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 |