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Chapter 5
Glossary

5.1 List of acronyms

AILS: Apodized Instrument Line Shape (i.e. Instrument Line Shape after apodization)
AATSR: Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer
ADC: Analog to Digital Converter
ADS: Annotated Data Set
ADSR: Annotated Data Set Record
AOCS: Attitude and Orbit Control System
ASU: Azimuth Scan Unit
ATSR: Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
CBA: Calibration Blackbody Assembly 3.1.
CBB: Calibration Black Body 3.1.
CCM: Cross-Correlation Method
DS: Deep Space
DSD: Data Set Descriptors 2.4.3.2.
DSR: Data Set Record
DSS: Deep Space Simulator
ECMWF: European Center for Medium range Weather Forecast
ENVISAT: Environmental satellite
ERS: European Remote Satellite
ESP:Electronics Support Plate 3.1.
ESU: Elevation Scan Unit 3.1.
FCA: FPS Cooler Assembly 3.1.
FCE: Focal-plane Cooler Electronics
FCE: Fringe Count Error 2.4.3.1.9.
FEO: Front End Optics 3.1.
FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
FOV: Field of View
FPS: Focal Plane Subsystem 3.1.
FTS: Fourier Transform Spectrometer 1.1.4.1.1.
FWHM: Full Width at Half Maximum
GADS: Global Annotated Data Set
GOMOS: Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
ICE: Instrument Control Electronics 3.1.
IFFT: Inverse Fast Fourier Transform
IFOV: Instantaneous Field of View
IGM: Interferogram
ILS: Instrumental Line Shape (see also here)
IMK: Institute for Meterology and Climate Research (Karlsruhe, Germany)
INT: Interferometer 3.1.
LBL: Line-by-line (method for computing absorption cross-sections)
LISA: Limb Sounder of the Atmosphere
LOS: Line Of Sight
LTE: Local Termodynamic Equilibrium
LUT: Look-Up-Table
MDS: Measurement Data Set
MDSR: Measurement Data Set Record
MERIS: MEdium Resolution Imaging Specrometer
MIE: MIPAS Electronics module 3.1.
MIO: MIPAS Optical module 3.1.
MIPAS: Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding
MPD: Maximum Path Difference 5.3.2.
MPD: MIPAS Power Distribution unit
MPH: Main Product Header 2.4.3.2.
MW: Microwindow
NESR: Noise Equivalent Spectral Radiance
NL: Non Linearity 2.4.3.1.10.
NRT: Near Real Time
OCB: Blackbody Optical Calibration facility
OCF: Optical Calibration Facility
ODS: Optical-path Difference Sensor 3.1.
OFM: Optimized Forward Model
OM: Occupation Matrix
OPD: Optical Path Difference
ORM: Optimized Retrieval Model
PAW: PreAmplifier Warm 3.1.
PC: PhotoConductive
PDS: Payload Data Segment
PFM: Peak Finding Method
PLM: Payload Module
PRT: Platinum Resistance Thermometer
PV: PhotoVoltaic
RAM: Random Access Memory
RFM: Reference Forward Model
RMS: Root Mean Squared
RSL: Radiometrically and Spectrally and Locally calibrated
SCIAMACHY: Scanning Imaging Absoprtion Spectrometer for Atmopsheric Chartography
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
SPC: Spectrum
SPE: Signal processing electronics 3.1.
SPH: Specific Product Header 2.4.3.2.
UTC: Universial Time Coordinated
VCM: Variance Covariance Matrix
VMR: Volume Mixing Ratio
WGS84: World Geodetic System 1984
ZPD: Zero Path Difference

Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry

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