| Acronym | Meaning |
| MAMS | Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor |
| FOLD | Federally Owned LANDSAT Data |
| ACSE | Association Control Service Element |
| CALCRUST | Consortium For Study Of The California Crust |
| OGCM | Ocean General Circulation Model |
| SMSC | Shared-Memory Supercomputer Systems |
| RGSP | Review Of Geophysics And Space Physics |
| DDE | Dynamic (or Direct) Data Exchange |
| AO | Announcement Of Oppurtunity |
| APT | Alliance For Photonic Technology |