| Acronym | Meaning |
| EFEDA | European Field Experiment In Desertification-Threatened Area |
| PRF | Pulse Repetition Frequency |
| NRSC | National Remote Sensing Centre |
| VAS | VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |
| AEOS | Analytic Equation-of-state |
| AORD | Astronaut Operations Requirements Document |
| HPCS | High-performance Computing Section |
| EODC | Earth Observation Data Centre |
| ISRIC | International Soil Reference And Information Centre |
| CDDF | Central Data Distribution Facility |