| Acronym | Meaning |
| PEP | Photo-electron Plasma |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| LARC | Limited Area Remote Collector |
| SUDS | System For User Editing And Display Of Soundings |
| OB | Optical Bench |
| STARE | Southern Tropical Atlantic Regional Experiment |
| IA | International Angstrom |
| NRSC | National Remote Sensing Centre |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| ACD | Atmospheric Chemistry Division |