| Acronym | Meaning |
| HSRL | High Spectral Resolution Lidar |
| SWAMP | Science Working Group For The AM Platform (EOS) |
| ERSC | Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES) |
| MB/S | Megabytes Per Second |
| SHARP | Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program (NASA) |
| PV | PhotoVoltaic |
| HRIR | High Resolution Infrared Radiometer |
| CH4 | Methane |
| WINCE | WINter Cloud Experiment |
| ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager |