| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDHF | Central Data Handling Facility |
| MERIT | MERIT |
| MAG | Magnetosphere Currents/Fields |
| TM | Thermatic Mapper |
| SCEP | Study Of Critical Environmental Problems |
| PSU | Pennsylvania State University |
| FSTC | Foreign Science & Technology Center |
| DAM | Data Access Management |
| DCA | Data Collection Assignment |
| SEAD | Secretary Of Energy Advisory Board |