AATSR |
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer |
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ACE |
Altimeter Corrected Elevation Model |
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ACP |
Atmospheric Correction Processor |
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AD |
Applicable Document |
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ADD |
Architecture Design Document |
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ADF |
Auxiliary Data Files |
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ADS |
Auxiliary Data Set |
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AIL |
Action Item List |
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AIT |
Assembly, Integration, and Testing |
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AIV |
Assembly Integration and Verification |
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AL |
Along Track |
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AME |
Absolute Measurement Error |
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ANSI |
American National Standards Institute, Inc. |
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ANX |
Ascending Node Crossing |
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AOCS |
Attitude and Orbit Control System |
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AOD |
Aerosol Optical Depth |
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API |
Application Programming Interface |
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APID |
Application Identification |
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ARGANS |
Applied Research in Geomatics, Atmosphere, Nature and Space |
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ART |
Absolute Reference Time |
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ASCII |
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
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ATBD |
Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document |
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AU |
Astronomical Unit |
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BBOX |
Bounding Box |
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BC |
Brockmann Consult GmbH |
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BEAM |
Basic Envisat AATSR and MERIS Toolbox |
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BEAM VISAT |
BEAM Visualisation and Analysis Tool |
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BER |
Bit-Error Rate |
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BEST |
Basic Envisat SAR Toolbox |
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BOA |
Bottom of Atmosphere |
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BOL |
Beginning of Life |
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BT |
brightness temperature |
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CCS |
Command and Control Subsystem |
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CCSDS |
Consultative/Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
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CDH |
Control and Data Handling |
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CDHS |
Control and Data Handling Subsystem |
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CDL |
netCDF Common Data Language |
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CDM |
Coloured Dissolved Matter |
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CDOM |
Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter |
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CDR |
Critical Design Review |
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CDS |
Coordinated Data access System |
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CDS-CI |
CDS Core Infrastructure |
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CDS-PPE |
CDS Post Processing Element |
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CDS-SCI |
CDS Services Coordinated Interface |
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CDS-SPR |
CDS System Performance and Reporting |
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CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
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CF |
Climate Format |
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CFI |
Customer Furnished Item |
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CFS |
Canadian Forest Service |
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CLI |
Command-Line Interface |
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COARDS |
Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service |
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COG |
centre of gravity |
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COSA |
Camera Optical Sub Assembly |
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COSAR |
Complex SAR |
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COTS |
Commercial Off the Shelf Software |
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COV |
Coefficient of Variation |
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CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
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CQC |
Coordinated Quality Control |
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CRAAS |
Centralized Routing Authentication and Authorisation Service |
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CRC |
ContrĂ´le de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check) |
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CRR |
Computing Resources Requirements |
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CSA |
Canadian Space Agency |
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CSS |
Cascade Style Sheet |
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DAM |
Data Access Management |
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DAP |
Data Access Protocol |
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DAT |
Display and Analysis Tool |
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DDD |
Detailed Design Document |
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DDF |
Design Definition File |
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DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
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DIL |
Deliverable Item Status List |
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DJR |
Design Justification File |
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Dl |
Dimensionless |
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DLR |
Germany's national research centre for aeronautics and space |
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DND |
Canadian Department of National Defence |
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DP |
Dual Polarisation |
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DPM |
Detailed Processing Model document |
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DVP |
Design and Verification Plan |
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DWH |
Data Warehouse |
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EC |
European Commission |
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ECMWF |
European Centre for MediumRange Weather Forecasting |
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ECSS |
European Cooperation for Space Standardisation |
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EDAC |
Error Detection And Correction |
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ee |
Earth Explorer |
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EEE |
Electrical Electronic and Electromechanical |
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EEPROM |
Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory |
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EGSE |
Electrical Ground Support Equipment |
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EMC |
Electromagnetic Compatibility |
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EO |
Earth Observation |
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EOQC |
Earth Observation Quality Control |
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EPM |
Earth Pointing Mode |
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ESA |
European Space Agency |
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ESLs |
Expert Support Laboratories |
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ESRIN |
ESA Centre for Earth Observation |
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ETM |
Enhanced Thematic Mapper |
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EU |
European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC) |
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EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
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EW |
Extra-Wide Swath |
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FAPAR |
Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
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FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
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FBDAQ |
Flexible Dynamic Block Adaptive Quantization |
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FOS |
Flight Operations Segment |
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FOV |
Field-Of-View |
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FPA |
Focal Plane Assembly |
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FR |
Full Resolution |
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FRP |
Fire Radiative Power |
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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FTS |
Fast Track Service |
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GAC |
Global Area Coverage |
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GAMME |
GMES Harmonisation in a Multi Mission Environment |
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GCMs |
GMES Contributing Missions |
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GCP |
Ground Control Point |
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GDEM |
Global Digital Elevation Model |
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GDR |
Geophysical Data Record |
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GEO |
Group on Earth Observations |
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GeoTIFF |
Geographic Tagged Image File Format |
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GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US) |
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GHRSST |
GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
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GIIG-ICD |
Generic IPF Interface Guidelines |
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GIM |
Geocoded Incidence angle Mask |
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GIS |
Geographic Information System |
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GMES |
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
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GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
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GODAE |
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment |
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GPF |
Graph Processing Framework |
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GPM |
Generic Product Model |
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GPS |
Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR) |
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GRD |
Ground Range Detected |
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GRDM |
Ground Range Detected Multilooked |
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GSC |
GMES Space Component |
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GSCDA |
GMES Space Component Data Access |
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GSE |
GMES Service Element |
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GSPs |
GMES Service Projects |
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GUI |
Graphical User Interface (goo-ey) |
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H/W |
Hardware |
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HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
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HH |
Horizontal Transmit, Horizontal Receive |
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HR |
High Resolution |
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HV |
Horizontal Transmit, Vertical Receive |
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I/F |
Interface |
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I/O |
Input/Output |
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ICD |
Interface Control Document |
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ICRF |
International Celestial Reference Frame |
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IDE |
Integrated Development Environment |
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IDEAS |
Instrument Data Quality Evaluation and Analysis Service |
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IF |
Intermediate Frequency |
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IFOV |
Instantaneous Field Of View |
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IOCR |
In Orbit Commissioning Review |
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IODD |
Input Output Data Definition Document |
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IPF |
Instrument Processing Facility |
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IR |
Infrared |
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ISAR |
Infrared SST Autonomous Radiometer |
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ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
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ISP |
Instrument Source Packet |
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ISPRS |
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
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ISVV |
Independent Software Verification and Validation |
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ITRF |
International Terrestrial Reference Frame |
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ITS-90 |
International Temperature Scale of 1990 |
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ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
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IW |
Interferometric Wideswath |
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JAI |
Java Advanced Imaging |
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JAR |
Java archive file |
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JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group (24-bit image storage format) |
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JRC |
Joint Research Centre |
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KML |
Keyhole Markup Language |
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L0 |
Level 0 |
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L1 |
Level 1 |
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L2 |
Level 2 |
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l3 |
Level 3 |
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LAC |
Local Area Coverage |
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LAI |
Leaf Area Index |
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lra |
Laser Retro-reflector Array |
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LRM |
Low Resolution Mode |
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LRR |
Laser Retro-Reflector |
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LSB |
least-significant byte |
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LST |
Land Surface Temperature |
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LUT |
Look Up Table |
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LWIR |
Long-Wave Infrared |
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MERIS |
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
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MERSEA |
Marine Environment and Security for the European Area Integrated project |
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MGVI |
MERIS Global Vegetation Index |
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MIRI |
Mid Infra-Red Instrument |
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MLE |
Maximum likelihood estimation |
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MMI |
Man-Machine Interface |
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MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
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MPC |
Mission Performance Centres |
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MPH |
Main Product Header |
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MPPT |
Maximum Power Point Tracker |
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MR |
Medium Resolution |
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MRD |
mission requirements document |
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MSI |
Multi-Spectral imaging Instrument |
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MSS |
Mean Sea Surface |
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MTCI |
MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index |
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MTF |
Modulation transfer function. |
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MTL |
Mission Timeline |
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MWIR |
Medium Wave Infrared |
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MWR |
Microwave Radiometer |
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N/A |
Not Applicable |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US) |
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NAVATT |
Navigation and Attitude |
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NcML |
netCDF Markup Language |
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NCR |
Non-Conformance Report |
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NDSI |
Normalised Difference Snow Index |
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NDVI |
Normalised Difference Vegetation Index |
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NEDL |
Noise Equivalent Differential Luminance |
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NEDT |
Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature |
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NEST |
Next ESA SAR Toolbox |
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Netcdf |
Network Common Data Format |
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NIR |
Near Infrared |
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nLw |
Normalised Water-leaving Radiance |
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NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US) |
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NOMAD |
NASA Bio-optical Marine Algorithm Data Set |
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NRT |
near real time |
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NSSDC |
National Space Science Data Centre |
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NTC |
non time critical |
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NTFS |
New Technology File System |
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NVRAM |
Non-Volatile RAM |
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O-SPS |
Optical System Performance Simulator |
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OAA |
Observational Azimuth Angle |
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OAIS |
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System |
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OBT |
On-Board Time |
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OC |
Ocean Colour |
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OE |
Optimal Estimation |
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OEU |
OLCI Electronic Unit |
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OGVI |
OLCI Global Vegetation Index |
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OLCI |
Ocean and Land Colour Instrument |
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OSW |
Ocean SWell spectra |
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OTCI |
OLCI Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index |
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OWI |
Ocean WInd field |
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OZA |
Observation-Zenith Angle |
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PA |
Product Assurance |
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PAR |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
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PCD |
Product Confidence Data |
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PDF |
Portable Document Format (created by Adobe Acrobat) |
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PDGS |
Payload Data Ground Segment |
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PDL |
Parameters Data List |
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PDR |
Preliminary Design Review |
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PDS |
Payload Data Segment |
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PDU |
Product Data Units |
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PF |
Processing Facility |
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PF-SC |
Processing Facility - Stand-alone Chain |
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PH |
Product Handbook |
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POD |
Precise Orbit Determination |
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POO |
Position On Orbit |
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PRF |
Pulse Repetition Frequency |
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PSF |
Point Spread Function |
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PT |
Product Tree |
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Qa |
Center for Quality Assurance in International Education |
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QA4EO |
Quality Assurance for Earth Observation |
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QC |
Quality Control |
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QI |
Quality Indicator |
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QL |
Qualification Load |
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QP |
Quad-Polarization |
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QR |
Qualification Review |
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QWG |
Quality Working Group |
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RA |
Radar Altimeter (R/A Preferred) |
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RAL |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK |
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RAM |
random-access memory |
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RAR |
Range Ambiguity Ratio |
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RB |
Requirement Baseline |
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RCP |
Rich Client Platform |
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RD |
Reference Document |
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RF |
Radio Frequency |
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rms |
root mean square (preferred over "RMS") |
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ROI |
Region of Interest |
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RPE |
Relative Pointing Error |
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RR |
Reduced Resolution |
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RSL |
Reference Slant Range |
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RSS |
Root Sum Square |
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RSTB |
RADARSAT-2 Toolbox |
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RTC |
Real Time Clock |
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RVL |
surface Radial VeLocity |
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S-1 |
Sentinel-1 |
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S-2 |
Sentinel-2 |
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S-3 |
Sentinel-3 |
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S/C |
Spacecraft |
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S/W |
Software |
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SAA |
Sun Azimuth Angle |
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SAFE |
Standard Archive Format for Europe |
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SAR |
synthetic aperture radar (satellite) |
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SDP |
Software Development Plan |
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SeaWiFS |
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
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SEU |
Single Event Upset |
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SI |
Systeme International |
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SISTeR |
Scanning Infrared Sea surface Temperature Radiometer |
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SLC |
Single Look Complex |
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SLR |
Satellite Laser Ranging |
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SLSTR |
Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer |
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SM |
Stripmap |
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sme |
Small to Medium-sized Enterprise |
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SMU |
Satellite Management Unit |
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SPA |
Software Product Assurance |
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SPF |
Single Point Failure |
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SPH |
Specific Product Header |
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SPM |
Suspended Particulate Matter |
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SPOT |
Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (France) |
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SPS |
System Performance Simulator |
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SRAL |
Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter |
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SRDF |
Spectral Region Distribution Function |
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SRR |
System Requirements Review |
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SSA |
Spatial Sampling Angle |
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ssb |
Sea State Bias |
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SSD |
Spatial Sampling Distance |
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SSH |
Sea Surface Height |
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SSP |
Sub-Satellite Point |
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SST |
Sea surface temperature |
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STC |
Short Time Critical |
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SUHET |
Sentinel User Handbook and Exploitation Tools |
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SUM |
Software User Manual |
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SV |
State Vector |
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SVF |
Software Validation Facility |
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SVP |
Software Verification Plan |
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SVR |
Software Validation Report |
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SWA |
Scrambling Window Assembly |
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SWH |
significant wave height |
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SWIR |
Short Wave Infrared |
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SZA |
Solar Zenith Angle |
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TAI |
Temps Atomique International |
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TAS-F |
Thales Alenia Space - France |
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Tb |
Thermal Balance |
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TBC |
To Be Confirmed |
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TBD |
To Be Determined |
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TC |
Telecommand |
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TDD |
Test Definition Document |
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tds |
Test Data Set |
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THREDDS |
Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Service |
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TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
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TM |
Telemetry |
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TMM |
Thermal Mathematical Model |
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tns |
Technical Notes |
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TOA |
Top Of Atmosphere |
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TOPSAR |
Terrain Observation with Progressive Scans SAR |
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TPD |
Test Procedures Document |
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tpm |
Third Party Mission |
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TRP |
Temperature Reference Point |
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TS |
Technical Specification |
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TSM |
Total Suspended Matter |
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TT&C |
Telemetry, Tracking and Command |
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TVC |
Thermal Vacuum Chamber |
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TVT |
Thermal Vacuum Test |
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UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
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UKMO |
UK Met Office |
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uml |
Unified Modelling Language |
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URD |
User Requirement Document |
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uso |
UltraStable Oscillator |
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UTC |
Universal Time Code |
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UTF |
Uniform Transformation Format |
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UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator (geographical Co-ordinate System) |
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UV |
Ultra Violet |
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VAL |
Validation |
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VAM |
Video Acquisition Module |
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VC |
Virtual Channel |
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VCDU |
Virtual Channel Data Unit |
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VCID |
Virtual Channel Identifier |
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VGT |
Level 2 continuation of SPOT VEGETATION products |
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VH |
Vertical Transmit, Horizontal Receive |
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VIMS |
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer |
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VIRTIS |
Visible and IR Thermal Imaging Spectrometer |
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Vis |
Visible |
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VISCAL |
Visible Calibration |
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VNIR |
Visible and Near Infra-Red |
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VV |
Vertical Transmit, Vertical Receive |
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WGS |
World Geodetic System |
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WRT |
"With respect to", especially in fields such as Mathematics. |
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WV |
Wave Mode |
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XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
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XSD |
XML Schema Definition |
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XSVE |
X-band Subsystem Validation Equipment |
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