| Acronym | Meaning |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc-Read Only Memory |
| APP | AVHRR Polar Pathfinder |
| EDC | EROS Data Center |
| EARTHKAM | Earth Knowledge Acquired By Middle-schoolers |
| ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager |
| XBSS | X-ray Background Survey Spectrometer |
| GARS | GOES Archive And Retrieval System |
| SSU | Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS) |
| JSC | Johnson Space Center (NASA |
| NEXRAD | NEXt Generation RADar |