| Acronym | Meaning |
| DRL | Deliverables Requirement List |
| LANDSAT | Land Remote Sensing Satellite |
| PFA | Primary Flux Array |
| EMO | Environmental Management Office |
| ELI | Environmental Law Institute |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
| CARL | Colorado Alliance Of Research Libraries |
| CATI | Colorado Advanced Technology Institute |
| IRS | Information Retrieval Service |