| ABI - Advanced Baseline Imager |
| AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AWIPS - Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| ASPB - Advanced Satellite Products Branch |
| CISESS - Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies |
| CIMSS - Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies |
| CIOSS - Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies |
| CIRA - Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere |
| COMET - Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training |
| CONUS - Continental U.S. |
| CoRP - Cooperative Research Program |
| CREST - Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center |
| CSU - Colorado State University |
| DNB - Day Night Band (imagery) |
| DPI - Derived Product Imagery |
| ERL - Environmental Research Laboratory |
| ESRL - Earth System Research Laboratory |
| GEO-XO - GEO Stationary eXtended Orbits |
| GINI - GOES Ingest, NOAA-port Interface |
| GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| IR - Infrared |
| JPSS - Joint Polar Satellite System |
| McIDAS - Man-computer Interactive Data Analysis System |
| Micron (µm) - old-metric term for 1/1,000,000 meter, replaced by micrometer |
| NCC - Near Constant Contrast (imagery) |
| NESDIS - National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NWS - National Weather Service |
| NWSFO - National Weather Service Forecast Office |
| ORA - Office of Research and Applications |
| PCI - Principal Component Imagery |
| RAMMB - Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch |
| RAMSDIS - RAMMB Advanced Meteorological Satellite Demonstration and Interpretation System |
| RSO - Rapid Scan Operation |
| SCSB - Satellite Climate Studies Branch |
| SOCC - Satellite Operations Control Center |
| SRSO - Super Rapid Scan Operation |
| SSEC - Space Science and Engineering Center |
| StAR - Center for Satellite Applications and Research |
| SHyMet - |
| UTC - Coordinated Universal Time |
| VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
| VIS - Visible |
| VISIT - Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training |
