| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSS | Office Of Space Science (NASA) |
| GIFTS | Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite |
| MCIDAS | Man Computer Interactive Data Access System |
| LAWS | Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (EOS) |
| NCEP | National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center) |
| HSRL | High Spectral Resolution Lidar |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| WUPPE | Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimeter Experiment |
| MODIS-N | MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer-Nadir (EOS) |