| Acronym | Meaning |
| SURANET | Southeastern Universities Research Association Network |
| IDCS | Image-dissector Camera System |
| ARL | Army Research Laboratory |
| AFATL | Air Force Armament And Testing Laboratory |
| URIP | University Research Initiative Program |
| FTS | Federal Telecommunications System |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| CCSF | Colorado Computational Science Fair |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project |
| VAS | VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |