|
CORINE |
Co-ordination of Information on the Environment |
|
CP |
Characterisation Parameter --also--
Control Point |
|
CRC |
Cyclic Redundancy Code |
|
CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation |
|
CSS |
Control Subsystem
|
|
CTM |
Chemical Transport Model |
|
CW |
Continuous Wave |
|
DAR |
Doppler Ambiguity Resolver
|
|
DCE |
Doppler Centroid Estimation 2.6.1.2.2.
|
|
DDKP |
Detailed Design Key Point |
|
DDT |
Data Dictionary Tool |
|
DEM |
Digital Elevation Model
|
|
DEP |
Doppler Estimation Processor |
|
DFT |
Discrete Fourier Transform |
|
DINSAR |
Differential
Interferometric SAR 1.1.5.4.4.
|
|
DLR |
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt ft und
Raumfahrt, Germany |
|
DMS |
Data Measurement Set |
|
DOAS |
Differential Optical Absorption
Spectrometre (SCIAMACHY) |
|
DORIS |
Doppler Orbitography and
Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite |
|
DS |
Data Set 2.3.2.5.
|
|
DSD |
Data Set Descriptor 2.3.2.4.
|
|
DSR |
Data Set Record 2.3.2.5.
|
|
DTRAR |
Distributed Target Range Ambiguity Ratio |
|
ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting |
|
ECOC |
Electrochemical Ozone Cell |
|
ECP |
Extracted Calibration Product
|
|
EDI |
ESA Developed Instrument |
|
EIH |
Extracted Instrument Header
|
|
ELHYSA |
Etude de
L'HYgrom鴲ie StrAtosph鲩que |
|
ENL |
Equivalent Number of Looks
|
|
ENVISAT |
ENVIronment SATellite |
|
EP |
Engineering Parameter |
|
ERS |
European Remote
Sensing Satellite
|
|
ESA |
European Space Agency |
|
ESABC |
Envisat Stratospheric Aircraft and
Balloon Campaign |
|
ESL |
Expert Support Laboratory |
|
ESOC |
European Space Operations Centre,
Darmstadt, Germany |
|
ESOV |
Earth Map and Swaths Visualisation tool |
|
ESRIN
|
ESA's Earth Observation Centre,
Frascati, Italy |
|
ESTEC |
European Space Research and Technology
Centre, Noordwijk, The Netherlands |
|
FBAQ |
Flexible Block
Adaptive Quantisation
|
|
FC |
False Colour
|
|
FCC |
False Colour Composite
|
|
FE |
Fixed Exponent Quantisation |
|
FEP |
Front End Processor |
|
FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform
|
|
FIR |
Finite Impulse Response |
|
FISH |
Fast In situ Stratospheric Hygrometre |
|
FM |
Frequency
Modulation (also Flight Model) |
|
FOS |
Flight Operations Segment ( on ground ) |
|
FOV |
Field Of View |
|
FOZAN |
Fast Ozone Analyser |
|
FTIR |
Fourier-Transform
Infrared Spectrometer |
|
FTS |
Fourier-Transform
Absorption Spectrometer |
|
FWHM |
Full Width at Half Maximum |
|
GADS |
Global Annotation Data Set
|
|
GCP |
Ground Control Point
|
|
GDR |
Geophysical Data Record |
|
GEC |
Geocoded Image
|
|
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
|
GM |
Global Monitoring Mode
|
|
GMB |
Global Monitoring Mode
Browse Image
|
|
GMI |
Global Monitoring Mode product
|
|
GOCE |
Gravity and steady-state Ocean
Circulation Explorer |
|
GOME |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
|
GOMOS |
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation
of the Stars |
|
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
|
GR |
Ground Range |
|
GRACE |
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
|
GRIB |
Gridded Binary Format (meteorological
data interchange format) |
|
GSRT |
Ground segment Reference Time |
|
GUV |
Ground-based Ultraviolet Radiometer |
|
HEX |
Hexadecimal Number Representation |
|
HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
|
HH |
Horizontal
Polarisation Transmitted/Horizontal
Polarisation Received
|
|
HKTML |
House Keeping Telemetry Data |
|
HR |
High Rate |
|
HV |
Horizontal
Polarisation Transmitted/Vertical
Polarisation Received
|
|
HWHM |
Half Width at Half Maximum |
|
Hz |
Hertz |
|
ICU |
Instrument Control Unit |
|
ID |
Identifier |
|
IDEFOV |
Instantaneous Detector Element Field of View |
|
IECF |
Instrument Engineering Calibration Facility |
|
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
|
IF |
Intermediate Frequency |
|
I/F |
Interface |
|
IFFT |
Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
|
|
IFOV |
Instantaneous Field of View |
|
IGDR |
Interim Geophysical Data Record |
|
ILS |
Instrument Line Shape |
|
IM |
Image Mode
|
|
IMB |
Image Mode Browse Image |
|
IMG |
Image Mode ellipsoid
Geocoded image
|
|
IMM |
Image Mode Medium
resolution image
|
|
IMP |
Image Mode Precision image
|
|
IMS
|
Image Mode Single-Look
Complex image
|
|
InSAR |
Interferometric
Synthetic Aperture Radar
|
|
IPC |
Inter-Process communication |
|
IPF |
Instrument Processing Facility |
|
I/Q |
In-Phase/Quadrature Channels
|
|
IR |
Incident Report --also -- InfraRed |
|
IRF |
Impulse Response Function |
|
IRW |
Impulse Response Width
|
|
ISAR |
Inverted Synthetic
Aperture Radar
|
|
ISLR |
Integrated Side Lobe Ratio.
|
|
ISP |
Instrument Source Packet
|
|
JPL |
Jet Propulsion Labratory |
|
kB |
kiloBytes (also: kBytes) |
|
LADS |
Location Annotation
Data Set
|
|
L1b |
Level 1b (product)
|
|
L2 |
Level 2 (product)
|
|
LCC |
Lambert Conformal
Conic map projection
|
|
LIDAR |
LIght Detection And Ranging |
|
LOS |
Line-Of-Sight |
|
LR |
Low Rate |
|
LSB |
Least Significant Bit (or Byte,
depending on context) |
|
LST |
Land Surface Temperature |
|
LSW |
Least Significant Word |
|
LUT |
Look-Up Table |
|
LVI |
Live Vegetation Index |
|
M-AERI |
Marine Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer |
|
MAVT |
MERIS & AATSR Validation Team |
|
MB |
MegaBytes (also: Mbytes) |
|
MCD |
Measurement Confidence Data
|
|
MLCC |
Multi-Look Cross Correlation |
|
MDA |
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates |
|
MDS |
Measurement Data Set
|
|
MDSR |
Measurement Data Set Record
|
|
MERIS |
MEdium-Resolution Imaging Specrometre |
|
MERC |
Mercator map projection
|
|
METEOSAT |
Meteorological Satellite |
|
MGVI |
MERIS Global
Vegetation Index |
|
MIPAS |
Michelson Interferometer for Passive
Atmospheric Sounding |
|
MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging Spectrometer |
|
MJD |
Modified Julian Day |
|
MLCC |
Multi-Look Cross Correlation
|
|
MODIS |
Moderate-Resolution Imagine Spectrometer |
|
MOE |
Medium Accuracy Orbit |
|
MPH |
Main Product Header 2.3.2.2.
|
|
MSB |
Most Significant Bit (or Byte, depending
on context) |
|
MSG |
Meteosat Second Generation |
|
MSW |
Most Significant Word |
|
MTF |
Modulation Transfer Function |
|
MWR |
Microwave Radiometer |
|
N/A |
Not Applicable |
|
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, USA |
|
NASDA |
National Space Development Agency, Japan |
|
NDSC |
Network for the Detection of
Stratospheric Change |
|
NESR |
Noise Equivalent Spectral Radiance |
|
NILU |
Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
|
NIR |
Near Infrared |
|
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
|
NRT |
Near Real Time
|
|
NSP |
National Systems Projection
|
|
NWP |
Numerical Weather Predication |
|
OBDH |
On-Board Data Handling |
|
OBR |
On-Board Recorder |
|
OBT |
On-Board Time |
|
OFL |
Off-Line
|
|
OL |
On Line |
|
OVID |
Optical Visible and near Infrared Detector |
|
PAC |
Processing and Archiving Centre |
|
PAR |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
|
PARC |
Polarimetric Active
Radar Calibrator
|
|
PCD |
Product Confidence Data
|
|
PDHS |
Payload Data Handling Station |
|
PDS |
Payload Data Segment (ENVISAT) |
|
PEAS |
Performance Evaluation Software |
|
PF |
Processing Facility |
|
PF-ASAR |
ASAR Processing Facility |
|
PF-HS |
Processing Facility Host Structure |
|
PGICD |
Payload to Ground Segment Interface
Control Document |
|
PI |
Principal Investigator |
|
POD |
Precise Orbit Determination |
|
POE |
Precise Orbit |
|
POLDER |
Polarisation and Directionality of
Earth'"s Reflectances |
|
PRF |
Pulse Repetition Frequency
|
|
PRI |
Precision Image
(ASAR) also Pulse Repetition Interval |
|
PRN |
Pseudo Random Noise |
|
PS |
Polar Stereographic
map projection
|
|
PSLR |
Peak Side Lobe Ratio |
|
PTI |
Pulse Transmission Interval |
|
PTR |
Point Target Response |
|
PTU |
Pressure Temperature Humidity |
|
QM |
Qualification Model |
|
Quad Pol Radar |
Quadrature
Polarisation Radar
|
|
R/D |
Range/Doppler SAR Algorithm 2.6.1.2.3.
|
|
RA-2 |
Radar Altimeter-2 |
|
RADAR |
Radio Detection And Ranging
|
|
RADARSAT |
RADAR SATellite (
developed by RADARSAT International, in
Canada ) |
|
RAL |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK |
|
RAR |
Real Aperture Radar
|
|
RAR MTF |
Real Aperture Radar Modulation Transfer Function |
|
RCS |
Radar Cross Section
|
|
RCMC |
Range Cell Migration Correction
|
|
RERV |
Radar Estimated Rain Volume |
|
RF |
Radio Frequency |
|
RFOV |
Reduced Field of View |
|
RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Chip |
|
RHI |
Radar Height Indicator
( also known as Range Height
Indicator )
|
|
RM |
Range Matched
|
|
RMS |
Root Mean Squared |
|
RMVT |
RA-2 / MWR Validation Team |
|
ROSAR |
Rotor-SAR
|
|
R/S |
Remote Sensing
|
|
RS |
Reed-Solomon (error correction) |
|
RR |
Reduced Resolution |
|
S+M |
Sign plus Magnitude
(fixed exponent) mode
|
|
SAFIRE |
Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Far
Infrared Emission |
|
SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar
|
|
SASM |
Synthetic Aperture
Strip Map
|
|
SBT |
Satellite Binary Time |
|
SBUV |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet |
|
ScanSAR |
Scanning SAR Imaging
Technique (for wide swath coverage)
|
|
SCI |
Stripline Continuity Indicator |
|
SCIAMACHY |
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometre
for Atmospheric Cartography |
|
SEASAT |
Sea Satellite (
developed by NASA, in the USA ) |
|
SeaWiFS |
Sea Wide Field-of-view Spectrometre |
|
SFA |
Steering Front Assembly |
|
SLADS |
Sub-sampled Location Annotation
Data Set (LADS) |
|
SLAR |
Side-Looking Aperture Radar
|
|
SLC |
Single Look Complex Image
|
|
SLR |
Satellite Laser Ranging |
|
SNR |
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
|
|
SOAZ |
Systè¥
d'"Analysis par Observations Z鮩thales |
|
SODAP |
Switch-On and Data Acquisition Phased |
|
SPCS |
State Plane
Co-ordinate System
|
|
SPECAN |
Spectral Analysis SAR Algorithm 2.6.1.2.4.
|
|
SPH |
Specific Product Header 2.3.2.3.
|
|
SPOT |
Satellite pour l'"Observation
de la Terre ( SPOT Image, in France ) |
|
SQ |
Summary Quality
|
|
SQADS |
Summary Quality
Auxiliary Data Set
|
|
SQADSR |
Summary Quality
Auxiliary Data Set Record
|
|
SR |
Slant Range
|
|
SR/GR |
Slant Range to Ground Range
|
|
SS |
Sub-Swath |
|
SSST |
Skin Sea Surface Temperature |
|
SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
|
STC |
Sensitivity Time Control
|
|
SWST |
Sampling Window Start Time |
|
SZA |
Sun Zenith Angle |
|
T/R |
Transmit/Receive |
|
TBC |
To Be Confirmed |
|
TBD |
To Be Determined ALSO To Be Defined |
|
TCIU |
Tile Control Interface Unit
|
|
TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
|
TM |
Transverse Mercator
map projection
|
|
TOA |
Top Of the Atmosphere |
|
TOAVI TOA |
Vegetation Index |
|
TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
|
TOPEX |
Topography Experiment for Ocean Circulation |
|
TRM |
T/R Modules |
|
TSS |
Tile Subsystem |
|
UPS |
Universal Polar Stereographic
|
|
USF |
User Service Facility |
|
USO |
Ultra Stable Oscillator |
|
UTC |
Universal Time Co-ordinated |
|
UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator
|
|
UV |
Ultraviolet |
|
VCDU |
Virtual Channel Data Unit |
|
VH |
Vertical Polarisation
Transmitted/Horizontal Polarisation Received
|
|
VIP |
Verification Input parameter |
|
VIS |
Visible |
|
VLBI |
Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
|
VMR |
Volume-Mixing Ratio |
|
VV |
Vertical Polarisation
Transmitted/ Vertical Polarisation Received
|
|
WAIS |
West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
|
WGS84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
|
WS |
Wide Swath Mode
|
|
WSB |
Wide Swath Browse Image
|
|
WSM |
Wide Swath
Medium-resolution image
|
|
WV |
Wave Mode
|
|
WVI |
Wave Mode SLC imagette
and Imagette Cross Spectra image
|
|
WVS |
Wave Mode Imagette
Cross Spectra image
|
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