| Acronym | Meaning |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| ORBI | Stock Ticker Symbol For OSC |
| NIMS | Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer |
| MITI | Ministry Of International Trade And Industry |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| MARS | Series Of Soviet Mars Spacecraft |
| SEPAC | Space Experiments With Particle Accelerators |
| NACA | National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer |
| NSI | NASA Science Internet / NASA Standard Initiator / National Environmental Satellite Data And Information Service |