| Acronym | Meaning |
| A/C | Aircraft |
| UIL | Upper Interval Limit |
| ERDC | Exploratory Research And Development Center |
| RI# | Richardson Number |
| UGV | Unmanned Ground Vehicles |
| INFOTERRA | International Environmental Research And Referral Service Of UNEP |
| LEDA | On-line Earthnet Data Access |
| ACEC | American Consulting Engineers Council |
| SUDOOS | Sun/UNIX DICOMED Online Operating System |
| OCI | Ocean Color Imager |