| Acronym | Meaning |
| ADF | Automatic Direction Finding |
| PIPOR | Program For International Polar Ocean Research |
| ANG | Air National Guard |
| N-ROSS | Naval Research Oceanographic Satellite System |
| HADS | Hydrometeorological Automated Data System |
| ACR | Active Cavity Radiometer |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| SMOG | N/A |
| FD | Facility Division |
| ASI | Agenzia Spaxiale Italiano |