| Acronym | Meaning |
| CDW | Critical Design Walk-through |
| DOAS | Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
| TECAMS | Technical Conference On Automated Meteorological Systems |
| MASP | Multi-angle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe |
| FLMPA | Federal Land Management Policy Act |
| SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
| LGSOWG | Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group |
| IDNDR | International Decade For Natural Disaster Reduction |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| SLAP | Shuttle Laser Altimeter Prototype |