| Acronym | Meaning |
| PAIR | Particulate Airborne Inlet Research |
| VELORT | Very Long Range Tracking |
| IRCTR | International Research Centre For Telecommunication-transmission And RADAR |
| GOCO | Government Owned |
| NGS | National Geodetic Survey |
| OAR | Office Of Aerospace Research |
| MCTEX | Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment |
| ICSU | International Council Of Science |
| DDD | Wind Direction |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |