| Acronym | Meaning |
| FLAMBE | Fire Locating And Monitoring Of Burning Emissions |
| KB/S | Kilobits Per Second |
| AMRIR | Advanced Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS) |
| OSS | Office Of Space Science (NASA) |
| ESSP | Earth System Science Pathfinder Mission (ESSP) |
| ASPT | Advanced Satellite Products Team (NOAA/ORA) |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer (JPL) |
| IRIS | Infrared Radiation Interferometer Spectrometer (1960s) |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time (repl. By UTC) |