| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSO | Orbiting Solar Observatory |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data And Information System |
| MB/S | Megabytes Per Second |
| SAB | Satellite Applications Branch (old. NESDIS) |
| VISIT | Virtual Institute For Satellite Integration Training (NWS) |
| EUMETSAT | EUropean Organization For The Exploitation Of METeorological SATellites |
| POES | Polar Operational Environmental Satellite |
| DCS | Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites) |
| GARS | GOES Archive And Retrieval System |
| GEOSAT | GEOdetic SATellite |