| Acronym | Meaning |
| CE | Combustion Engineering |
| ACAS | Advisory Committee For Atmospheric Sciences |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| NCPO | National Climate Project Office |
| OCI | Ocean Color Imager |
| ANATEX | Across North America Tracer Experiment |
| BUV | Backscatter Ultraviolet |
| KB | Kilobyte (s) |
| GINI | GOES Ingest & NOAAPORT Interface |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |