| Acronym | Meaning |
| EOSIS | EOS Information System |
| ASC | ASTER Steering Committee |
| TCMRS | Tropical Climate Monitoring And Research Station |
| Z-R | Relationship |
| HTML | Hypertext Mark-up Language |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology |
| AMTEL | Advanced Materials Testing & Evaluation Laboratory |
| MSLP | Mean Sea-level Pressure |
| CAE | Cooler |
| AIS | Airborne Imaging Spectrometer |