| NMP |
New Millennium Program |
| OLI |
Operational Land Imager |
| PAN |
Panchromatic |
| PF1 |
Poker Flat, Alaska (Part of the GSN) |
| QA |
Quality Assurance |
| RFI |
Request for Information |
| RGB |
Red, Green, Blue |
| SBRM |
Santa Barbara Remote Sensing |
| SCA's |
Sensor Chip Assemblies |
| SGS |
Svalbard, Norway (Part of the GSN) |
| SIC |
Silicon Carbide |
| SNR |
signal-to-noise ratio |
| SSG |
Sensor Systems Group, Inc. |
| SWIR |
Short Wavelength Infrared |
| TIN |
Taxpayer Identification Number |
| TRW |
Thompson Ramo Woolridge |
| UIUC |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| VNIR |
Visible and Near Infrared |
| WARP |
Wideband Advanced Recorder Processor |
| WFT |
Wide Field Telescope |
| WRS-2 |
World Reference System - 2 |