| Acronym | Meaning |
| FASINEX | Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment |
| GVHRR | Geostationary VHRR |
| DOELAP | DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program |
| ADC | Analog-to-digital Converter |
| PFU | Proto Flight Unit |
| SLT | Semi-Lagrangian Transport |
| SAC-C | Argentina's Scientific Applications Satellite |
| FPPS | Flight Plan Processing System |
| GENESIS | Global Environmental And Ecological Simulation Of Interactive Systems |
| ARPS | Advanced Regional Prediction System |