Landsat Acronyms
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0R | Zero Reformatted Data |
3DEP | 3D Elevation Program |
6H | Band 6 - high gain |
6L | Band 6 - low gain |
6S | Second Simulation of a Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum |
A&A | Authorization and Authentication Archive and Access Associate Administrator |
A&E | Access and Exploration |
A&P | Archive and Production |
A&P OPS | Archive and Production Operations |
A/D | Analog/Digital |
AA | Active Archive Alternative Analysis Associated Administrator |
AAC | Archive Advisory Committee |
AADP | Active Archive Data Package |
AAG | Association of American Geographers |
AAOS | Albers Automatic Ordering System |
AAR | After-Action Report |
AAS | Anomaly Analysis Subsystem |
AATHom | Average Across-Track Homogeneity |
ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager |
ABML | As-Built Materials List |
ABPL | As-Built Parts List |
ABS | Absolute |
AC | Alternate Current Archive Cache Actual Cost |
ACA | Antenna Control Assembly |
ACCA | Automated Cloud Cover Assessment Actual Cloud Cover Average |
ACCESS | Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science |
ACIX | Atmospheric Correction Intercomparison eXercise |
ACK | Acknowledgement |
ACL | Access Control List |
ACM | AWS Certificate Manager |
ACQ | Acquired Scenes Report |
ACRES | Australian Center for Remote Sensing |
ACS | Attitude Control System |
ACIO | Associate Chief Information Officer |
ACSG | Atmospheric Composition Subgroup |
ACSLS | Automated Cartridge System Library Software |
ACTHom | Average Cross-Track Homogeneity |
ACU | Antenna Control Unit |
ACWP | Actual Cost of Work Performed |
AD | Active Directory Associate Director |
ADA | Angular Displacement Assembly Attitude Displacement Assembly |
ADAT | Application and Data Assessment |
ADC | After DC Restore Ancillary Data Corrector Analog-to-Digital Conversion |
ADD | Algorithm Description Document |
ADF | Ancillary Data File |
ADFS | Active Directory Federation Services |
ADIC | Advanced Digital Information Corporation |
ADM | Administrative Message |
ADML | As-Designed Materials List |
ADP | Ancillary Data Preprocessor |
ADPL | As-Designed Parts List |
ADS | Attitude Displacement Sensors Angular Displacement Sensor Archive Data Stager |
ADSA | Attitude Displacement Sensor Assembly |
ADVP | Algorithm Development and Verification Plan |
AE | Archive Element |
AEA | Albers Equal Area |
AEC | Aerosol Extinction Coefficient |
AEM | Auxiliary Electronics Module |
AERONET | Aerosol Robotic Network |
AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
AETD | Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate |
AFB | United States Air Force Base |
AFM | Anomalous Frame Manager |
AFOLU | Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use |
AFOV | Angular Field of View |
AFWA | Air Force Weather Agency |
AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
AGE | Automated Ground Equipment |
AGRI | Australian Geographic Reference Image |
AGS | Alaska Ground Station |
AGU | American Geophysical Union |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
AI&T | Assembly, Integration, and Test |
AIM | Algorithm Integration Meeting |
AIP | Archival Information Package Annex Implementation Plan |
AIS | Automated Information Security |
AIT | Algorithm Implementation Team |
AJAX | Asynchronous Java Script and XML |
ALG | Application Layer Gateway |
ALI | Advanced Land Imager |
ALIAS | Advanced Land Image Assessment System |
AM | Artifact Mask or Analytical Modeler |
AMI | Amazon Machine Image |
AMP | Allocation Management Planner Asset Management Plan |
AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
AMTS | Asset Management Tracking System |
AN | Ascending Node |
ANC | Ancillary File |
ANG | Angle band coefficients file extension |
ANGCF | Angle Coefficient |
ANGSTT | Australian National Ground Segment Technical Team |
ANN | Annotation File |
ANS | Alerts and Notifications |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
ANSS | Advanced National Seismic System |
ANTLR | Another Tool for Language Recognition |
AO | Authorization Official Authorizing Official |
AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
AOI | Area of Interest |
AOS | Acquisition of Signal Arrival On-Site Automated Ordering System Advanced Orbiting Systems |
AOT | Aerosol Optical Thickness |
APAC | Acquisition Procurement Advisory Council |
API | Application Programming Interface |
APID | Application Identification |
APMC | Agency Program Management Council |
APO | Accountable Property Officer |
APU | Accuracy, Precision, and Uncertainty |
AQ | Advanced Queuing |
AQPSK | Asynchronous Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
AR | Archive or Axial Ratio Acceptance Review Aquatic Reflectance |
ARB | Architecture Review Board Anomaly Review Board |
ARC | Advanced Research Computing |
ARD | Analysis Ready Data |
ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
ARN | Amazon Resource Name |
ARP | Anomaly Resolution Plan |
ARS | Agricultural Research Service |
ART | Anomaly Resolution Team |
AS | Archive Server |
ASA | Archive Server Application Alice Springs [Station] Australia Australian Space Agency |
ASB | Administrative Services Branch |
ASC | Architecture Scorecard |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASD | Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc. |
ASGUI | Archive Server Graphical User Interface |
ASHRAE | American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning |
ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
ASIC3 | Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change |
ASL | Amazon States Language |
ASM | Attached Sync Marker Automatic Storage Management |
ASN | Alice Springs Ground Station Australian Network |
ASPRS | American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
ASQC | American Society for Quality Control |
AST | Active Scan Time, Architecture Study Team |
ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection |
ASTER GED | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Global Emissivity Dataset |
ASTM | American Society for Testing of Materials |
ASW | Astrodynamics Support Workstation |
AT | Along Track |
AT-ACCA | Artificial Thermal Automated Cloud Cover Assessment |
ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
ATCS | Absolute Time Command Sequence |
ATHom | Along-Track Homogeneity |
ATK | Alliant Techsystems |
ATL | Automated Tape Library |
ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
ATO | Authority to Operate |
ATP | Authority to Proceed |
ATRAN | Atmospheric Transmittance Layer |
ATS | Absolute Time Sequence Automatic Transfer Switch |
ATT | Authorization to Test |
AU | Astronomical Units |
AUI | Analyst User Interface |
AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave |
AVIRIS | Airborne Visible / Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
AVPD | Avtec Programmable Demodulator |
AVT | Algorithm Verification Test |
AWESH | Automated Water Extent Shadow |
AWG | Architecture Working Group |
AWiFS | Advanced Wide-Field Sensor |
AWM | Analytical Workspace Manager |
AWS | Amazon Web Services |
B&A | Billing & Accounting |
B1 | Build 1 |
B2B | Band-to-Band |
B2BCal | Band-to-Band Calibration |
BA | Billing and Accounting Burned Area |
BAA | Broad Agency Announcement |
BAC | Budget at Completion |
BAD | Block Address Data |
BAE | British Aerospace Engineering Company |
BAI | Burned Area Index |
BAER | Burned Area Emergency Response |
BASIS+ | Budget and Science Information System Plus |
BBC | Blackbody Calibrator |
BBFTP | Large File Transfer Protocol |
BBOX | Bounding Box |
BC | Best Case |
BCD | Binary-Coded Decimal |
BCH | Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem Error Detection and Correction |
BCISO | Bureau Chief Information Security Officer |
BCR | Baseline Change Request |
BCWP | Budgeted Cost of Work Performed |
BCWS | Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled |
BD | Band |
BDA | Bulk Download Application |
BDWA | Bulk Download Web Application |
BER | Bit Error Rate |
BERT | Bit Error Rate Test |
BG | Build Guide |
BGF | Build GPR Files |
BI | Bilinear Interpolation |
BIA | Business Impact Analysis Business Impact Assessment Bureau of Indian Affairs |
BIFF | Bad Interval File Fix |
BIH | Bureau International de l'Heure |
BIL | Band Interleaved by Line |
BIMSTEC | Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation |
BIP | Band Interleaved by Pixel |
BIP2 | Band Interleaved by Pixel Pair |
BIS | Bureau of Industry and Security |
BITSM | Bureau Information Technology Security Manager |
BJC | Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Ground Station |
BKT | Bangkok, Thailand Ground Station |
BLM | Bureau of Land Management |
bLMOC | Backup Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center |
BME | Brouwer-Lyddane Mean Element |
BMO | Business Management Office |
BMOC | Backup Mission Operations Center |
BMOE | Backup Mission Operations Element |
BN | Background Noise |
BNC | Bayonet Neill-Concelman |
BOC | Budget Object Class |
BOE | Basis of Estimate |
BOM | Bill of Materials |
BP | Bias Parameter Burn Probability |
BPA | Blanket Purchase Agreement |
BPAL | Best Practices Asset Library |
BPDU | Bitstream Protocol Data Unit |
BPF | Bias Parameter File |
BPFAOS | BPF Automatic Ordering System |
BPG | Bias Parameter Generator |
bps | Bits per Second |
BPSK | Biphase Shift Keying |
BQA | Quality Assessment Band |
BRAA | Band Registration Accuracy Assessment |
BRAT | Bit Rot Assessment Tool |
BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
BRDF-n | Normalized Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
BRDF-s | Spectral Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
BRF | Bidirectional Reflectance Factor |
BRIDGE | Big Reprocessing Initiative Data Gap Environment |
BRTS | Bilateration Ranging Transponder System |
BSP | Best Security Practices |
BSQ | Band Sequential |
BSSC | Bit Synchronizer / Signal Conditioner |
BSTAR | Drag-Related Parameter in the NORAD Two-Line Element |
BSU | Baseband Switching Unit |
BT | Brightness Temperature |
BTC | Bench Test Cooler |
BTF | Ball Test Facility |
BTI | Blank Tape Interface |
BTL | Boot Loader |
BUI | Bumper mode User Interface |
BUTST | Bureau Unix Technical Support Team |
BVR | Boast Voltage Regulator |
BWTST | Bureau Windows Technical Support Team |
C | Centigrade |
C&A | Certification and Accreditation |
C&DH | Command and Data Handling |
C&T | Command and Telemetry |
C&T DB | Command and Telemetry Database |
C0 | Coefficient 0 |
C1 | Coefficient 1 Collection 1 |
C1L1 | Collection 1 Level 1 |
C1L1RT | Collection 1 Level 1 Real Time |
C1L2 | Collection 1 Level 2 |
C1L2Alb | Collection 1 Level 2 Albers |
C2 | Coefficient 2 or Collection 2 |
C2L1 | Collection 2 Level 1 |
C2L1RT | Collection 2 Level 1 Real Time |
C2L2 | Collection 2 Level 2 |
C2L2Alb | Collection 2 Level 2 Albers |
C3S | NPOESS Command, Control, and Communications Segment |
Ca | Chlorophyll-a |
CA | Conjunction Assessment Control Account Cost Account |
CAB | Change Advisory Board |
CADU | Channel Access Data Unit |
CAGE | Commercial and Government Entity |
CAL | Calibration Data |
Cal/Val | Calibration/Validation |
CALCON | Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing Annual Meeting |
CalCR | Calibration Collection Request |
CalManWG | Calibration Maneuver Working Group |
CALTest | Calibration/Validation Test |
CAM | Control Account Manager Command Authorization Meeting Communications Security Account Manager |
CAMEL | Combined ASTER MODIS Emissivity over Land |
CAOS | Collection Automatic Ordering System |
CAP | Cartridge Access Port Control Account Plan |
CAPE | Collection Activity Planning Element |
CAPERD | CAPE Requirements Document |
CARA | Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis |
CARD | Constraints and Restrictions Document |
CARD4L | CEOS ARD for Land |
CASA | Cloud and Cloud Shadow Assessment |
CaTT | Command and Telemetry Transceiver |
CA-WAD | Cost Account Work Authorization Document |
CBA | Cost-Benefit Analysis |
CBB | Contract Budget Base |
CBC | Cipher Block Chaining |
CBERS | China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite |
CBG | Configuration and Build Guide |
CBLCM | Chesapeake Bay Land Change Model |
CBN | Cuiaba [Brazil] Earth Station |
CBS | Commission for Basic Systems |
CC | Cubic Convolution Computer Compatible Tape Cloud Cover |
CCA | Cloud Cover Assessment Clinger-Cohen Act |
C-CAP | Coastal Change Analysis Program |
CCB | Configuration Control Board |
CCD | Charge-Coupled Device Continuous Change Detection |
CCDC | Continuous Change Detection and Classification |
CCE | Cryocooler Electronics |
CCI | Controlled Cryptographic Item |
CCL | Commerce Control List |
CCM | Cloud Cover Manager |
CCMC | Community Coordinated Modeling Center |
CCMS | Combined Cache Management Subsystem |
CCOH | Cost Center Overhead |
CCP | Configuration Change Process Contamination Control Process Cloud Cover Prediction |
CCR | Configuration Change Request |
CCRS | Canada Center for Remote Sensing |
CCS | COI Cleanup System Confirmed Contact Schedule Constellation Coordination System |
CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
CCT | Computer Compatible Tape Credit Card Transaction |
CCU | Charge Control Unit |
CD | Change Directory Compact Disk Cooler Door |
CDB | Centralized Database |
CDBS | Centralized Database System |
CDE | Common Desktop Environment |
CDED | Canadian Digital Elevation Dataset |
CDEM | Canadian Digital Elevation Model |
CDH | Command and Data Handling |
CDI | Capture Device Identifier |
CDIST | Distance to Cloud |
CDL | Cropland Data Layer |
CDLR | Command Data Loss Report |
CDM | Conjunction Data Message |
CDMS | Carrier Doppler Measurement System |
CDN | Content Delivery Network |
CDR | Critical Design Review Calibration Data Record Climate Data Records |
CDRL | Contract Data Requirements List Command Data Loss Report |
CD-ROM | Compact Disk-Read Only Memory |
CDS | Coded Data Segment Comprehensive Discrepancy System |
CDT | Central Daylight Time CPF Distribution Tool |
CE | Circular Error Cognizant Employee |
CE90 | Circular Error 90 |
CEC | Cation Exchange Capacity |
CED | Confirmed Event Details |
CentOS | Community Enterprise Operating System |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
CER | Cost Estimating Relationship |
CERR | Critical Event Readiness Review |
CERT | Community Emergency Response Team |
CES | Cost Element Structure |
CF | Correction Factor Cloud Fraction Cloud Formation |
CFC | Contact Forecast Confirmation Cloud Fraction Climatology |
CFDP | CCSDS File Delivery Protocol |
CFL | Conflict Notice |
CFMask | C version of Fmask |
CFP | Cold Focal Plane |
CFPA | Cold Focal Plane Array Cold Focal Plane Assembly |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations Contact Forecast Request |
CFT | Cloud Formation Template |
CGB | Calculated Gains and Biases |
CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
CGMS | Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites |
CGSe | CuGaSe2 |
CHIME | Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment |
CHS | Cloud Hosting Solutions |
CI | Configuration Item Continuous Integration |
CI/CD or CICD | Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment |
CIA | Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability |
CIB | Controlled Image Base |
CIC | Computer Interrupt Code |
CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing CRSSP Imagery Derived Requirements |
CIFS | Common Internet File System |
CIIL | Configuration Item Identifier List |
CIL | Critical Items List |
CIO | Chief Information Officer |
CIRC | Computer Incident Reporting Center Compact Infrared Camera |
CIS | Center for Information Security |
CISO | Chief Information Security Officer |
CISSP | Certified Information Systems Security Professional |
CITT | Center Information Technology Team |
CIU | Controls Interface Unit |
CLASS | NOAA Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System |
CLCW | Command Link Control Word |
CLI | Command Line Interface |
CLOB | Character Large Object |
CLR | Combined Labor Rate Contractor Labor Rate |
CLTU | Command Link Transmission Unit |
CLU | Climate and Land Use |
cm | Centimeter |
CM | Configuration Management Center of Mass |
CMA | Climate Modeling Grid - Aerosol Chinese Meteorological Administration |
CMB | Change Management Board |
CMC | Center Management Council |
CMD | Command |
CME | Coronal Mass Ejection |
CMG | Climate Modeling Grid |
CMIP | Cloud and Moisture Imagery Product |
CMIPC | Cloud and Moisture Imagery Product CONUS |
CMIPF | Cloud and Moisture Imagery Product Full Disk |
CMIX | Cloud Masking Intercomparison eXercise |
CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
CMMI | Capability Maturity Model Integration |
CMO | Configuration Management Office |
CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
CMP | Configuration Management Plan Change Management Plan |
CMS | Content Management System Code Sync Marker |
CN | Coherent Noise |
CND | Could-Not-Duplicate |
CNES | Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales |
CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
CNNS | Committee on National Security Service |
CNR | Carrier-to-Noise Ratio |
CO | Contract Officer Content Owner |
COA | Cordoba, Argentina Ground Station Change of Allocation |
COAC | Captured Opportunity Assessment Code |
COAST | Development of Coastal Study Team |
COC | Certificate of Completion Cost of Consequence |
COFUR | Cost of Fulfilling a User Request |
COG | Center of GravityContinuity of Government Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF |
CoGenT | Combination Generation Tool |
COI | Common Order Interface Calibration/Validation Order Interface |
COIGUI | Common Order Interface Graphical User Interface |
COLA | Collision Avoidance |
COMM | Communications Subsystem |
COMSEC | Communications Security |
Con Ops | Concept of Operations |
CONAE | Commission Nacional De Actividades Espaciales |
CoNED | Coastal National Elevation Database |
CONUS | Continental United States Conterminous United States |
COOP | Continuity of Operations |
COP | Contingency Operating Procedure |
COR | Contracting Officer Representative Cost of Reproduction |
CORS | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing |
COS | Cosine |
COST | Calibration Operations Scheduling Tool |
COTR | Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative |
COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
COUA | Certified Organizational Unit Administrator |
CP | Calibration Parameter or Change Proposal |
CPAF | Cost Plus Award Fee |
CPAW | Collection Planning and Analysis Workstation |
CPC | Contingency Plan Coordinator |
CPCI | Compact Peripheral Component Interconnect |
CPEI | Computer Program End Items |
CPEX-CV | Convective Processes Experiment – Cabo Verde |
CPF | Calibration Parameter File |
CPFF | Cost Plus Fixed Fee |
CPI | Cost Performance Index |
CPIC | Capital Planning and Investment Control |
CPM | Critical Path Methodology |
CPO | Custodial Property Officer |
CPR | Cost Performance Report |
CPR1 | Cost Performance Report 1 |
CPR4 | Cost Performance Report 4 |
CPR5 | Cost Performance Report 5 |
CPS | Calibration Parameter Management and Testing Subsystem |
CPT | Comprehensive Performance Test |
CPU | Central Processing Unit |
CR | Central Repository Controlled Repository Change Request Contingency Reserve Carriage Return Confirmation Review Command Routing |
CR1 | Computer Room 1 |
CR1MSS | Computer Room 1 Mass Storage System |
CR2 | Computer Room 2 |
CR2IT | Centralized Repository 2 Integration and Test |
CR2OPS | Centralized Repository 2 Operations |
CR2ST | Centralized Repository 2 System Test |
CR3 | Computer Room 3 |
CRADA | Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
CRaM | Combined Radiometric Model |
CRESDA | China Center for Resources Satellite Data and Applications |
CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check Cyclic Redundancy Code |
CRDEV | Central Repository Development |
CRI | Collection Request Interface |
CRIT | Central Repository Integration and Test |
CRM | Customer Relationship Management Continuous Risk Management |
CRMP | Continuous Risk Management Plan |
CRMT | Contingency Response Management Team |
CRN | Climate Reference Network |
CROPS | Central Repository Operations |
CRS | CDF Retrieval Subsystem |
CRSSGS | China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station |
CRSSP | Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy |
CRST | Central Repository System Test |
CRT | Command, Ranging and Telemetry |
CRTEST | Central Repository Test |
CRV | Combined Reference Value |
CS | Customer Service |
CSA | Configuration Status Accounting Commissioning Support Area Canadian Space Agency |
CSAM | Cybersecurity Assessment Management |
CSC | Computer Software Component |
CSCI | Computer Software Configuration Item |
CSDA | Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program |
CSDGM | Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata |
CSI | Container Storage Interface |
CSIRT | Computer Security Incident Report Team |
CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization |
CSIS | Control and Schedule Interface System |
CSIR | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
CSM | Code Sync Marker |
CSMO | Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer |
CSO | Communication Services Office Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer |
CSOP | COMSEC Standard Operating Procedure |
CSP | COMSEC Security Plan Cloud Service Provider |
CSR | Capture Success Rate Capture Success Ratio Customer Service Representative Change System Request |
CSRM | CHS Cloud Shared Responsibility Model |
CSS | Cascading Style Sheet Central Security Service Core Science Systems Course Sun Sensor |
CSU | Computer Software Units |
CSV | Comma Separated Values |
CT | Connectivity Test |
CTB | Command and Telemetry Board |
CTDiff | Cross-Track Difference |
CTE | Calibration Test Equipment Compatibility Test Equipment Common Table Expression |
CTHome | Cross-Track Homogeneity |
CTP | Command and Telemetry Processors |
CTS | Capture Transfer Subsystem Capture Transfer System |
CTV | Compatibility Test Van |
CUB | Cuiaba, Brazil Ground Station |
CUI | CPF User Interface Controlled Unclassified Information |
CV | Command Verification Cost Variance Coefficient of Variation |
CV-5 | Calibration and Validation 5 |
CV-7 | Calibration and Validation 7 |
CVCDU | Coded Virtual Channel Data Unit |
CVCM | Collected Volatile Condensable Material Collected Volatile Condensable Mass |
CVDQA | Calibration Validation Data Quality Assurance |
CVE | Calibration Validation Element |
CVS | Concurrent Versions System |
CVT | Calibration and Validation Team |
CVTK | Calibration / Validation Toolkit |
CVTKRD | Calibration and Validation Toolkit Requirements Document |
CVWG | Calibration-Validation Working Group |
CW | Continuous Wave Amazon Cloud Watch |
CWL | Center Wavelength |
CY | Contract Year |
CyAN | Cyanobacteria Assessment Network |
D&M | Development and Maintenance |
D/C | Down Converter |
D/L | Downlink |
D1R | DMS Generate L1R |
D3 | 50GB Data tape cartridge from StorageTek |
DA | Document Administrator Document Amendment |
DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
DaaS | Desktop as a Service |
DACA | Days After Contract Award |
DAE | Data Acquisition Element |
DAF | Data Acquisition Facility |
DAG | Database Administrator Guide Directed Acyclic Graph |
DAM | Data Acquisition Manager Database for Analysis and Modeling |
DAP | Data Acquisition Plan Data Acquisition Planner Digital Analytics Program |
DAR | Data at Rest, Data Acquisition Request, Decision Analysis and Resolution |
DART | Data Access Restriction Tool Decision Analysis and Resolution |
DAS | Data and Applications Support |
DASB | Direct Access S-Band |
DAT | Data Access Tool |
DAU | Defense Acquisition University |
DB | Database or Data Block |
dB | Decibel |
dB/K | Decibel per Degree Kelvin |
DBA | Database Administrator |
DBaaS | Database as a Service |
DBAR | Database Access Routines |
DBCA | Database Configuration Assistant |
DBCI | Database Configuration Item |
DBDD | Database Design Description Database Description Document |
dB-Hz | Decibel-Hertz |
dBi | Decibel Above Isotropic |
DBI | Database Interface |
DBMS | Database Management System |
DBS | Data Services Branch |
dBW | Decibel Relative to 1 Watt |
DC | Direct Current |
DC&P | Data Capture and Processing Facility |
DCAA | Defense Contract Audit Agency |
DCC | Data Characterization Components Deep Convective Clouds |
DCCB | DHF Configuration Control Board Development Configuration Control Board |
DCE | Data Collection Event |
DCG | DMS Generate Custom GCPLib |
DCIM | Data Center Infrastructure Management |
DCN | Document Control Number Document Change Notice |
DCO | DMS Capture Order |
DCOI | Data Center Optimization Initiative |
DCP | Data Collection Planners Data Processing Components |
DCPF | Data Capture & Processing Facility |
DCR | Document Change Request |
DCRS | Data Collection and Routing Subsystem Data Collection and Routing System |
DCRSf | Data Collection and Routing Subsystem file router Data Collection and Routing System file router |
DCRSi | Data Collection and Routing Subsystem interval router Digital Cassette Recorder System Incremental |
DCRSUI | Data Collection and Routing Subsystem User Interface |
DCS | Data Capture System or Data Characterization Subsystem Destination Control Statement Distributed Cache Service Data Center and Systems |
DCT | Digital Cassette Tape |
DCW | Data Collection Workbook |
DDD | Displacement Damage Dose |
DDI | DCS Data Ingest |
DDL | Database Definition Language |
DDOS | Distributed Denial of Service |
DDR | Data Descriptor Record |
DDRC | DPAS Design Reference Case |
DDS | DCS Database Server Database Distribution Subsystem Data Distribution Service |
DDT | DPAS Test Team |
DDV | Dense Dark Vegetation |
DE | Definitive Ephemeris |
DEF | Definitive Ephemeris Product |
Delta-I | Delta-Inclination |
DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
DEMIX | Digital Elevation Model Intercomparison eXperiment |
DEPEPH | Definitive Ephemeris Product |
DES | Station Description Message DAAC Emergency System |
DESIS | DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer |
DET | Escape Detection |
DEU | Digital Electronic Unit |
DEV | Development |
DF | Diffuser Type |
DFCB | Data Format Control Book |
DFD | Data Flow Diagram |
DFP | DMS Format and Package |
DFT | DMS File Transfer |
DG | Digital Globe |
DGC | DMS Generate Custom GCPs |
DGGS | Discrete Global Grid System |
DGR | DMS Generate Report Statistics |
DGT | DMS Generate Thumbnail |
DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
DHF | Data Handling Facility |
DHN | Data Handling Node |
DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
DI | Dependency Injection |
DIAB | DPS-in-a-Box |
DIAR | Department of the Interior Acquisition Regulation |
DIAT | Daily Image Annotation Tape |
DID | Data Item Description or DMS Ingest L0R Data |
DIE | DMS Ingest Element |
DIR | Direction |
DIRT | Data Interception by Remote Transmission |
DIS | Data Information System Data Instrumentation System |
DISC | Data and Information Services Center |
DITL | Day-In-The-Life |
DIV | Data Integrity Validation |
DKI | Parepare, Indonesia Ground Station |
DLC | DMS Load Characterization from Cloud |
DLI | DMS Load Inventory from Cloud |
DLR | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center) |
DLT | Digital Linear Tape |
DM | Data Management Document Management Data Manager |
DMA | Direct Memory Access Defense Mapping Agency |
DMAPI | Data Manager Application Programmer Interface |
DMB | Data Management Branch Data Management Baseline |
DMD | Digital Micromirror Device |
DME | Development, Modernization, and Enhancement |
DMF | Data Migration Facility |
DMI | DCRS to MOE Interface |
DMID | Data Management and Information Delivery |
DML | Data Manipulation Language |
DMLMDB | Data Management Landsat Metrics Database |
DMP | Document Management Plan Data Management Policy Data Management Plan |
DMR | Detailed Mission Requirements |
DMS | Data Management Subsystem Degrees, Minutes, Seconds Database Migration Service |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
DMU | Data Migration Utility Drag Makeup |
DMUI | Data Management User Interface |
DMV | Detector Map Verification |
DMZ | Demilitarized Zone |
DN | Descending Node Digital Number |
DNH | Do No Harm |
DNS | Domain Name Server Domain Name System |
DO | Delivery Order Director's Office |
DOC | Department of Commerce |
DoD | Department of Defense Depth of Discharge |
DOI | Department of the Interior Digital Object Identifier |
DOJ | Department of Justice |
DOORS | Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System |
DOORS-NG | Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements Management System Next Generation |
DOP | Dilution of Precision |
DOQ | Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle |
DORRAN | Distributed Ordering, Research, Reporting, and Accounting Network |
DoS | Denial of Service |
DOS | Department of State |
DOWD | Differenced One-Way Doppler |
DOY | Day-of-Year |
DP | Data Processing |
DPA | Destructive Physical Analysis |
DPAS | Data Processing and Archive System |
DPASRD | Data Processing and Archive System Requirements Document |
DPC | Data Processing Components |
DPD | DMS Placement Daemon |
DPL | DMS Process L0R |
DPMC | Directorate Program Management Council |
DPP | DMS Packet and Placement |
DPR | DMS Process ROLO Report |
DPS | Data Processing Subsystem Data Processing System |
DQA | Data Quality Analyst |
DQV | Data Quality Validation |
DR | Delivery Record or Discrepancy Report Disaster Recovery or Design Review |
DRA | DMS Retrieve Ancillary |
DRAC | Dell Remote Access Controller |
DRAD | Downwelled Radiance Layer |
DRB | Discrepancy Review Board |
DRC | Data Requirements List Design Reference Case |
DRC-16 | 16-day Design Reference Case |
DRD | Dated Raw Data |
DRE | DMS Retrieve Elevation |
DRFP | Draft Request for Proposal |
DRM | DMS Resource Manager |
DRP | Disaster Recovery Plan |
DRS | Data Reduction System |
DRSF | Daily Request Status File |
DRTS | Data Reporting and Tracking Subsystem |
DSB | Data Service Branch |
DSC | Descent Maneuver |
DSI | DMS Subsetter Interface |
DSL | Days-Since-Launch |
DSM | Digital Surface Model |
DSN | Deep Space Network |
DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
DSS | Data Staging System DPAS Subsetter |
DST | Data Support Team |
Dst | Disturbance Storm Time |
DSW | DMS Setup Work Order |
DSWE | Dynamic Surface Water Extent |
dT | Difference between hot and cold temperatures |
DT | Diffuser Type |
DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data |
DTG | Daytime Group |
DTO | Data Transfer Object |
DTR | Document Transfer Request |
DTS | Development and Training Simulations |
DTT | DPAS Test Team |
DUI | Data Manager User Interface DMS Universal L0R Ingest |
DUNS | Data Universal Numbering System |
DUZ | DMS UTM Zone |
DV | Data Validation |
DV&E | Data Validation & Exchange |
DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
DVD-R | Digital Versatile Disc – Read Only |
DWF | Design Web Format |
DXL | DMS L0 and L1 Products |
E&A | Evaluation and Analysis |
E&IT | Engineering and Information Technology |
E-Government | Electronic Government |
e-WAD | Employee Work Authorization Document |
E2E | End-to-End |
EA | Enterprise Architecture Executive Agency |
EAC | Estimate at Completion |
eAD | Enterprise Active Directory |
EAR | Export Administration Regulations |
EarthMAP | Earth Monitoring, Analyses, and Projections |
EAS | Evaluation and Analysis Subsystem |
EASI | Enterprise Architecture Study Implementation |
EAST | EROS Architecture Study Team |
Eb | Energy per Bit |
Eb/N0 | Energy per Bit to Noise |
EBAS | EROS Billing and Accounting System |
EBS | Elastic Block Store |
EC | Electronic Copy European Commission |
EC2 | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud |
ECA | Earth Coverage Antenna |
ECC | Error Correction Code Embedded Controller Card |
ECCC | Environment and Climate Change Canada |
ECCOE | EROS Calibration / Validation Center of Excellence |
ECEF | Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed |
ECF | Earth Centered Fixed |
ECHO | Extraction and Classification of Homogeneous Objects EOS Clearinghouse |
ECI | Earth Centered Inertial |
ECIMOD | ECI Mean of Date |
ECITOD | Earth Centered Inertial TRUE of Date |
ECL | Emitter-Coupled Logic |
ECM | EROS Cloud Management |
ECMP | EROS Contingency Plan Management |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
ECOSTRESS | Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station |
eCPIC | Electronic Capital Planning and Investment Control |
ECR | Earth Centered Rotating Amazon Elastic Container Registry |
ECS | EOSDIS Core System Amazon Elastic Container Service |
ECU | End Cryptographic Unit |
ECV | Essential Climate Variable |
EDAC | Error Detection and Correction |
EDAP | Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot |
eDAR | Enterprise Data At Rest |
EDC | EROS Data Center |
EDDDR | EDC Daily Discrepancy Report EDC Daily Data Received Report |
EDDN | Emergency Data Distribution Network |
EDG | EOS Data Gateway |
EDOS | EOS Data Processing Segment EOS Data and Operations System |
EDU | Engineering Development Unit |
EE | EarthExplorer Edge Extent |
EELV | Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle |
EEE | Electrical, Electronic, Electromechanical |
EEF | Enterprise Environmental Factors |
EEMT | EROS Executive Management |
EEO | Equal Employment Opportunity |
EEPROM | Electrical Erasable Program Read-Only Memory |
EETT | Ecosystem Extent Task Team |
EF | Earth-Fixed |
EFS | Encrypting File System Elastic File System EELV Secondary Payload Adapter Flight System |
EGS | Enterprise Ground System |
EGSE | Electrical Ground Support Equipment |
EIA | Electronic Industry Alliance |
EIRP | Effective Isotropic Radiated Power |
EIS | External Interface Specification |
EISER | EROS Information System Event Response |
EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
EKMS | Electronic Key Management System |
EKS | Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service |
EL1PS | EDC Level 1 Prototype System |
ELT | Encumbrances, Leans, and Threats |
ELV | Expendable Launch Vehicle |
ELVIS | EROS LiDAR Visualization |
EM | Engineering Model |
Electronic Mail | |
EMC | Electromagnetic Compatibility |
EMD | Enhanced Metadata |
EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
EMIS | Emissivity Layer |
EMP | Electromagnetic Pulse |
EMSD | Emissivity Standard Deviation |
EMV | Expected Monetary Value |
EN | EarthNow! |
EnMAP | Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program |
ENVI | Environment for Visualizing Images |
EO | Earth Observing |
EO-1 | Earth Observing 1 |
EOA | Earth Observation Assessment |
EOC | Earth Observation Center |
EOCL | Electro-Optical Commercial Layer |
EODMS | Earth Observation Data Management System |
EOF | End-of-File |
EOIS | Earth Observation Data & Information Systems |
EOL | End-of-Line End-of-Life |
EOM | End-of-Mission |
EOMP | End-of-Mission Plan |
EOP | Executive Office of the President |
EOR | Earth Observation Requirements |
EORES | Earth Observation Requirements Evaluation System |
EOS | Earth Observing System |
EOSAT | Earth Observation Satellite Company |
EOSDIS | EOS Data and Information System |
EPA | Euler Parameter ESD Protected Area |
EPICS | Extended Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites |
EPF | ETM+ Processing Facility |
EPGN | EOS Polar Ground station Network |
EPP | Electronic Power Converter for Payload |
EPR | Engineering Peer Review |
EPRP | Engineering Peer Review Plan |
EPS | Electrical Power Subsystem |
EPSG | European Petroleum Survey Group |
ERB | Engineering Review Board |
ERD | Entity Relationship Diagram |
EROS | Earth Resources Observation and Science |
EROS-ISP | EROS-Imaging Spectroscopy Project |
ERPS | EOS Real-time Processing System |
ERR | Error |
ERS | EROS Registration Service |
ERTS | Earth Resources Technology Satellite |
ERMM | Emergency Risk Mitigation Maneuver |
ES | Edge Slope |
ESA | European Space Agency Earth Sensor Assembly |
eSAS | Enterprise Security Applications Service |
ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
ESD | Earth Science Division Electrostatic Discharge |
ESDIS | Earth Science Data and Information System |
ESDS | Earth Science Data Systems |
ESF | Edge Spread Function |
ESIP | Earth Science Information Partners |
ESM | Equipment Support Module |
ESMO | Earth Science Mission Operations |
ESN | Enterprise Services Network |
ESP | Encapsulating Security Payload Engineering Specialty Plans |
ESPA | EROS Science Processing Architecture EELV Secondary Payload Adapter |
ESTO | Earth Science Technology Office |
ESRB | Elevation Specification Review Board |
ESRI | Environmental Systems Research Institute |
ESRIN | European Space Research Institute |
ESSO | Earth Systems Science Organization |
ESUN | Solar Spectral Irradiance Exoatmospheric Spectral Irradiances |
ET | Evapotranspiration |
ETa | Actual Evapotranspiration |
ETC | Estimate to Completion |
ETE | End to End |
ETf | Evapotranspiration Fraction |
ETL | Extraction, Translation, Load Extract, Transform, Load |
ETM | Enhanced Thematic Mapper |
ETM+ | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus |
ETMDSS | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus Data Subsetting Subsystem |
ETOPO5 | Earth Topography Five Minute Grid |
ETr | Evapotranspiration Alfalfa-Reference Potential |
ETRO | Estimated Time of Return to Operations |
ETUN | Evapotranspiration Uncertainty |
ETV | Expected Time Value |
EU | Engineering Unit |
EUG | EROS User Group |
EUMETSAT | European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
EV | Earned Value |
EVCDU | Extended Virtual Channel Data Unit |
EVI | Enhanced Vegetation Index |
EVM | Earned Value Management |
EVMS | Earned Value Management System |
EVP | Environmental Verification Plan |
EVS | Earth-Vehicle-Sun angle Earned Value System |
EVT | Enhanced Value Technique Existing Vegetation Type |
EWR | Eastern and Western Ranges |
EWW | Extended Workweek |
ExPAC | Extended PICS Absolute Calibration |
F&PS | Functional and Performance Specifications |
FA | Formulation Authorization |
FAB | File Allocation Block |
FAC | Full Aperture Calibrator |
FAD | Formulation Authorization Document |
FAI | Federal Acquisition Institute |
FANO | Forcing and Normalizing Operation |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Question |
FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulation |
FASC | Full Aperture Solar Calibrator |
FASCAL | Facility for Spectroradiometric Calibrations |
FAST-L7A | FAST-Landsat 7 Format |
FAT | Factory Acceptance Testing |
FAX | Facsimile Transmission |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FBMS | Financial and Business Management System |
FBU | Fixed Base Unit |
FC | Formulation Contractor Fiber Channel or Fractional Cover |
FC-AL | Fiber Channel-Arbitrated Loop |
FCA | Functional Configuration Audit |
FCDAS | Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station |
FD | Flight Dynamics or Fire Detection |
FDAB | Flight Dynamics Analysis Branch |
FDAC | Failure Detection and Control |
FDC | Failure Detection and Correction |
FDD | Facilities Definition Document Format Description Document |
FDDI | Fiber-Distributed Data Interface |
FDF | Flight Dynamics Facility |
FDIR | Fault Detection, Isolation, & Recovery |
FDS | Flight Dynamics System |
FDW | Foreign Data Wrapper |
FEC | Forward Error Corrected |
FedRAMP | Federal Risk and Authentication Management Program |
FEDS | Front-End Data System |
FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
FEP | Front-End Processor |
FFOV | Full Field of View |
FFP | Firm Fixed Price |
FFRDC | Federally Funded Research and Development Centers |
FFS | Fiscal Financial System |
FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
FFTW | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West |
FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee |
FHS | First Half Scan |
FHSERR | First Half Scan Error |
FIA | Final Implementation Agreement |
FIEOS | Future Intelligent Earth Observing Satellites |
FIFO | First In, First Out |
FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards |
FIR | Finite Impulse Response |
FISCAM | Federal Information System Control Audit Manual |
FISMA | Federal Information Security Management Act |
FISSA | Federal Information System Security Awareness |
FITARA | Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act |
FLIR | Forward-Looking Infrared |
FM | Fault Management |
Fmask | Function of Mask |
FMEA | Failure Mode and Effect Analysis |
FMECA | Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis |
FMFIA | Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act |
FMT | Format |
FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
FOC | Full Operational Capability |
FOCCB | Flight Operations Configuration Control Board |
FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
FOM | Facilities Operations Manager |
FOP | Flight Operations Plan |
FOR | Flight Operations Review |
FORE-SCE | FOREcasting SCEnarios |
FORMATS | Flight Dynamics Orbit and Mission Aids Transformation System |
FOS | Flight Operations Segment |
FOT | Flight Operations Team |
FOTS | Free Off-The-Shelf |
FOV | Field of View |
FP | Flight Processor |
FPA | Focal Plane Assembly Focal Plane Array |
FPD | Flight Projects Directorate |
FPE | Focal Plane Electronics |
FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array |
FP-IT | Forward Processing for Instrument Teams |
FPM | Focal Plane Modules |
FPPS | Federal Personnel Payroll System |
FPROC | Forward Processing |
FQT | Formal Qualification Testing Functional Qualification Test |
FRB | Full-Resolution Browse Failure Review Board |
FRED | Framed Raw Expanded Data |
FRP | Federal Response Plan |
FRPOC | Forward Processing |
FRR | Flight Readiness Review |
FRS | File Retrieval System |
FS | Forecast Schedules |
fSCA | Fractional Snow Covered Area |
FSCC | Fastcom Serial Card |
FSD | Flight Systems Development |
FSL | Flight System Lead Flight Support Lead |
FSM | Flight Systems Manager |
FSP | Fundamental Science Practices |
FSSC | Financial Support Services Contract |
FST | Flight Support Team |
FSTL | FST Lead |
FSV | Flight Software Vendor |
FSW | Flight Software |
FTA | Fault Tree Analysis |
FTD | File Transfer Daemon |
FTE | Full-Time Equivalent Full-Time Employee |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
FTR | Forced to Rebalance |
FTS | Flight Termination System |
FUSE | Filesystem in USErspace |
FW | Firewall Full Width |
FWHM | Full Width Half Maximum |
FWS | Fish and Wildlife Service |
FY | Fiscal Year |
G&A | General and Administrative |
G/T | Gain over Temperature |
GA | Geoscience Australia |
GAfG | Google Apps for Government |
GAM | Geography Analysis and Monitoring |
GAN | Generative Adversarial Network |
GAO | General Accounting Office |
GAQD | Originator Routing Code for IIRV Messages |
GAR | Global Archive Refresh |
GARD | Global Analysis Ready Data |
GAST | Greenwich Apparent Sidereal Time |
GB | Gigabyte |
GbE | Gigabit per Second Ethernet |
GBFOM | Global Band Figure of Merit |
GBICS | Gigabit Interface Converters |
GBL | Government Bill of Lading |
Gbps | Gigabits per Second |
GBRM | Gradient Booted Regression Model |
GCCB | Ground Segment Configuration Control Board |
GCDR | Ground System Critical Design Review |
GCOR | Temperature Corrected Gains |
GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
GCP | Ground Control Point |
GCRS | Geocentric Celestial Reference System |
GCTP | General Cartographic Transformation Package |
GDAIS | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems |
GDAL | Geospatial Data Abstraction Library |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
GDS | Ground Data Systems |
GECSC | Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center |
GED | Global Emissivity Database |
GEDU | Ground Encryption / Decryption Unit |
GEE | Google Earth Engine |
GEMI | Global Environmental Monitoring Index |
GEO | Geolocation Index File Group on Earth Observations |
GEOGLAM | Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring |
GEOID | Gravity for Earth, Ocean, and Ice Dynamics |
GeoJSON | Geographic JavaScript Object Notation |
GEOM | Geometric |
GeoRSS | Geographic Really Simple Syndication |
GEOS-5 FP-IT | Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 Forward Processing for Instrument Teams |
GEOS-R | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series |
GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
GeoTIFF | Geographic Tagged Image File Format Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format |
GES DISC | Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center |
GEVS | General Environmental Verification Specification |
GFE | Government Furnished Equipment |
GFI | Government Furnished Information |
GFOI | Global Forest Observations Initiative |
GFP | Government Furnished Property |
GFS | Global File System |
GFY | Government Fiscal Year |
GGOS | Global Geodetic Observing System |
GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
GHz | Gigahertz |
GIA | Government Inspection Agency |
GIAC | Global Information Assurance Certification |
GIAM | Global Irrigated Area Mapping |
GIDEP | Government Industry Data Exchange Program |
GIFOV | Ground-projected Instantaneous Field of View |
GigE | Gigabit Ethernet |
GIMP | Greenland Ice Mapping Project |
GIO | Geographic Information Officer |
GIPS | Geoinformatics Products and Solutions |
GIQE | General Image-Quality Equation |
GIS | Geographical Information Systems Geographic Information System |
GISRA | Government Information Security Reform Act |
GISTDA | Geoinformatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Thailand) |
GL | Geoscience Laboratory |
GLAMR | Goddard Laser for Absolute Measurement of Radiance |
GLanCE | Global Land Cover mapping and Estimation |
GLC | Ground Look Calibration Request or Gilmore Creek |
GLCC | Global Land Cover Characterization |
GLCUC | Global Land Cover, land Use, and land cover Change |
GloVis | Global Visualization Viewer |
GLS | Global Land Survey or Global File System |
GMAO | Global Modeling and Assimilation Office |
GMAP | Global Monitoring Acquisition Plan |
GMRCA | Global Map of Rainfed Cropland Areas |
GMSEC | Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center |
GMSR | Government Monthly Status Review |
GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
GN | Ground Network |
GNC | Gatineau, Canada Ground Station |
GNE | Ground Network Element |
GNE-DCRS | Ground Network Element Data Collection and Routing System |
GNEDD | Ground Network Element Design Document |
GNEOCD | Ground Network Element Operations Concept Document |
GNERD | GNE Requirements Document |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GNU | GNU’s Not Unix |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GOLD | Goddard Open Learning Design |
GOOS | Global Ocean Observing System |
GOP | Ground Operations Plan |
GOS | Geospatial One-Stop |
GOT | Ground Operations Team |
GOTS | Government Off-The-Shelf |
GP | Geophysical Parameter |
GP4 | General Perturbation Theory |
GPART | Geophysical Parameter Tool Geophysical Parameter Assignment Rating Tool |
GPCS | General Processing and Control System |
GPD | GSFC Policy Directive |
GPDR | Ground System Preliminary Design Review |
GPL | General Public License |
GPR | GNE Post-Pass Report Goddard Procedural Requirement |
GPRA | Government Performance and Results Act |
GPS | Geometric Processing System Gap Phase Statistic Global Positioning System |
GPSR | Global Positioning System Receiver |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
GRASS | Geographic Resources Analysis Support System |
GRI | Ground Reference Image |
GRIB | Gridded Data or Gridded Binary |
GRID | Global Resource Information Database |
GRM | Ground Readiness Manager |
GRS | Grid Reference System (SPOT) |
GRT | Ground Readiness Test |
GRTP | Ground Readiness Test Plan |
GRTT | Ground Readiness Test Team |
GS | Ground System Ground Segment |
GSA | U.S. General Services Administration Ground Station Analyst |
GSaaS | Ground Station as a Service |
GSC | Ground Station Controller |
GSCCB | Ground System Change Control Board |
GSCDR | Ground System Critical Design Review |
GSD | Ground Sampling Distance Guide Star Data |
GSDD | Ground System Design Document |
GSDRB | Ground System Discrepancy Review Board |
GSE | Ground Support Equipment Ground Station Engineers Ground System Engineer Ground System Element |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GSI | Ground Station Identifier Ground System Infrastructure Ground Support Infrastructure |
GSICS | Global Space-based Intercalibration System |
GSIRD | Ground System Interface Requirements Document |
GSIT | Ground System Integration |
GSITP | Ground System Integration and Test Plan |
GSIWG | Ground System Interface Working Group |
GSL | GNU Scientific Library |
GSLC | Geocoded Single-Look Complex |
GSM | Ground System Manager |
GSMO | Ground System Management Office Ground System and Mission Operations |
GSMOR | Ground System Mission Operations Review |
GSOCD | Ground System Operations Concept Document |
GSOPD | Ground System Operations Plan Document |
GSPDR | Ground System Preliminary Design Review |
GSRD | Ground System Requirements Document |
GSRR | Ground System Requirements Review |
GSRT | Ground System Review Team |
GSRVM | Ground System Requirements Verification Maintenance |
GSSIR | Ground System to Spacecraft Integration Rack |
gSSURGO | Gridded Soil Survey Geographic Database |
GSSP | Guide for Developing Security Plans for Information Technology Systems |
GST | Geographic Support Team Ground Station Technician Global Stocktake |
GSTDN | Ground Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network |
GSVVP | Ground System Verification and Validation Plan |
GSVWG | Ground System Verification Working Group |
GSWG | Ground System Working Group |
GTID | Global Transaction Identifier |
GTOPO30 | Global 30 Arc-Second Elevation Data Set |
GTOS | Global Terrestrial Observing System |
GTT | GNE Test Team |
GUI | Graphical User Interface |
GWENS | GroundWater Exploration Navigation System |
GXA | Gimbaled X-Band Antennae |
H/W | Hardware |
HA | High Availability |
HAAT | Header, Ancillary, Annotation, and Trailer |
HALE | High Altitude Long Endurance |
HBR | Hard Body Radius |
HC | Hard Copy |
HCA | Horizontal Collimator Assembly |
HCMP | Hardware Configuration Management Plan |
HCR | Hardware Configuration Request Hardware Change Request |
HDDS | Hazards Data Distribution Systems |
HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
HDF-EOS | Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System |
HDF-EOS2 | Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (version 2) |
HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 |
HDF5-EOS | Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 - Earth Observing System |
HDFS | Hadoop File System |
HDLC | High-Level Data Link Control |
HDM | Hardware Data Manager HSM Data Manager |
HDP | HDF Dumper |
HDR | Header High Data Rate |
HDRM | High Data Rate Modem |
HDS | Horizontal Display Shift |
HDT | High-Density Tape |
HDTR | High-Density Tape Recorder |
HE | Hardware Engineer |
HEE | Half Edge Extent |
Hex | Hexadecimal |
HgCdTe | Mercury Cadmium Telluride |
HGS | Hallway Ground Station |
HIE | High Interest Event |
HIRS | High-Resolution Infrared Sounder |
HITL | Hour in the Life |
HK | Housekeeping |
HKDB | Housekeeping Data Buffer |
HLD | High-Level Document |
HLS | Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 |
HMP | Hardware Management Plan |
HOM | Hotine Oblique Mercator |
HOMFiH | Homogeneity Filter |
HOT | Haze Optimized Transformation |
HP | Horizontal Polarization |
HPA | High-Power Antenna High Power Amplifiers |
HPC | High Performance Computing |
HPIG | Hosted Payload Interface Guide |
HPN | Panchromatic Band Header File |
HPP | Highest Point in Polygon |
HQ | Headquarters |
HR | Human Resources Heritage Review Horizontal Resolution |
HR MSI | High-Resolution Multispectral Imager |
HRS | Horizontal Resampling Space |
HRV | High-Resolution Visible (SPOT sensor) |
HSI | Hyperspectral Imagery Hyperspectral Imager |
HSM | Hierarchical Storage Management Hierarchical Storage Manager |
HSPD | Homeland Security Presidential Directive |
HTC | High Throughput Computing |
HTM | Thermal Bands Header File |
HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
HTSI | Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure |
HUB | Historically Underutilized Business |
HVAC | Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning |
HVU | High-Volume User |
HWCI | Hardware Configuration Item |
Hz | Hertz |
I | In-Phase Channel |
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I&T | Integration and Test |
I/O | Input/Output |
I/Q | In-phase and Quadrature Modulation Components |
I1 | Internet 1 |
I2 | Internet 2 |
I2I | Image-to-Image |
I2RV | Improved Inter-Range Vector Message |
IA | Implementing Agreement or Impact Analysis International Activities Interagency Agreement |
IAA | Interagency Agreement |
IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
IAC | Independent Assurance Contractor Issue Assessment Code |
IaC | Infrastructure as Code |
IAD | Ion-Assisted Deposition |
IAM | Identity and Access Management Inclination Adjustment (Delta I) Maneuver |
IAR | Image Anomaly Report |
IARPA | Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity |
IAS | Image Assessment Subsystem Image Assessment System |
IASICP | IAS Internal Calibrator Pulse |
IATO | Interim Authority To Operate |
IAU | International Astronomical Union |
IAW | In Association With |
IBM | International Business Machines |
IBR | Integrated Baseline Review |
IC | Interface Control International Cooperator Internal Calibrator Internal Cache |
ICD | Interface Control Document |
ICDR | Instrument Critical Design Review |
ICe | Internal Calibrator processing for Emissive bands |
ICF | Initial Correction Factor |
ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
ICO | International Cooperator Office |
ICT | Interface Connectivity Testing |
ICVS | Independent Calibration and Verification Segment Independent Characterization and Verification System |
ICWP | IC Web Portal |
ID | Infrastructure Design Interface Documents Identification |
IDCC | Interval Data Collection Concept |
IDCO | Image Data Collection Omission |
IDCP | Interval Data Collection Plan |
IDCS | Image Data Collection Schedule |
IDD | Interface Definitions Document |
IDE | Integrated Device Electronics Infrastructure Development Integrated Development Environment |
IDF | Interval Definition File Image Data File |
IDIQ | Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity |
IDL | Interactive Data Language |
IDP | Individual Development Plan |
IDPS | Image Data Processing Subsystem |
IDR | IAS Data Recorder |
IDS | Intrusion Detection System Interval Delivery Subsystem |
IDSO | Image Data Schedule Omission |
IDSR | Image Data Status Report Image Data Schedule Report Integrated Daily Status Report |
IDWR | Idaho Department of Water Resources |
IE | Infrastructure Element |
IEC | iStat Executive Committee International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IEM | Integrated Electronics Module |
IERS | International Earth Rotation Service |
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
IF | Intermediate Frequency |
IFAT | ITOS File Accounting Tool |
IFB | Invitation for Bid |
IFD | Image File Directory |
IFFT | Inverse Fast Fourier Transform |
IFL | Interfacility Link |
IFOV | Instrument Field of View Instantaneous Field of View |
IGARSS | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
IGE | Independent Government Estimate |
IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
IGS | Integrated Security Gateway International Ground Station |
IIOP | Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
IIR | Image Impact Report |
IIRR | Instrument Integration Readiness Review |
IIRV | Improved Inter-Range Vector |
IITL | Interval-In-The-Life |
IKE | Internet Key Exchange |
ILI | IGS to LAM Interface |
IM | Instant Message Inclination Maneuver |
IMAR | Instrument Mission Assurance Requirement |
IMB | Issue Management Board |
IMF | Inverse Minor Frames Interval Metadata File |
IMP | Information Management Plan Integrated Master Plan |
IMR | Issue Management Record |
IMS | Integrated Master Schedule Information Management System Information Management Services |
IMT | Integrated Mission Timeline Information Management Technology |
IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit Internal Measurement Unit |
IMWD | Internet Moving Window Display |
IN | Impulse Noise or Ingest |
INC | Inclination Maneuver |
INCITS | International Committee for Information Technology Standards |
INCOSE | International Council on Systems Engineering |
Inf | Infrastructure |
INFOSEC | Information Security |
ING | Ingest |
INM | IGS Network Manager |
INPE | National Institute for Space Research (Brazil) |
InSb | Indium Antimonite |
INT | Signed Integer |
INT16 | 16-bit Signed Integer |
INTR | Interpreted Layer |
INTSM | Interpreted Layer with Some Masks Applied |
INTWAM | Interpreted Layer with All Mask Applied |
INV | Inventory |
IOC | Initial Operational Capability Initial On-orbit Checkout Installation Operational Certification In-Orbit Checkout Initial Operational Configuration Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
IOCCG | International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group |
IOE | Instrument Operations Element |
IOI | Inventory Operations Interface |
IONET | IP Operational Network |
IoT | Internet of Things |
IP | Internet Protocol Installation Plan Intellectual Property International Partnership |
IPA | Interproject Agreement Instrument Pallet Assembly |
IPAC | Intergovernment Payment and Collection |
IPC | Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits Inter-Process Communication |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IPComp | IP Payload Compression Protocol |
IPDR | Instrument Preliminary Design Review |
IPDS | Information Product Data System |
IPDU | Internet Protocol Data Unit |
IPE | Image Processing Element |
IPM | IGS Priority Mask Online Tool IGS Priority and Request Map Incyte Project Manager Integrated Payload Module |
IPMR | Integrated Program Management Report |
IPMS | Integrated Project Management System |
IPMSD | Integrated Project Management System Description |
IPO | Integrated Program Office |
IPP | Invoice Processing Platform |
IPR | Intersegment Problem Report |
IPS | Intrusion Prevention System Image Processing System |
IPSec | Internet Protocol Security |
IPSR | Instrument Preship Review |
IPT | Integrated Project Team Integrated Product Team Integrated Program Team |
IPV | Integrated Pulse Value |
IQE | Image Quality Estimation |
IR | Infrared |
IRB | Investment Review Board |
IRD | Interface Requirements Document |
IRFP | Implementation Request for Proposal |
IRIG | Inter-Range Instrumentation Group |
IRLS | Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares |
IRP | Incident Reporting Plan |
IRR | Integrated Readiness Review |
IRS | Interface Requirements Specification |
IRU | Inertial Reference Unit |
IRV | Improved Inter-Range Vector Message |
IS | Ingest System |
ISA | Internet Security and Acceleration Interconnection Security Agreement |
ISAB | Integrated Science and Applications Branch |
ISC | International Science Council |
ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
ISCP | Information System Contingency Plan |
iSCSI | Internet Small Computer System Interface |
ISD | Interface Specification Document |
ISE | Instrument Support Electronics |
ISF | Instrument Support Facility |
ISI | Integral Systems Incorporated |
ISIS | Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers |
ISL | Interswitch Link |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
ISP | Imaging Spectroscopy Project |
ISPRS | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
ISRO | Indian Space Research Organization |
ISSLOB | Information Systems Security Line of Business |
ISSO | Information System Security Official |
IST | Integrated System Test |
ISTESR | Ingest Subsystem Test Execution Summary Report Inventory Subsystem Test Execution Summary Report |
IT | Information Technology Integration Test Instrument Telemetry |
ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
ITC | Integration Test Case |
ITHR | Instrument Transition Handover Review |
ITIP | Information Technology Infrastructure Plan |
ITOS | Integrated Test and Operations System |
ITP | Integration Test Plan |
ITRF | International Terrestrial Reference Frame |
ITRS | International Terrestrial Reference System |
ITS | Information Technology Services Integrated Time Sweep |
ITSD | Information Technology Services Division |
ITSEC | Information Technology Security |
ITSNOC | Information Technologies Service Network Operations Center |
ITSOT | Information Technology Security Operations Team |
ITSS | Information Technology and Scientific Services |
ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
IU | Individual User |
IUR | Individual User Request |
IV&V | Independent Verification and Validation |
IVM | Interface Verification Matrix |
IVOS | Infrared and Visible Optical Sensors |
IW&DS | Information Warehouse and Data Store |
IWAD | Individual Work Authorization Document |
IWG | Interface Working Group |
IWT | Image Window Table Integer Wavelet Transform |
J2EE | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
JACIE | Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation |
JALBTCX | Joint Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise |
JAR | Java Archive |
JASON | Joint Activity Simulation for Observatories and Networks |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
JaxB | Java Architecture for XML Binding |
JBOD | Just a Bunch Of Disks |
JBOSS | J2EE Application Server |
JCL | Joint Confidence Level |
JDBC | Java Database Connectivity |
JDK | Java Development Kit |
JFIF | JPEG File Interchange Format |
JIT | Just-In-Time (Compiler) |
JMS | Java Messaging Service |
JMSRA | Java Message Service Resource Adapter |
JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
JPF | Job Parameter File |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JPSS | Joint Polar Satellite System |
JSA | Johannesburg, South Africa Ground Station |
JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
JSP | Java Server Pages |
JSpOC | Joint Space Operations Center |
JSR | Java Portlet Specification |
JSX | Java HTML-like syntax |
JTS | Java Topology Suite |
JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
JWT | JSON web token |
K | Degrees Kelvin |
K8s | Kubernetes |
KA8 | Known Anomaly Eight |
KARI | Korea Aerospace Research Institute |
KB | Kilobyte |
Kbps | Kilobits per second |
KBps | Kilobytes per Second |
KBR | Kellogg Brown & Root |
KDP | Key Decision Point |
kg | Kilogram |
KHB | Kennedy Space Center Handbook |
KHC | Kashi, China Ground Station |
kHz | Kilohertz |
KIS | Kiruna, Sweden Ground Station |
km | Kilometer |
KMA | Korean Meteorological Administration |
KMI | Key Management Infrastructure |
KML | Keyhole Markup Language |
KMP | Key Management Plan |
KMS | Key Management Service |
kPa | Kilopascal |
KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
KPM | Key Performance Measures |
KPR | Key Performance Requirement |
KSAT | Kongsberg Satellite Services |
KSC | Kennedy Space Center |
Ksps | Kilo-Symbols per Second |
KUJ | Kumamoto, Japan Ground Station |
KVM | Keyboard Video Mouse |
L&C | Likelihood and Consequence |
L&EO | Launch and Early Orbit |
L+30 | Launch + 30 Days |
L+60 | Launch + 60 Days |
L+90 | Launch + 90 Days |
L0 | Level 0 Data Product |
L0c | Level 0 Corrected |
L0R | Level 0 Reformatted |
L0Ra | Level 0 Reformatted Archive |
L0Rc | Level 0 Reformatted Corrected |
L0Rp | Level 0 Reformatted Product |
L1 | Level 1 Data Product or Landsat 1 |
L1AOS | Level 1 Automatic Ordering System |
L1G | Level 1 Geometrically (Corrected) |
L1Gs | Level 1 Geometric Systematic |
L1Gt | Level 1 Systematic Terrain (Corrected) |
L1P | Level 1 Precision (Corrected) |
L1R | Level 1 Radiometric (Corrected) |
L1R-H | Hybrid Level 1 Radiometric |
L1SE | Level 1 Sustaining Engineering |
L1T | Level 1 Terrain (Corrected) Level 1 Precision and Terrain |
L1TP | Level 1 Terrain Precision (Corrected) |
L2 | Level 2 Data Product or Landsat 2 |
L2+ | Level 2+ |
L2GT | Level 2 Systematic Terrain (Corrected) |
L2PGS | Level 2 Product Generation System |
L2PS | Level 2 Processing Subsystem |
L2SP | Level 2 Science Product |
L2SR | Level 2 Science Product, Reflectance only |
L2TP | Level 2 Terrain Precision (Corrected) |
L3 | Level 3 Landsat 3 |
L3+ | Level 3+ |
L3PGS | Level 3 Product Generation System |
L4 | Level 4 Landsat 4 |
L5 | Level 5 Landsat 5 |
L7 | Landsat 7 |
L8 | Landsat 8 |
L9 | Landsat 9 |
LAADS | Landsat Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System |
LAASPA | Landsat Acquisition and Special Planning Application |
LACCA | Land Automated Cloud Cover Assessment |
LACS | Landsat Archive Conversion System |
LADS | LDCM Archive and Dissemination Segment |
LAM | Landsat Archive Manager |
LAM AS | LAM Archive Server |
LAM008 | Interface Between COI PS and L0Rp PS |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LANCE | Land, Atmosphere Near Real-Time Capability for EOS |
LandIS | Landsat Next Instrument Suite |
LaRC | Langley Research Center |
LAS | Land Analysis System |
LASP | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
LaSRC | Land Surface Reflectance Code |
LASSO | Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator |
LAT | Latitude Lab Acceptance Test |
LBG | Libreville, Gabon Ground Station |
LC | LDCM Contractor |
LCA | Land Change Assessment |
LCACHG | Annual Land Cover Change |
LCB | Load Control Board |
LCC | Lambert Conformal Conic or Lifecycle Cost |
LCCB | Landsat Configuration Control Board |
LCCR | Landsat Configuration Change Request |
LCG | Landsat Coordination Group |
LCGS | LDCM Contractor Ground Segment |
LCIPS | Landsat Cloud Image Processing System |
LCLUA | Land Cover and Land Use Analysis |
LCMAP | Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection |
LCMASK | Land Cover Mask Band |
LCMS | Landscape Change Monitoring System |
LCNext | Land Cover Next |
LCPCONF | Primary Land Cover Confidence |
LCPRI | Primary Land Cover |
LCR | Logical Change Record LTAP Collection Request |
LCS | Land Change Science |
LCSCONF | Secondary Land Cover Confidence |
LCSEC | Secondary Land Cover |
LCSS | LDCM Contractor Space Segment Land Change Science System |
LCU | Load Control Unit |
LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LDB | IAS Local Database or Land Database |
LDCC | Landsat Data Continuity Contract |
LDCM | Landsat Data Continuity Mission |
LDCMGS | Landsat Data Continuity Mission Ground Station |
LDCMSC | Landsat Data Continuity Mission Spacecraft |
LDCP | LSDS Data & Capabilities Partnerships |
LDDMWG | Landsat Data Distribution and Marketing Working Group |
LDDWG | Landsat Data Distribution Working Group |
LDMT | Landsat Data Management Team |
LDI | LPS Data Ingest or L0Ra Data Ingest |
LDIF | LDAP Data Interchange Format |
LDIS | LAM to DORRAN Interface System |
LDPC | Low-Density Parity Check |
LDPS | Landsat Data Purchase System |
LDRCS | LDCM Document Review Comment Spreadsheet |
LDTS | LPS Data Transfer Subsystem |
LE90 | Linear Error 90 Percent |
LEDAPS | Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System |
LEI | LAM to ECS Interface |
LEM | Lower Equipment Module |
LEO | Low-Earth Orbiting Launch and Early Orbit |
LEO&A | Launch, Early Orbit and Activation |
LEO&C | Launch, Early Orbit & Commissioning |
LEO-T | Low-Earth Orbiter-Terminal |
LES | Log file Extraction Services |
Level A | Level Zero Aggregated |
LF | Line-Feed |
LFAT | Landsat File Accounting Tool |
LFO | Landsat Flight Operations |
LFRDB | Landfire Reference Database |
LG | L0Ra Generator |
LGAC | Landsat Global Archive Consolidation |
LGGS | Landsat Global Geodetic Standard |
LGN | Landsat Ground Network |
LGNT | Landsat Ground Network Test |
LGO | Landsat Ground Operations |
LGPL | Lesser General Public License |
LGS | Landsat 7 Ground System Landsat Ground Station |
LGSOWG | Landsat Ground Station Operations Working Group |
LH | Left Hand |
LHC | Left-Hand Circular L0Ra Histogram Characterization |
LHCP | Left-Hand Circularly Polarized |
LHS | Left-Hand Side Left-Hand SLO |
LIB | Library |
LICS | Landsat International Communication System |
LID | Landsat and LDCM Inventory Database LSDS Inventory Database |
LiDAR | Light Detection and Ranging |
LIFO | Last In, First Out |
LIL | Landsat Inventory Loader |
LIM | Landsat Inventory Management LDCM Interface for Metadata Lunar Irradiance Model |
LIMA | Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica Landsat Inventory Metadata Application |
LIMB | LAM Interface for Metadata and Browse |
LINEAGEQA | Lineage Index |
LIR | LDCM in Retrospect |
LIS | Landsat Integration System LACS Inventory System |
LISS-III | Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor III |
LITAP | Landsat Intersegment Technical Assessment Panel |
LKPC | Landsat Kubernetes Processing Controller |
LL | Lower Left Lessons Learned |
LLI | LAM to LACS Interface |
LLIS | LAM LPGS Interface Subsystem |
LM | Labeled Mask |
LMASK | Labeled Mask |
Lmax | Maximum Radiance |
LMC | Lockheed Martin Corporation |
LMCM | Launch Management Coordination Meeting |
LMD | Landsat Mission Database |
LMDD | Landsat Metadata Description Document |
LMDRS | Landsat Metadata Documentation and Reporting System |
LMI | Lower Equipment Module Interface |
Lmin | Minimum Radiance |
LMM | Landsat Mission Manager |
LMMS | Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space |
LMO | Landsat Mission Operations |
LMOC | Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center |
LMOCRD | Landsat Multi-Satellite Operations Center Requirements Document |
LMOO | LMO Ops Crew |
LMOP | Land Satellites Data System Mission Operations Project |
LMST | Local Mean Solar Time |
LMT | Landsat Metadata Transformation |
LMWS | Landsat Missions Website |
LN2 | Liquid Nitrogen |
LNA | Low-Noise Amplifiers |
LNET | Lustre Networking |
LNext | Landsat Next |
LO | Local Oscillator |
LOA | Letter of Agreement |
LOC | Letter of Cooperation Line of Code |
LOE | Level of Effort |
LON | Longitude |
LOOFA | Landsat 7 On-Orbit Flight Automation |
LOP | Landsat Operational Procedure |
LOS | Loss of Signal or Line-of-Sight |
LP DAAC | Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center |
LPCS | Land Product Characterization System |
LPDS | Level 1 Product Distribution System LDCM Data Product Specification |
LPGS | Landsat Product Generation System |
LPGSUI | Level 1 Product Generation Subsystem User Interface Landsat Product Generation System User Interface |
LPIP | Landsat Product Improvements Project |
LPO | Landsat Program Office LSDS Program Office |
LPS | Landsat 7 Processing System Landsat Processing System |
LPSNG | Landsat Processing System Next Generation |
LPSO | Landsat Project Science Office |
LPT | Limited Performance Test |
LPV | Land Product Validation |
LR | Lower Right |
LRD | Launch Readiness Date |
LRMA | Land Resources Mission Area |
LRMB | LDCM Risk Management Board |
LRR | Launch Readiness Review |
LRS | Land Remote Sensing Landsat Remote Sensing |
LRSP | Land Remote Sensing Program |
LS | Launch Segment |
LSAA | Landsat and Sentinel-2 Archive / Access Landsat Sentinel Archive Access |
LSATH | High-Saturation Radiance |
LSATL | Low-Saturation Radiance |
LSB | Least Significant Bit Low Surface Brightness |
LSC | Landsat Security Committee |
LSCF | Landsat Solar Calibration Frame |
LSDS | Land Satellites Data System |
LSF | Line Spread Function |
LSIMSS | LDCM Scalable Integrated Multi-Mission Support System Landsat Scalable Integrated Multi-Mission Support System Landsat Scalable Integrated Multi-Mission Simulation System |
LSIS | LSDS Science Information System |
LSM | Land Survey Mission |
LSO | LDCM Science Office LSRD Science Office |
LSP | Launch Support Program Logistics Support Plan |
LSQ | Least Squares |
LSQAT | Landsat Science Quality Assurance Team |
LSR | Launch Support Room |
LSRD | LSDS Science Research and Development |
LSS | Launch Services Segment |
LST | Landsat Science Team Land Surface Temperature Landsat Surface Temperature |
LST/E | Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity |
LSTM | Land Surface Temperature Monitoring |
LTA | Long-Term Archive |
LTAP | Long-Term Acquisition Plan |
LTAP-7 | Landsat 7 Long-Term Acquisition Plan |
LTAP-8 | Landsat 8 Long-Term Acquisition Plan |
LTAP-9 | Landsat 9 Long-Term Acquisition Plan |
LTAS | Landsat Trending and Analysis System |
LTI | Legacy Tape Ingest |
LTO | Linear Tape Open |
LTS | LACS Transcription System |
LTTS | LPCS Trending Tool Suite |
LTVA | Limited Technical Vulnerability Assessment |
LTWG | Landsat Technical Working Group |
Ltypical | Typical Radiance |
LUCAS | Land Use/Cover Area Frame Survey |
LULC | Land Use & Land Cover |
LUN | Logical Unit Number |
LUT | Look-Up Table |
LV | Launce Vehicle |
LVA | Launch Vehicle Adapter |
LVDS | Low Voltage Differential Signaling |
LVDT | Linear Variable Differential Transformer |
LVRR | Launch Vehicle Readiness Review |
LWIR | Long Wavelength Infrared |
LXR | Landsat Transfer Radiometer |
m | meter |
M&PCB | Materials and Processes Control Board |
M&PCP | Materials and Processes Control Program |
M&V | Monitoring and Validation |
M-CDR | MOC Critical Design Review |
M-PDF | MOC Preliminary Design Review |
M-SIR | MOC System Integration Review |
M-SRR | MOC System Requirements Review |
M_PDU | Multiplexing Protocol Data Unit |
M2M | Machine-to-Machine |
MA | Mission Archive Multiple Access Major Application Mission Assurance |
MAA | Mission Acquisition Analyst |
MAC | Media Access Control Monitor and Control Subsystem Mass Acceleration Curve |
MACS | MSS-X Archive Conversion System Monitor and Control Subsystem |
MAD | Median Absolute Deviation |
MAE | Materials Assurance Engineer |
MAID | Massive Array of Idle Disks Master Action Item Database |
MAL | Master Activities List |
MAN | Maritime Aerosol Network |
MAM | Mission Assurance Manager |
MAP | Mission Assurance Plan |
MAR | Mission Assurance Requirements |
MARCE | Multi-Attribute Requirements-Capabilities Evaluator |
MAS | MODIS Archive System |
MATLAB | Matrix Laboratory |
MAUT | Multi-attribute Utility Theory |
MAX | Maximum |
MB | Megabyte |
MBO | Management by Objects |
Mbps | Megabit per Second |
MBR | Minimum Bounding Rectangle |
MBSRN | Multiband Spectral Relationship Near-Infrared |
MBSRV | Multiband Spectral Relationship Visible |
MBW | Model-Building Workbook |
MC | MAC Controller or Memory Control |
MCDL | Master Configured Document List Master Controlled Document List |
MCDR | Mission Critical Design Review |
MCE | Mirror Control Electronics |
MCM | Multichip Module |
MCR | Mission Concept Review |
MCS | Monitor and Control Subsystem |
MD | Metrics Database Mission Data |
MD5 | Message-Digital Algorithm 5 Message-Digest Algorithm 5 |
MDA | MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates |
MDD | Metrics Driven Development |
MDF | MOC Directive File Mission Data File |
MDGLS | Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey |
MDH | Mission Data Header |
MDIO | Mission Data Input / Output |
MDL | Metadata Loader |
MDM | Mission Data Management |
MDR | Mission Dress Rehearsal Mission Definition Review |
mDRC | mini-Design Reference Case |
MDS | MMO Database System Metadata Server |
MDSL | Master Data Source List |
MDT | Metadata Target |
ME | Memory Effect |
MEaSUREs | Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments |
MEB | Materials Engineering Branch Main Electronics Box Main Electronics Board |
MEC | Metrics ETL Component |
MECO | Main Engine Cutoff |
MEF | Mission Essential Function |
MEO | Matrixed Engineering Organization |
MEOS | Multi-Mission Earth Observation System |
MEOW | Minimum Expected Observation Window |
MER | Mission Equipment Room |
MERIS | Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
MERRA | Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications |
MERRA-2 | Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 |
MET | Mission Elapsed Time Model Evaluation Tool Meteorological Data |
METAR | METeorological Aerodrome Reports |
METRIC | Satellite-Based Energy Balance for Mapping Evapotranspiration With Internalized Calibration |
MEXT | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Japan) |
MF or mf | Minor Frame |
MFC | Microsoft Foundation Classes MAC Fetch CPF |
MFPS | Major Frame Processing Subsystem |
MFR | Multifunctional Receiver |
MG | Metadata Generator |
MG1 | McMurdo, Antarctica |
MGS | MODIS Ground Station Management Server |
MGT | Management Target |
MHz | Megahertz |
MI | Mutual Information |
MIG | Meeting Information Guide |
MIL | Materials Identification List MAC Inventory L0Ra |
MIN | Minimum |
MIR | Mid-Infrared |
MIRBI | Mid-Infrared Burn Index |
MIS | Master Integrated Schedule Management Information System |
MISR | Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MISTE | Modular Integrated Simulation and Test Environment |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MJF | Major Frame |
MJP | MAC Job Processor |
ML | Machine Learning |
ML1R | Mission Level 1 Requirements |
MLC | Most Likely Case |
MLDRCS | Master LDRCS |
MLH | Maximum Likelihood Estimate |
MLI | MACS to LAM Interface Multi-Layer Insulation |
MLT | Mean Local Time |
MM | Multi-Mission Mission Manager |
mm | Millimeter |
MM&A | Mission Monitor & Analysis |
mm/hr | Millimeters per Hour |
MMA | Mission Management Analyst |
MMIO | Modified Moravec Interest Operator |
MMO | Mission Management Office |
MMOIO | Mission Management Office Information Officer |
MMOSA | MMO Security Activity |
MMOSE | Mission Management Office Systems Engineer |
MMR | Mission Requirements Review |
MMS | MDGLS Management System Multi-Mission Modular Spacecraft |
MMU | Memory Management Unit |
MNDWI | Modified Normalized Differences Wetness Index |
MO&DSD | Mission Operations and Data System Directorate |
MOA | Memorandum of Agreement |
MOC | Mission Operations Center |
MOCRD | Mission Operations Center Requirements Document |
MOD | MODIS Terra |
MOD09 | MODIS Surface Reflectance – Terra Satellite |
MOD11 | MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity – Terra Satellite |
MOD13 | MODIS Vegetation Indices – Terra Satellite |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MODNET | MO&DSD Operational/Development Network |
MODTRAN | Moderate Resolution Atmospheric Transmission |
MOE | Mission Operations Element |
MOERD | Mission Operations Element Requirements Document |
MOI | Moment of Inertia |
MOM | Mission Operations Manager |
MOP | Mission Operations Plan |
MOPSS | Mission Operations Planning and Scheduling System |
MOR | Mission Operations Room Mission Operations Review |
MORKA | Mission Operations Readiness Key Activities |
MORM | Mission Operations Readiness Manager |
MOS | Mission Operations Simulation |
MOTS | Mission Off-The-Shelf Military Off-The-Shelf Modified Off-The-Shelf |
MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
MOVE | Mission Operations Voice Enhancement |
MOWG | Mission Operations Working Group |
MP | Multiprocessor Mission Planner or Mission Planning |
MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group |
MPLS | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
MPR | Monthly Progress Review |
MPS | MODIS Processing System Mission Plan System Mission Planning and Scheduling |
MPSR | Management Program Status Review Monthly Project Status Report |
MR | Management Reserve |
MRAM | Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory |
MRB | Milestone Review Board Material Review Board |
MRC | Metrics Reporting Component Metadata Record |
MRF | Meta Raster Format |
MRG | Metrics Report GUI |
MRLC | Multiresolution Land Characteristics |
MRR | Mission Requirements Review |
MRT | Mission Readiness Testing |
MRTG | Multirouter Traffic Grapher |
MS | Multispectral Mission Simulations |
ms | millisecond |
MSA | Master Schedule of Activities |
MSAVI | Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index |
msb | Most Significant Bit |
MSB | Most Significant Byte |
MSCD | Mirror Scan Correction Data |
MSE | Mission Systems Engineering |
MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |
MSI | Multispectral Instrument Multispectral Imager |
MSK | Receive Antenna Horizon Mask Message Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka |
MSM | Multiservice Mobility Mission Simulations Manager Management Switch Module Mission Operations Center Systems Manager |
MSO | Mission Support Office |
Msps | Mega-Symbols per Second |
MSPSP | Missile System Prelaunch Safety Data Package |
MSR | Monthly Status Review |
MSS | Multispectral Scanner Mass Storage System |
MSS-A | Multispectral Scanner - Archive Format |
MSS-P | Multispectral Scanner - Processed Format |
MSS-R | Multispectral Scanner - Raw |
MSS-X | Multispectral Scanner data, reformatted CCT-X data |
MSSG | Microwave Sensors Subgroup |
MST | Mission Support Team |
MTA | Metadata |
MTASS | Multi-Mission Three-Axis Stabilized Spacecraft |
MTBF | Mean Time Before Failure |
MTBS | Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity |
MTDSS | MS and TM Data Subsetting System |
MTF | Modulation Transfer Function |
MTFC | Modulation Transfer Function Compensation |
MTHR | Mission Transition Handover Review |
MTI | Matera, Italy |
MTL | Level 1 Metadata or Metadata Text File Extension |
MTP | Distribution Product Metadata |
MTR | Mission Transition Review |
MTS | MDS Transformation Services |
MTTR | Mean Time to Restore Mean Time to Repair Mean Time to Recovery |
MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
MU | Mobile Unit |
MUA | Materials Usage Agreement |
MUSES | Multiple User System for Earth Sensing |
mW | milliWatt |
MWD | Moving Window Display |
MWIR | Mid-wave Infrared |
MXL | Multimodeling eXchange Language |
MYD | MODIS Aqua |
MYD09 | MODIS Surface Reflectance – Aqua Satellite |
MYD11 | MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity – Aqua Satellite |
MYD13 | MODIS Vegetation Indices – Aqua Satellite |
MYSA | Malaysian Space Agency |
N/A | Not Applicable |
N/T | Normal-Through |
N0 | Noise Density |
N2 | N-Squared |
NAD27 | North American Datum 1927 |
NAD83 | North American Datum of 1983 |
NAIP | National Agriculture Imagery Program |
NAK | Negative Acknowledgement |
NALCMS | North American Land Change Monitoring System |
NAPP | National Aerial Photography Program |
NARA | National Archive and Records Administration |
NARR | North American Regional Reanalysis |
NAS | NASA Assurance Standard Network Attached Storage |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NASADEM | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Digital Elevation Model |
NASCOM | NASA Communications |
NASDA | National Space Development Agency (Japan) |
NASRDA | National Space Research Agency (Nigeria) |
NAVOCEANO | Naval Oceanographic Office |
NB | Narrow Band |
NBAR | Nadir Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Adjusted Reflectance |
NBII | National Biological Information Infrastructure |
NBR | Normalized Burn Ratio or Navigation Base Reference |
NBRT | Normalized Burn Ratio Thermal |
NCAC | National Civil Applications Committee |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCAS | National Carbon Accounting System |
NCC | Network Control Center |
NCI | Non-configured Item |
NCR | Network Change Request Non-conformance Report |
NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
NCT | Network Connectivity Test |
NDA | Non-Disclosure Agreement |
NDBC | National Data Buoy Center |
NDE | Non-Destructive Examination |
NDEP | National Digital Elevation Program |
NDF | NLAPS Data Format |
NDI | Non-Development Items |
NDIA | National Defense Industrial Association |
NDMI | Normalized Difference Moisture Index |
NDOP | National Digital Orthoimagery Program |
NDP | National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive (NSLRSDA) Data Package |
NDPF | NASA Data Processing Facility |
NDSI | Normalized Difference Snow Index |
NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
NDWI | Normalized Difference Water Index |
NErT | Noise Equivalent Delta Temperature |
NED | Natural Elevation Data National Elevation Data |
NEDL | Noise Equivalent Detector Radiance Noise Equivalent Differential Luminance |
NEDT | Noise Equivalent Detector Temperature Noise Equivalent delta Temperature |
NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
NEN | Near Earth Network |
NENUG | Near Earth Network User’s Guide |
NEOG | National Earth Observation Group |
NEOS | National Earth Orientation Service |
NEPAG | NASA EEE Parts Assurance Group |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
NET | No Earlier Than |
NetCDF | Network Common Data Form |
NewOps | New Operational Procedures System |
NEX | NASA Earth Exchange |
NFS | Network File System |
NG | National Guard |
NGA | National Geospatial Intelligence Agency |
NGAC | National Geospatial Advisory Committee |
NGDA | National Geospatial Data Asset |
NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
NGP | National Geospatial Program |
NGS | National Geodetic Survey |
NGTOC | National Geospatial Technical Operations Center |
NH | Northern Hemisphere |
NHAP | National High Altitude Photography |
NHB | NASA Handbook |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NIER | National Institute of Environmental Research |
NIFC | National Interagency Fire Center |
NIIRS | National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale |
NIOB | Niobrara, Nebraska |
NIPD | Network Interface Planning Document |
NIR | Near-infrared |
NIRD | Network Interface Requirements Document |
NIS | National Imagery Summit |
NISAR | NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar |
NISN | NASA Integrated Services Network |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NITF | National Imagery Transformation Format |
NKAU | National Space Agency of Ukraine |
NLAPS | National Land Archive Production System |
NLCD | National Land Cover Dataset National Land Cover Database |
NLI | National Land Imaging |
NLIP | National Land Imaging Program |
NLIR | National Land Imaging Requirements |
NLSR | Nighttime Light Surface Radiance |
nm | Nanometer |
NMAS | National Map Accuracy Standards |
NMD | National Mapping Discipline |
NMDB | Navigation and Mission Design Branch |
NMS | Network Management Software |
NN | Nearest Neighbor |
NOA | New Obligating Authority |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOC | NUGS Operations Concept Network Operations Center |
NOLAN | Nascom Operational Local Area Network |
NOM | Network Operations Manager |
NOR | NORAD Two Line Element Message |
NORAD | North American Air Defense North American Aerospace Defense Command |
NOTAM | Notice to Airmen |
NOVAS | Naval Definition Vector Astronomy Software Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software |
NP | Narrative Procedure |
NPD | NASA Policy Directive |
NPI | Norwegian Polar Institute |
NPL | National Physical Laboratory |
NPM | Node Package Manager |
NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
NPR | NASA Procedural Requirements |
NPS | National Park Service |
NPSL | NASA Parts Selection List |
NPT | Network Performance Test |
NPV | Net Present Value Net Pulse Value |
NRCA | Nonconformance Reporting and Corrective Action |
NRCS | Natural Resources Conservation Service |
NRD | Network Requirements Document |
NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
NRSCC | National Remote Sensing Center of China |
NRT | Network Readiness Test Near Real Time |
NRT-IC | Near Real Time for International Cooperators |
NRTL | Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory |
NRZ-L | Non-Return to Zero-Level |
NRZ-M | Non-Return to Zero-Mark |
NSA | National Security Agency |
NSC | Norwegian Space Centre |
NSDI | Normalized Snow Difference Index National Spatial Data Infrastructure |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NSG | Neustrelitz, Germany Ground Station |
NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
NSLRSDA | National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive |
NSM | Network and Security Manager |
NSMC | National Satellite Meteorological Center |
NSN/NSG | Neustrelitz Ground Station (Germany) |
NSO | Nadir Simultaneous Overpass Netherlands Space Office |
NSOF | NOAA Satellite Operations Facility |
NSPAR | Nonstandard Parts Approval Request |
NSS | NASA Safety Standard |
NSSDA | National Standards for Spatial Data Accuracy |
NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center |
NSTC | National Science and Technology Council |
NSTT | New Space Task Team |
NTE | Not-To-Exceed |
NTIA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration |
NTP | Network Time Protocol |
NTR | New Technology Report |
NUC | Non-Uniformity Correction |
NUGS | NASA-USGS Joint Ground System |
NUP | North Up |
NUSO | National Uncrewed Systems Office |
NVM | Non-Volatile Memory |
NWI | National Wetlands Inventory |
NWIS | National Water Information System |
NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
NWS | National Weather Service |
O&M | Operations & Maintenance |
O&S | Operations & Sustaining |
O-CCB | Operations Configuration Control Board |
O-PRB | Operations Products Review Board |
OA | Operational Archive Operations Agreement Operations Analyst Orbital Alliant Tech Systems Office Automation |
OAC | Opportunity Assessment Code |
OAD | Operational Algorithm Description |
OAG | Office of Acquisitions and Grants |
OAR | On-Orbit Acceptance Review Operational Acceptance Review |
OAV | Operational Verification Assessment |
OB | Orbit Reference Frame |
OBC | Onboard Computer Onboard Calibrator Onboard Blackbody Calibrator |
OBE | Overcome By Events |
OBP | Onboard Processor |
OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
OBS | Organizational Breakdown Structure |
Obs-IRD | Observatory Interface Requirements Document |
OC | Online Cache or Operations Concept |
OCAO | Office of the Chief Administrative Officer |
OCC | Operator Control Console or Occurrence |
OCD | Operations Concept Document |
OCE | Office of Chief Engineering |
OCI | Organization Conflict of Interest |
OCIO | Office of the Chief Information Officer |
OCM | Operational Configuration Management Orbital Conjunction Message |
OD | Orbit Determination Orbital Debris |
ODBC | Open Database Connectivity |
ODC | Other Direct Costs Open Data Cube |
ODI | On-Demand Interface |
ODL | Object Description Language Object Definition Language |
ODNI | Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
ODOS | Order Distribution and Order Status |
ODS | Order Distribution Service |
OE | Operations Engineer |
OEI | Office of Enterprising Information |
OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer Oracle Enterprise Manager |
OFE | Order Fulfillment Element |
OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium |
OH | Optical Head |
OHS | Order Handler Subsystem |
OIRD | Observatory Interface Requirements Document |
OIS | OLI-2 Interface Simulator |
OITL | Orbit-In-The-Life |
OIV | On-orbit Initialization and Verification |
OJT | On-The-Job Training |
OLAF | OPO Laser Alignment Facilities |
OLAP | On-Line Analytical Processing |
OLCI | Ocean and Land Color Instrument |
OLI | Operational Land Imager |
OLI-2 | Operational Land Imager-2 |
OLS | Ordinary Least Square |
OLTWG | Old Landsat Technical Working Group |
OM | Operations and Maintenance |
OMA | Oblique Mercator Type A |
OMB | Office of Management and Budget or Oblique Mercator Type B |
OMF | Order Metadata File |
OMI | Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
OMP | Operations Management Plan |
OMS | Optimum Management System |
ONR | Office of Naval Research |
OO | Orbit Oriented |
OOB | Out-of-Band |
OPA | Organizational Process Asset |
OPeNDAP | Open-Source Project for Network Data Access Protocol |
OPM | Office of Personnel Management |
OPM3 | Organizational Management Maturity Model |
OPO | Optical Parameter Oscillator |
OPR | Office of Primary Responsibility |
OPS | Operations |
Ops Con | Operations Concept |
Ops GUI | Operations Graphical User Interface |
OQPSK | Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
OR | Operations Readiness Oracle Reduction |
ORB | Object Request Broker Ocean Radar Backscatter |
ORC | Optimized Row Columnar |
ORE | Operations Readiness Exercise |
OREO | Operational Readiness Exercises and Observations |
ORIT | Oracle Reduction Integation and Test |
ORR | Operations Readiness Review |
ORST | Oracle Reductioin System Test |
ORT | Operational Readiness Test |
OS | Operating System OLI-2 Simulator |
OSAM | On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing |
OSB | Observatory System Branch |
OSC | Orbital Science Corporation |
OSD | Object Storage Device |
OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
OSS | Object Storage Server Operations Support Simulations Open Source Software |
OSSMA | Office of Systems Safety and Mission Assurance |
OST | Object Storage Target |
OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
OTB | Over Target Baseline |
OTF | Optical Transfer Function OLI Test Facility On The Fly |
OTS | OLI-TIRS Subsetter Over Target Schedule Off-The-Shelf |
OU | Organizational Unit |
OUI | Operator User Interface |
OV | Operational Verification |
OV-1 | Operational View 1 |
OVA | Operations Validation and Acceptance |
OVAD | Operational Verification Acceptance Document |
OVAP | Operational Verification Acceptance Period |
OWASP | Open Web Application Security Project |
OWB | Oracle Warehouse Browser Oracle Warehouse Builder |
OWSGUI | Oracle Web Service GUI |
P&C | Project Management and Controls |
P&S | Planning and Scheduling |
P/D | Programmable Demodulator |
P/N | Part Number |
P/P | Patch Panel |
P3I | Preplanned Product Improvement |
PaaS | Platform as a Service |
PAC | Partial Aperture Calibrator Prince Albert, Canada Ground Station |
PACE | Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem |
PACI | Payload and Attitude Control Interface |
PAIV | Project Acceptance and Implementation Variance |
PALMA | Portfolio Analysis Machine |
PAM | Pluggable Authentication Module |
PAN | Production Acceptance Notification Panchromatic |
PAP | Primary Archive Program |
PAPH | Pseudo-Average Pulse Height |
PAPL | Project Approved Parts List |
PAR | Post-Assessment Report |
PASC | Partial Aperture Solar Calibrator |
PB | Playback or Petabyte |
PBL | Project Baseline Log |
PBS | Project Breakdown Structure |
PBTLM | PB X-Band Housekeeping Telemetry |
PC | Personal Computer Polyconic Production Control Program Charter Property Clerk |
PCA | Physical Configuration Audit Physical Channel Access Point of Closest Approach |
Pcache | Processing Cache |
PCB | Parts Control Board Project Control Board Product Control Board |
PCD | Payload Correction Data |
PCDS | Payload Correction Data Subsystem |
PCI | Peripheral Component Interface Peripheral Component Interconnect |
PCI-E or PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
PCI-X | Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended |
PCM | Pulse Code Modulation |
PCP | Parts Control Plan |
PCR | Project Closeout Review |
PCRE | Perl Compatible Regular Expression |
PCS | Process Control Subsystem Product Control Subsystem Production Control Subsystem |
PCSS | Program Coordinate Systems Standards |
PCTUN | Percent Uncertainty |
PCU | Power Control Unit |
PD | Product Distribution Position Description Program Directive |
PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
PDB | Program Decision Board Project Database |
PDD | Presidential Decision Directive |
PDE | Propulsion Drive Electronics |
Portable Document Format Payload Data Formatter |
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PDI | Product Delivery Interface |
PDL | Product Design Lead |
PDM | Precedence Diagramming Method |
PDPS | Planning and Data Processing Segment |
PDR | Product Delivery Record Preliminary Design Review |
PDRD | Product Delivery Record Discrepancy |
PDRM | Product Delivery Receipt Mechanism |
PDS | Product Distribution System |
PDU | Protocol Data Unit Power Distribution Unit |
PE | Proficiency Exercises |
PED | Personal Electronic Device Portable Electronic Device |
PER | Performance Evaluation Review Pre-Environmental Review |
PERT | Program Evaluation and Review Technique |
PF | Polarization Factor |
PF1 | Poker Flats 1 |
PFPA | Prime Focal Plane Assembly |
PFR | Problem / Failure Report |
PFS | Product Functional Specification |
PG | Product Generation |
PgC | Program Charter |
PGE | Product Generation Element |
PgIMS | Program Integrated Master Schedule |
PgMP | Program Management Plan |
PGN | Polar Ground Network |
PGS | Product Generation System (Generic Name for NLAPS) Product Generation Subsystem |
PgWBS | Program Work Breakdown Structure |
PHA | Preliminary Hazard Analysis |
PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor |
PI | Primary Investigator Principal Investigator |
PIA | Project Implementation Agreement Privacy Impact Assessment |
PIB | Payload Interface Board |
PICS | Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Site Planetary Image Cartography System |
PID | Process Identification |
PIE | Payload Interface Electronics |
PII | Personally Identifiable Information |
PIL | Parts Identification List |
PIMS | Project Integrated Master Schedule |
PIP | Premium Internet Protocol |
PITL | Pass-In-The-Life |
PIV | Personal Identity Verification |
PIXELQA | Pixel Quality Assessment |
PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
PKO | Project Kick-Off |
PL | Public Law |
PL-DRO | Phase-Locked Dielectric Resonance Oscillator |
PL/SQL | Procedural Language / Structured Query Language |
PLA | Payload Adapter |
PLAR | Postlaunch Assessment Review |
PLRA | Program Level Requirements Agreement Program Level Requirements Appendix |
PM | Phase Modulation Program Management Project Management |
PMB | Performance Measurement Baseline |
PMBOK | Project Management Book Of Knowledge |
PMC | Performance Monitoring Counter Program Management Council Payload Mode Control |
PMEF | Primary Mission Essential Function |
PMI | Project Management Institute |
PMMM | Program Management Maturity Model |
PMO | Persistent Mission Object Portfolio Management Office |
PMP | Project Management Professional Project Management Plan Procurement Management Plan |
PMPDR | Physical Media Product Delivery Record |
PMPDRD | Physical Media PDR Discrepancy |
PMRT | Post-Mission Readiness Testing |
PMSC | Program Management Systems Committee |
PMSEIT | Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Integration and Test |
PMT | Performance Measurement Technique |
PN | Pseudorandom Noise or Pseudo-Noise |
PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
PNTR | Pointer |
PO | Project Owner Purchase Order |
POA&M | Plan of Action and Milestones |
POC | Point of Contact |
POJO | Plain Old Java Object |
POL | Policy Polarimetric Radar |
POLSA | Polska Agencja Kosmiczna (Polish Space Agency) |
POP | Point-Of-Presence Point of Performance Period of Performance |
POS | Position and Orientation System |
POSC | Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation |
POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for Unix |
POT | Product Order Tables |
PP | Planning Package Pull-Pin |
PPF | Payload Processing Facility |
PPL | Preferred Parts List |
PPM | Program Project Management |
ppm | Parts Per Million |
PPOC | Procurement Point of Contact |
PPP | Project Protection Plan |
PPQA | Process and Product Quality Assurance |
PPR | Post-Pass Report |
PPROC | Post-Processing |
PPS | Pulse Per Second |
PPT | Proficiency Pass Training |
PQ | Pixel Quality |
PQA | Palm Query Application |
PR | Program Review Problem Report Product Request Purchase Request |
PRA | Paperwork Reduction Act Probabilistic Risk Assessment |
PRB | Problem Report Message |
PRD | Project Reference Database |
PRDS | Project Reference Database System |
PRI | Priority Mask Message |
PRISM | Professional Resources in Information Systems Management Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model |
PRL | Pull Remote Logs |
PRN | Pseudorandom Noise Pattern |
PRNU | Photo Response Non-uniformity |
PROD | Production |
PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory |
PROP | Propulsion |
PS | Polar Stereographic Production Server |
Ps | Probability of Mission Success |
PSA | Pre-Security Assessment |
PSD | Power Spectral Density |
PSF | Point Spread Function |
PSG | Pull and Send GPR |
PSGUI | Production Server Graphical User Interface |
PSHSCCSS | Percent Slope, Hillshade, Cloud, Cloud Shadow, and Snow |
PSI | PCS Startup IAS |
PSK | Phase Shift Keyed |
PSLA | Project Service Level Agreement |
PSM | Project Safety Manager |
PSMON | Power Status Monitor |
PSR | Priority/Service Request Mask File Preship Review Preshipment Review Program Status Review |
PSS | Pull and Send SSOH |
PSU | Power Supply Unit |
PSW1 | Partial Surface Water 1 |
PTA | Post-Test Analysis |
PTM | Principal Task Manager |
PTP | Primary Transfer Program Programmable Telemetry Processor |
PTR | Post-Test Review |
PTS | Project Task Structure |
PUB | Publication |
PUP | Perfectly Uniform Pitch |
PV | Planned Value |
PVCS | Polytron Version Control System |
PVL | Parameter Value Language |
PWA | Printed Wire Assembly |
PWB | Printed Wiring Board |
PWBS | Project Work Breakdown Structure |
PWC | PCS Work Order Controller |
PWG | PCS Work Order Generator |
PWL | PCS Work Order Scheduler Lite |
PWS | Project Website PCS Work Order Scheduler |
PWSL | Potential Wetland Soil Landscape |
PWV | Precipitable Water Vapor |
PyCCD | Python-based CCD |
Q | Quadrature Channel Quantized Output |
Q&A | Quality and Accounting |
Q1 | Quarter 1 |
Q1G | L1G Quality Assurance |
Q1R | L1R Quality Assurance |
Q2 | Quarter 2 |
Q3 | Quarter 3 |
Q4 | Quarter 4 |
QA | Quality Assurance Quality Assessment |
QAA | Quality Assurance Audit |
QAS | Quality Assessment Subsystem |
QASP | Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan |
QB | Quality Board Quality Band |
QC | Quality Control |
QCM | Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
QFS | Quick File System |
QMM | Landsat Quarterly Management Meeting |
QMP | Quality Management Plan |
QMS | Quality Management System |
QOCI | Qt Oracle Call Interface |
QPSK | Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
QTH | Quartz Tungsten Halogen |
QUI | Quality Assurance User Interface |
QWIP | Quantum Well Infrared Photometers |
QWR | Quarterly Web Review |
R&D | Research and Development |
R&D | Reference and Validation |
R-C | Resistor-Capacitor |
R-S | Reed-Solomon |
R/T | Receive/Transmit |
R0C | A stage of Radiometric Processing; Radiometric Calibration |
R0R | A stage of Radiometric Processing; Radiometric Artifacts Collection |
R1 | Release 1 |
R1R | A stage of Radiometric Processing; Cosmetic Changes |
R2 | Release 2 |
R21 | Resource 21 |
R3 | Release 3 |
R53 | Amazon Route 53 |
RA | Right Ascension Risk Assessment |
RAC | Real Application Cluster Risk Assessment Code |
RAD | Radiometric Rapid Application Development |
RadCalNet | Radiometric Calibration Network |
RadCaTS | Radiometric Calibration Test Site |
RADSATQA | Radiometric Saturation |
RadSim | Radiometry Simulator |
RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
RAM | Random Access Memory Responsibility Assignment Matrix Resource Allocation Matrix |
RAMP | Radarsat Antarctica Mapping Project |
RAS | Reliability, Availability, Serviceability |
RAT | Regression Analysis Test Release Acceptance Test |
RBD | Risk Based Decision |
RBS | Reflective Band Sensor Risk Breakdown Structure |
RBST | Role-Based Security Training |
RBV | Return Beam Vidicon |
RC | Real Constellation |
RCA | Radio Corporation of America |
RCA-EO | Requirements, Capabilities, and Analysis for Earth Observations |
RCC | Raw Computer Compatible |
RCCA | Root Cause and Corrective Action |
RCM | Resource Configuration Manager RADARSAT Constellation Mission |
RCMAP | Rangeland Condition, Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection |
RCN | Revision Control Number |
RCR | Remote Controlled Repository |
RCS | Reaction Control System Reference Climate Station |
RD | Requirements Document |
RDA | Research Data Alliance |
RDAC | Redundant Disk Array Controller |
RDB | Requirements Database Baseline |
RDBMS | Related Database Management System |
RDC | Remote Desktop Connection |
RDCS | Raw Data Capture Subsystem |
RDM | Radiation Design Margin |
RDPS | Raw Data Processing Subsystem |
RDS | Raw Data Subsetter Relational Database Service Remote Desktop Services |
RDSS | RCC Data Subsetter Raw Data Subsetting Subsystem |
RE | Requirements Engineer and Responsible Engineer |
REC | Recovery Time |
REF | Reference |
REL | Relative |
REQ | Service Request Message Requirement |
RER | Relative Edge Response |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
REVCM | Revised Cloud Mask |
RF | Radio Frequency |
RFA | Request for Action |
RFC | Request for Comments |
RFI | Request for Information |
RFID | Root File Identification Radio-Frequency Identification |
RFO | Request for Offer |
RFP | Request for Proposal |
RFQ | Request for Quote |
RFR | Request for Record Run for Record |
RFS | Radio Frequency System |
RG | Relative Gain |
RGAC | RADARSAT-1 Global Archive Consolidation |
RGB | Red Green and Blue Color Value |
RGE | Research Grade Evaluation |
RH | Red-High or Right Hand |
RHC | Right-Hand Circular |
RHCP | Right-Hand Circularly Polarized |
RHEL | Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
RHORC | Rayleigh-corrected Reflectance |
RHS | Right-Hand Side Right-Hand SLO |
RHSS | RHEL Satellite Server |
RIDS | Review Item Discrepancies |
RIM | Risk Information Management Tool |
RIO | Risks, Issues, and Opportunities |
RIPL | Risk Identification Prompt List |
RIRLS | Robust Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares |
RIS24 | 24-bit Raster Image |
RIT | Rochester Institute of Technology |
RITSO | Regional IT Security Officer |
RL | Red-Low |
RLN | Resource Load Network |
RLUT | Response Linearization Look-Up Table |
RM | Requirements Management Risk Manager or Resource Manager |
RMAN | Recovery Manager |
RMAP | Remote Memory Access Protocol |
RMB | Risk Management Board |
RMD | Risk Management Database |
RMF | Risk Management Framework |
RMM | Risk Mitigation Maneuvers |
RMP | Requirements Management Plan Risk Management Plan |
RMR | Risk Management Record |
RMS | Root Mean Square or Risk Management System |
RMSE | Root Mean Square Error |
RMSEr | Radial Root Mean Square Error |
RMT | Risk Management Tool |
RN | Random Noise |
RO | Receiving Officer |
ROC | Real-Time Operations Console |
ROI | Return on Investment Region of Interest |
ROIC | Read-Out Integrated Circuit |
ROLO | Robotic Lunar Observatory |
ROM | Rough Order of Magnitude |
ROS | Relative Operational Sequence |
ROSCOSMOS | Russian Space Agency |
ROSHYDROMET | Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring |
RPC | Remote Procedure Call Rational Polynomial Coefficient |
RPE | Rational Publishing Engine |
RPI | Rumpin, Indonesia Ground Station |
RPM | Revolutions per Minute RPM Package Manager |
RPS | Radiometric Processing Subsystem |
RR | Readiness Review |
RRAS | Routing and Remote Access Services |
RRB | Reduced Resolution Browse |
Rrs | Remote Sensing Reflectance |
RSA | Rivest-Shamir-Adleman |
RSB | Remote Sensing Branch |
RSD | Remote Sensing Division |
RSDO | Rapid Spacecraft Development Office |
RSDP | Rapid Spacecraft Development Office |
RSP | Real-Time Science Processing |
RSPP | Robotic System Protection Plan |
RSR | Relative Spectral Responses |
RSS | Reuse Subsystem Really Simple Syndication Rich Site Summary Root Sum Square |
RST | Remote Sensing Technologies |
RT | Real Time or Radiative Transfer |
RTA | Roof Top Antenna |
RTC | Remote Telemetry and Command Unit Remote Telemetry Command |
RTCS | Relative Time Command Sequence |
RTF | Rich Text Format |
RTK | Real-Time Kinematic |
RTO | Real Time Operations |
RtoO | Research-to-Development-to-Operations |
RTS | Relative Time Sequence |
RTT | Round Trip Time |
RTTM | Requirements-To-Test Matrix |
RTTOV | Radiative Transfer (RT) for Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) |
RVM | Requirements Verification Matrix |
RVPN | Railroad Valley Playa |
RWA | Reaction Wheel Assembly |
RWOC | Radiometric Work Order Common |
RX | Receive |
S&O | Search and Order |
S&CMP | Stakeholder & Communications Management Plan |
S-NPP | Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership |
S/C | Spacecraft |
S/T | Straight-Through |
S/W | Software |
S2 | Sentinel-2 |
S2QWG | Sentinel-2 Quality Working Group |
S2VT | Sentinel-2 Validation Team |
S3 | Amazon Simple Storage Service |
SA | Spacecraft Analyst Single Access Systems Administrator Storage and Archive Subsystem System Architect |
SA-AC | Storage Archive – Archive Cache |
SA-IC | Storage and Archive – Internal Cache |
SA-PC | Storage Archive – Processing Cache |
SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly Solar Azimuth Angle |
SaaS | Software as a Service |
SAC | Satellite Application Centre (South Africa) |
SADA | Solar Array Drive Assembly |
SADD | System Algorithm Description Document |
SAFe | Scaled Agile Framework |
SAG | System Administrator Guide |
SAGUI | Storage and Archive Graphical User Interface |
SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |
SAM | Scan Angle Monitor Storage Archive Manager |
SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
SAMP | Software Acquisition Management Plan |
SAN | Storage Area Network |
SanDiA | Sankey Diagram Application |
SANS | System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute |
SANSA | South African National Space Agency |
SAP | Systems Applications and Products Software Assurance Plan |
SAPMSO | Space Asset Protection Mission Support Office |
SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar Spacecraft Acceptance Review |
SARF | System Access Request Form |
SARR | Security Assessment Response Report |
SAS | Serial Attached SCSI Solar Array Simulator |
SASS | Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets |
SAT | Site Acceptance Testing |
SATA | Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
SatAPI | Satellite Application Programming Interface |
SATO | Science Algorithms to Operations |
SAVI | Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index |
SAW | Systems Analysis Workgroup |
SAWG | Software Assurance Working Group |
SB | SoftBench Simulator |
SBA | Societal Benefit Area |
SBAF | Spectral Band Adjustment Factor |
SBC | Single Board Computer |
SBCG | System Build and Configuration Guide |
SBG | Software Build Guide Surface Biology and Geology |
SBM | Serena Business Manager Solutions Business Manager |
SBRS | Santa Barbara Remote Sensing |
SBS | Subsetter System |
SBU | Sensitive But Unclassified |
SC | Spacecraft or Science Campaign |
SC-GND | Spacecraft to Ground |
SCA | Sensor Chip Assembly Snow Covered Area Security Configuration Assessment Static Code Analyzer |
SCAMA | Switching, Conferencing, and Monitoring Arrangement Station Conferencing and Monitoring Assembly |
SCAN | Soil Climate Analysis Network |
SCB | Schedule Control Board |
SCC | Stress Corrosion Cracking System Control Center Station Control Computer |
SCD | Small Conversion Device |
SCDR | Spacecraft Critical Design Review |
SCES | Station Contact Execution Summary |
SCH | Contact Schedule Message |
SCI | Software Configuration Item |
SCID | Spacecraft Identifier |
SCL | Signal Conditioning Unit - Lower Equipment Module |
SCLAST | Time Since Last Change |
SCM | Software Configuration Management Shared Container Migration |
SCMAG | Change Magnitude |
SCMP | Software Configuration Management Plan |
SCMQA | Spectral Model Quality |
SCN | Scan |
SCP | Standard Controls Processor Secure Copy Protocol |
SCR | System Concept Review Software Configuration Request Standard Collection Request Special Collection Request Satellite Cross-calibration Radiometer |
SCRC | Special Collection Request Cancellation |
SCRIL | Smart Card Required for Interactive Login |
SCRU | Special Collection Request Update |
SCS | Scan-Correlated Shift Satellite Checkout Station NOAA/IPO Space and Communications Segment |
SCSS | Sass Cascading Style Sheets |
SCSI | Small Computer Software Interface |
SCSTAB | Spectral Stability Period |
SCTIME | Time of Spectral Change |
SCTR | Special Calibration Test Requirements |
SD | South Dakota or Scan Direction |
SDAT | Special Data Acquisition Tool |
SDAV | Spatial Data Analysis & Visualization |
SDB | Satellite-derived Bathymetry |
SDCG | Space Data Coordination Group |
SDD | Software Design Document Station Description Document |
SDDS | Seamless Data Distribution System |
SDF | Software Development File |
SDG | Sustainable Development Goals |
SDK | Software Development Kit |
SDLC | System Development Life Cycle Software Development Life Cycle |
SDLT | Super DLT |
SDM | Silo Data Manager |
SDMP | Software Development Management Plan |
SDN | South Dakota Network |
SDP | Software Development Plan Science Data Production Science Data Processing |
SDP&I | Science Data Processing and Infrastructure |
SDPE | Science Data Processing and Engineering |
SDPS | Support Data Processing Subsystem Science Data Processing Segment |
SDR | System Design Review or Software-defined Radio |
SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory |
SDS | Scientific Data Set Space Defense Squadron |
SDU | Service Data Unit |
SDVF | Software Development and Validation Facility Spacecraft Development Verification Facility |
SDW | Seamless Data Warehouse |
SE | Systems Engineer Systems Engineering |
SEA | Sensor Azimuth Angle |
SeaDAS | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor Data Analysis System |
SeaWiFS | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor |
SEB | Source Evaluation Board |
SEBAL | Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land |
SED | Software Engineering Department Stream Editor |
SEE | Single-Event Effect or Science Execution Environment Software Engineering Environment |
SEFI | Single Event Functional Interrupt |
SEI | Software Engineering Institute |
SEIT | System Engineer Integration and Test |
SEL | Single-Event Latchup or Software Engineer Lead |
SELC | System Engineering Lifecycle |
SelfDef | Self-Defining CMDA format |
SEM | Security Engineered Machine |
SEMP | Systems Engineering Management Plan |
SEO | Systems Engineering Office |
SES | Schedule and Exchange System |
SET | Systems Engineering Team |
SETA | Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance |
SEU | Single-Event Upset – Anomaly Event |
SEV | Severity or Sun-Earth-Vehicle angle |
SEWP | Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement |
SEZ | Sensor Zenith Angle |
SF | Service Framework |
SFBME | Short-Form Brouwer Mean Element |
SFC | Scene Framing Component |
SFCG | Space Frequency Coordination Group |
SFFT | Short-Form Functionality Testing |
SfM | Structure from Motion |
SFT | SIFMT File Transfer |
SFTP | SSH File Transfer Protocol |
Sg/SG6 | Svalbard Ground Station |
SG1 | Svalbard, Norway |
SGDAWG | Space to Ground Data Acquisition Working Group |
SGI | Silicon Graphics Incorporated Shadnagar, India Ground Station |
SGICD | Space to Ground Interface Control Document |
SGLT | Space to Ground Link Terminal |
SGO | Satellite and Ground Systems Operations |
SGP4 | Simplified General Perturbations |
SGS | Svalbard Ground Station Svalsat Ground Station |
SGT | Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies |
SH | Southern Hemisphere |
SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
Shapelib | Shapefile Library |
SHC | Shutter Histogram Characterization |
SHS | Second Half Scan |
SHSERR | Second Half Scan Error |
SI | Searchable Inventory Space Imaging Science Instrument International System of Units Système International or Spectral Indices |
SIAT | Spectral Image Annotation Tape |
SIC | Spacecraft Identifier Code |
SID | Searchable Inventory Database or System ID |
SIDECAR | System for Image Digitization Enhancement Control and Retrieval |
SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
SIFMT | Scene to Interval to File Mapping Table |
SIG | Signaling |
SIP | Standard Internet Protocol |
SiPIN | Silicon PIN |
SIPS | Science Investigation Processing System |
SIR | Scientific Investigations & Research Survey Investigation and Research or System Integration Review |
SIRCUS | Spectral Irradiance and Radiance Responsivity Calibration Using Uniform Sources |
SIRD | Satellite Instrument Requirements Document |
SIRU | Scalable Inertial Reference Unit |
SIS | Science Information System Spacecraft Interface Simulator Spherical Integrating Sources |
SISO | Subsystem Information System Owner |
SISSE | Senior Information System Security Engineer |
SIT | Strategic Implementation Team |
SITL | Single Interval-In-The-Life |
SITP | Software Integration Test Plan |
SKMP | System Key Management Plan |
SL | Scan Line or Stim Lamp |
SLA | Service Level Agreement Scan Line Artifact |
SLAM | Storage Location Allocation Manager |
SLAT | Spacecraft Location and Attitude Tape |
SLATE | System Level Automation Tool for Enterprises |
SLC | Scan Line Corrector Software Development Life Cycle |
SLD | Scan Line Data |
SLI | Sustainable Land Imaging |
SLL | Scan Line Length |
SLO | Scan Line Offset |
SLOC | Standard Lines of Code |
SLP | Service Location Protocol |
SLPP | Summary Level Planning Package |
SLS | Scan Line Start |
SLSTR | Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer |
SLT | Senior Leadership Team |
SM | Schedule Manager Scan Mirror |
SM RVM | Science and Mission Requirements Verification Matrix |
SMA | Safety and Mission Assurance S-Band Multiple Access Semi-Major Axis |
SMACAA | SDSU MODTRAN Atmospheric Correction Anytime Anywhere |
SMAP | Safety and Mission Assurance Plan |
SMART | Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique |
SMAT | System, Model, and Analysis Tool |
SMC | Subsetter Monitor and Controllers |
SMD | Stored Mission Data Science Mission Directorate |
SME | Scan Mirror Electronics Subject Matter Expert |
SMP | Software Maintenance Plan Software Management Plan |
SMR | Staff Management Request |
SMRD | Science and Mission Requirements Document Spacecraft Mission Requirements Document |
SMS | System Management Server Science Modeling System |
SMSR | Safety and Mission Success Review |
SMTF | Sync Marked Transfer Frame |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
SN | Space Network |
SNAS | Space Network Access System |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SNO | Simultaneous Nadir Overpass |
SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
SNS | Simple Notification Service |
SNSA | Swedish National Space Agency |
SNUG | Space Network Users' Guide |
SNWG | Satellite Needs Working Group |
SO | Search and Order |
SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture Satellite Operator Agency |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
SOC | Satellite Operations Center |
SOCC | Satellite Operations Control Center |
SOD | Seconds Of Day |
SOH | State of Health |
SOM | Space Oblique Mercator |
SOMA | Scanning Order Management Application |
SON | Statement of Need |
SOO | Statement of Objectives |
SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
SORN | System of Record Notice |
SOS or S/OS | Spacecraft/Observatory Simulator |
SOW | Statement of Work |
SP | Special Publication |
SPA | Science Processing Algorithm |
SPAM | Spatial Production Allocation Model SpaceWire Access Memory |
SPAOS | Standard Product Automatic Ordering System |
SPARC | Scalable Processor Architecture |
SPDR | Spacecraft Preliminary Design Review |
SPI | Schedule Performance Index |
SPIE | International Society for Optics and Photonics |
SPIM | SPOT Image |
SPIT | Systems Performance Improvement Team |
SPITL | Scheduling Period In The Life |
SPL | Software Project Lead |
SPOC | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Proof of Concept or Security Point of Contact |
SPOF | Single Point of Failure |
SPOT | Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (Satellite for Earth Observation) |
SPR | Software Problem Report |
SPS | Science Product System SID Population Service |
SPSR | System Preship Review |
SPT | Science Processing Toolkit |
SPT VDI | Science Processing Toolkit Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
SPVM | System Performance Verification Matrix |
SPVP | System Performance Verification Plan |
SQA | Software Quality Assurance |
SQAP | Software Quality Assurance Plan |
SQL | Structured Query Language |
SQMS | Software Quality Management System |
SQPSK | Staggered Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
SQRT | Square Root |
SQS | Amazon Simple Queue Service |
SR | System Review Surface Reflectance |
sr | Steradian |
SRAEROSOLQA | Internal Surface Reflectance Aerosol Quality Assessment |
SRAM | Static Random Access Memory |
SRB | Schedule Review Board Standing Review Board |
SRCLOUDQA | Surface Reflectance Quality Assessment Band |
SRD | System Requirements Document |
SRE | Site Reliability Engineering |
SRI | Standard Robot Interface |
SRLUT | Spectral Radiance Look-Up Table |
SRF | Spectral Response Function |
SRI | Summation Research, Inc. |
SRIX4Veg | Surface Reflectance Intercomparison eXercise for Vegetation |
SRM | Silo Resource Manager |
SRO | Systems Review Office |
SRP | Systems Review Plan |
SRR | System Readiness Review System Requirements Review Software Requirements Review |
SRS | Software Requirements Specification System Requirements Specification |
SRT | Systems Review Team Si Racha, Thailand Ground Station |
SRTM | Software Requirements Traceability Matrix Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
SRV | SUBETTER_REQUEST_View |
SS | Space Segment or System Support Signal Strength or Steady State |
SSA | S-Band Single Access Space Situational Awareness |
SSAI | Science Systems and Applications, Inc |
SSC | Software Security Center |
SSCL | Standard System Control List |
SSD | Subsystem Design Document Solid State Drive |
SSDLC | Secure Software Development Life Cycle |
SSE | Subsystem Engineer |
SSEB | Simplified Surface Energy Balance |
SSEBop | Operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance |
SSERB | Systems Support Engineering Review Board |
SSG | System Support Group |
SSH | Secure Shell |
SSHGS | Secure Shell Gateway Service |
SSI | Sensitive Security Information Spectral Sampling Interval Superspectral Imager |
SSIP | System Safety Implementation Plan |
SSL | Secure Socket Layer |
SSM | Scene Select Mechanism Scene Select Mirror Amazon Systems Manager |
SSO | Single Sign-On |
SSoH | Stored State of Health |
SSOP | Security Standard Operating Procedure |
SSP | System Security Plan Satellite Support Plan |
SSP-MSO | Space System Protection - Mission Support Office |
SSPA | Solid State Power Amplifier |
SSPP | Systems Safety Program Plan |
SSR | Solid State Recorder Software Specification Review |
SSRR | Spacecraft System Requirements Review |
SSSC | Science Support Services Contract |
SSURGO | NRCS Soil Survey Geographic Database |
ST | System Test or Surface Temperature |
STAC | SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog |
STARFM | Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model |
STARS | Satellite Telemetry Automatic Reduction System |
STC | System Test Case |
STD | Standard |
STDEV | Standard Deviation |
STDMP | Simulated and Test Data Management Plan |
STDN | Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network |
STE | System Test Equipment |
STESR | System Test Execution Summary Report |
STF | System Transfer Function |
STIG | Security Technical Implementation Guide |
STIM | Stimulus |
STK | StorageTek Systems Toolkit |
STOL | System Test and Operations Language |
STP | System Test Plan |
STQA | Surface Temperature Quality Assessment |
STR | System Test Report Special Task Report |
STS | Scene Transmit Schedule Security Token Service |
STSOC | System Test and Operations Language |
STSS | Synchronize to Secondary Server |
STV | Spacecraft Transportation Vehicle |
SUI | Subsetter Operator User Interface |
SUM | Summary |
SUMM | Software User and Maintenance Manual |
SUN | Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
SURFRAD | Surface Radiation Surface Radiation Budget Network |
SUROM | Start-Up Read-Only Memory |
SV | Space Vehicle, Schedule Variance, or Subversion |
SvalSat | Svalbard Satellite Station |
SVN | Sun-Vehicle-Normal angle or Subversion |
SVT | Site Verification Test |
SVVP | System Verification and Validation Plan |
SW | Switch Software |
SWAP | Size, Weight, and Power |
SWD | Software Development |
SWE | Software Engineer |
SWG | Simulator Working Group Standards Working Group |
SWIR | Short Wavelength Infrared Shortwave Infrared |
SWOT | Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat Surface Water and Ocean Topography |
SYS | Systems |
SZA | Solar Zenith Angle |
T | Temperature |
T&A | Trending and Analysis Trending & Archive |
T&C | Telemetry and Command |
T&E | Testing and Evaluation |
T/V | Thermal/Vacuum |
T1 | Tower 1 Tier 1 |
T2 | Tower 2 Tier 2 |
T382 | Triangular 382 |
Ta | Maximum daily air temperature |
TAA | Technical Assistance Agreement |
TAI | International Atomic Time |
TAM | Three-Axis Magnetometer |
TAMR | Telemetry Archive Metrics Report |
TAP | Technical Assessment Panel Time-series Analysis and Plotting |
TAR | Tape Archiver |
TAT | Turn-Around-Time |
TAYF | Test As You Fly |
TB | Terabyte |
TBC | To Be Confirmed |
TBD | To Be Determined |
TBDEM | Topobathymetric Digital Elevation Model |
TBR | To Be Resolved To Be Reviewed To Be Refined |
TBS | To Be Submitted To Be Supplied To Be Specified To Be Scheduled |
TC | Test Case Test Conductor Thermal Control Tasseled Cap |
TC0AOS | TIRS Collection 0 Automatic Ordering System |
TC1AOS | TIRS Collection 1 Automatic Ordering System |
TCA | Time of Closest Approach |
TCDC | Total Cloud Cover |
TCO | Total Cost of Ownership |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol Technology Control Plan |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
TCPI | To Complete Performance Index |
TCS | Thermal Control Subsystem |
TCXO | Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillator |
TD | Test Director |
TDB | Barycentric Dynamical Time |
TDEA | Triple Data Encryption Algorithm |
TDF | Tracking Data Formatter Time-Dependent Factor |
TDG | Test Data Generator |
TDI | Time Delay Integration |
TDMS | Technical Data Management System |
TDR | Test Discrepancy Report Trusted Digital Repository |
TDRS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite |
TDRSS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
TDT | Terrestrial Dynamical Time |
TDWG | Test Dataset Working Group |
TDY | Temporary Duty |
TE | Test Engineer |
TEM | Technical Exchange Meeting |
TERSS | Tasmanian Earth Resources Satellite Station Consortium |
TES | Thermal-Emissivity Separation |
TESR | Test Execution Summary Report |
TFA | Two-Factor Authentication |
TFDH | Telemetry Frame Delivery Header |
TFF | TIRS Free Flyer |
TGS | Tile Generation System |
tHC | The Hammers Company |
TIC | Trusted Internet Connection |
TICD | Thermal Interface Control Document |
TID | Total Ionizing Dose |
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
TIM | Technical Interchange Meeting Technical Issue Memorandum Thermal Infrared Module |
TIPCE | TIRS-2 Image Performance and Cryogenic Evaluation |
TIR | Thermal Infrared |
TIROS | Television InfraRed Observation Satellite |
TIRS | Thermal Infrared Sensor Thermal Infrared Scanner |
TIRS-2 | Thermal Infrared Sensor -2 |
TIS | Thermal Infrared Sensor TIRS Interface Simulator Teledyne Imaging Sensor Corp. |
TIU | Tape Interface Unit |
TL8AOS | TIRS Landsat 8 Automatic Ordering System |
TL8CAOS | TIRS Landsat 8 Collection Automatic Ordering System |
TLE | Two-Line Element |
TLM | Telemetry |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
TM | Thematic Mapper Traverse Mercator Task Manager Test Modulator |
TM-A | Thematic Mapper - Archive Format |
TM-R | Thematic Mapper - Raw Format |
TMACS | Thematic Mapper and Multispectral Scanner Archive Conversion System |
Tmask | Time-series Mask multiTemporal Mask |
TMIAS | Thematic Mapper Image Assessment System |
TML | Total Mass Loss |
TMON | Telemetry Monitor |
TMR | Thermal Mapper Raw |
TMS | Training Management System |
TMSCAG | Thematic Mapper-based Fractional Snow Cover and Grain Size |
TMSG | Terrain Mapping Subgroup |
TMSR | TSSC Monthly Status Report |
TMSS | TM Subsetter |
TnB | Thumbnail Browse |
TNOC | Tromso Network Operations Center |
TNOS | Tromso Network Operations Centre |
TNS | Transport Network Substrate |
TO | Task Order Terrain Occlusion |
TOA | Top of Atmosphere |
TOA BT | Top of Atmosphere Brightness Temperature |
TOAR | Top of Atmosphere Reflectance |
TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
TOMS-EP | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe |
TOR | Terms of Reference |
TOV | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
TP | Task Plan or Trimmed Pass |
TPIO | Technology, Planning and Integration for Observation |
TPL | Telemetry Packetization Layer |
TPM | Technical Performance Measures |
TPS | Test Procedure Specification |
TPU | Total Propagated Uncertainty |
TQCM | Thermoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalance |
TRAD | Thermal Radiance Layer |
TRAM | Tracking, Routing, and Metrics |
TRAMAOS | Tracking, Routing, and Metrics Automatic Ordering System |
TRD | Technical Requirements Document |
TREES | Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observations by Satellite |
TRN | Technical Redirection Notice |
TRR | Test Readiness Review |
TRT | Transition Readiness Test |
TS | TIRS-2 Simulator |
TSI | Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. |
TSR | Technical Service Request |
TSSC | Technical Support Services Contract |
TST | Technical Support Team |
Tsync | T-Interface Synchronization |
TT | Terrestrial Time |
TT&C | Telemetry, Tracking, and Control |
TT&E | Test, Training, and Exercise |
TTF | TIRS Test Facility |
TTL | Transistor-Transistor Logic |
TTMS | TSSC Task Management System |
TTOR | Transition To Operations Review |
TTPs | Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures |
TURFTS | TDRS Users RF Test Set |
TUTR | Tunable Universal Track Receiver |
TÜBITAK | Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey |
TVAC | Thermal Vacuum |
Tw//DTW | Time-Weighted Dynamic Time Warping |
TWITL | Total WRS-2 in the Life |
TWM | Task and Work Management |
TWTA | Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifier |
TX | Transmit |
U/C | Up Converter |
U/L | Uplink |
U/P | Uplink Processor |
UAC | User Account Control |
UAE | United Arab Emirates |
UAF | University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
UAR | Update as Required |
UAS | Unmanned Aerial System Uncrewed Aerial System |
UB | Undistributed Budget |
UDI | Uplink Downlink |
UDM | Unusable Data Mask |
UDP | Upper Data Point User Datagram Protocol |
UDT | UDP Data Transfer |
UG | User's Guide |
uhd | User's Home Directory |
UI | User Interface |
UIC | User Interface Compile |
UID | Unique Identifier |
UINT8 | 8-bit Unsigned Integer |
UIS | USGS Inventory Server |
UKSA | United Kingdom Space Agency |
UL | Upper Left |
ULA | United Launch Alliance |
ULC | Update LGN Cache |
UM | Unified Messaging |
UML | Unified Modeling Language |
UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
UNIX | Bell Laboratories trademark for operating system language and time sharing |
unixODBC | Unix Open Database Connectivity |
UNOOSA | United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs |
UNT | Unsigned Integer |
UP | User Portal System |
UPE | User Portal Element |
UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply Universal Polar Stereographic |
UPW | User Portal Website |
UQPSK | Unbalanced Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
UR | Upper Right User Request |
URAD | Upwell Radiance Layer |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
URP | User Request Parameters |
URS | User Registration System |
US | United States |
USAF | United States Air Force |
USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development |
USB | Universal Serial Bus |
USC | United States Code |
USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
USFS | United States Forest Service |
USG | U.S. Government |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
USML | United States Munitions List |
USNO | U.S. Naval Observatory |
USPS | U.S. Postal Service |
USSF | United States Space Force |
USSTRATCOM | U.S. Strategic Command |
UT | Universal Time Unit Test |
UT1 | UTC Corrected |
UTC | Universal Time Code Coordinated Universal Time |
UTM | Universal Transverse Mercator |
V&V | Verification and Validation |
VA | Veterans Administration Department of Veterans Affairs |
VAA | Viewing Azimuth Angle |
VAC | Variance at Completion Volts AC |
VAFB | Vandenberg Air Force Base |
VAL | Validation |
VAP | Value-Added Processor |
VAR | Value-Added Resellers Variance Analysis Report |
VAST | Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology |
VC | Virtual Channel |
VC63 | Virtual Channel 63 |
VCA | Virtual Channel Access |
VCDU | Virtual Channel Data Unit |
VCID | Virtual Channel Identifier Virtual Channel Identification |
VCLC | Virtual Channel Link Control |
VCM | Vector Covariance Message |
VDC | Virtual Data Center Volts Direct Current |
VDD | Version Description Document |
VDI | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure |
VDP | Validation Data Products |
VER | Version |
VF | Valley Forge |
VHRI | Very High-Resolution Imager |
VH-RODA | Very High-resolution Radar & Optical Data Assessment |
VI | Vegetation Index |
VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite |
VIS | Visual Information Systems |
VisID | Visual Identification |
VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
VLUT | Vendor Look-Up Table |
VM | Version Manager |
VMM | Virtual Machine Manager |
VMS | Virtual Memory Storage |
VNIR | Visible and Near Infrared |
VNP09 | VIIRS Surface Reflectance |
VO | Verification Owner |
VOI | Value of Information |
VOIP | Voice Over Internet Protocol |
VP | Vertical Polarization |
VPC | Virtual Port Channel Virtual Private Cloud |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
VQA | Visual Quality Assurance |
VRM | Verification Requirements Matrix |
VRP | Video Reference Pixel |
VRS | Vertical Resampling Space |
VSD | Volume Size Distribution |
VSFB | Vandenberg Space Force Base |
VSM | Versity Storage Manager |
VSWIR | Visible to Short Wavelength Infrared |
VTI | Value Tree Information |
VTL | Verification Tracking Log |
VTP | Verification Test Procedures |
VTW | Value Tree Workbook |
VVP | Verification and Validation Plan |
VZA | Viewing Zenith Angle |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
WA | Work Authorization |
WAD | Work Authorization Document |
WAF | Web Application Firewall |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
WAO | Work Authorization Order |
WB | Wideband |
WBDR | Wideband Downlink Report |
WBM | Wideband Module |
WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
WBV | Wideband Video |
WBVT | Wideband Videotape |
WC | Worst Case |
WCS | Web Coverage Services |
WDCD | Wideband Data Capture Device |
WELD | Web-Enabled Landsat Data |
WFS | Web Feature Services |
WG | Working Group |
WGClimate | Working Group on Climate |
WGCV | Working Group for Calibration and Validation |
WGISS | Working Group on Information Systems and Services |
WGRIB | Web Gridded Information in Binary Form |
WGS | World Geodetic System or Wallops Ground Station |
WGS84 | World Geodetic System 1984 |
WGSC | Western Geographic Science Center |
WILMA | Wide Long-Term Multi-Satellite Archive |
WIP | Work In Progress |
WITL | WRS2-In-The-Life Week in the Life |
WLS | Weighted Least Square |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
WMS | Web Mapping Services |
WMTS | Web Mapping Tile Services |
WO | Work Order |
WORS | Wallops Orbital Tracking Station |
WOTIS | Wallops Orbital Tracking Information Systems |
WP | Work Plan or Work Package |
WPI | Wetland Potential Index |
WPS | Wallops Ground Station |
WR | Western Range |
WRD | Water Resources Division |
WRS | Worldwide Reference System |
WRS-2 | Worldwide Reference System-2 |
WRS2TT | Worldwide Reference System-2 to Time Translation |
WRS2TTT | Worldwide Reference System-2 to Time Translation Table |
WSC | White Sands Complex |
WSDL | Web Service Definition Language |
WSGI | Web Server Gateway Interface |
WSGT | White Sands (NASA) Ground Terminal |
WS-I | Web Services Interoperability |
WSL | Windows Subsystem for Linux |
WVTCS | Wideband Videotape Conversion System |
WWW | World Wide Web |
WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
XGBoost | eXtreme Gradient Boosting |
XIB | Transmitter Interface Board |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |
XS | Multispectral SPOT Sensor |
XSD | XML Schema Definition |
XSS | Cross-Site Scripting |
XT | Across Track |
XTX | X-Band Transmitter |
YAML | YAML Ain’t Markup Language Yet Another Markup Language |
YGC | Yaw Gyro Compassing |
YH | Yellow-High |
YL | Yellow-Low |
YSF | Yaw Steering Frame |
YTD | Year-To-Date |
Z | Zulu time (same as GMT) |
ZB | Zettabyte |
ZFS | Zettabyte File System |