| 2-D | two-dimensional |
| 3-D | three-dimensional |
| ADRO | Application Development and Remote Sensing Opportunity |
| AGARD | Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AIDAA | Associazione Italiana di Aeronautica e Astronautica |
| AIG | Applied Intelligence Group |
| AIRSAR | Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| APL | Applied Physics Lab |
| ARC | active radar calibrators |
| ARMAR | Airborne Rain Mapping Radar |
| ASU | Arizona State University |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| BOREAS | Boreal Eco System-Atmosphere Studies |
| BRGM | Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (Orléans, France) |
| C | C-band |
| Co-I | co-investigator |
| CCD | charged coupled device |
| CD-ROM | compact disk read only memory |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observations Satellites |
| CESBIO | Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère |
| CETP |
Centre d'Etudes des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires
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| CMOD-3 | C-band scatterometer model functions |
| CMOD-4 | C-band scatterometer model functions |
| CNN | Cable News Network |
| CNRS-IMAGEO | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Imaging |
| CPD | C-band phase difference |
| CSAP | Critical Size Area Project |
| CSI | Canopy Structure Index |
| CSOWM | Canadian Spectral Ocean Wave model |
| CSUF | California State University, Fresno |
| CTD | conductivity temperature depth |
| D-PAF | German Processing and Archive Facility |
| DARA | Deutsche Agentur für Raumfahrtangelegenheiten (German Space Agency) |
| DC-8 | Douglas Commercial aircraft - model 8 |
| DEM | digital elevation map |
| DLR | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DT | data take |
| DTM | digital terrain model |
| EARSeL | European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories |
| ECMWF | European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast |
| ECU | East Carolina University |
| EECS | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| ELA | equilibrium line altitude |
| EM | electromagnetic |
| ENSEA | Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| ERASME | Electronically Steerable Antenna Copolar Scatterometer |
| ERIM | Environmental Research Institute of Michigan |
| ERS-1 | European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 |
| ERS-2 | European Remote Sensing Satellite 2 |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESTAR | Electronically Steered Thinned Array Radiometer |
| EUROPTO | Europto Joint Venture European Optical Society and International Society for Optical Engineering (EOS/SPIE) |
| EUSAR | European Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| FEL-TNO | TNO - Physics and Electronics Laboratory |
| FIR | finite impulse response |
| FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
| FY | fiscal year |
| GCIP | Global Change Research Program, also referred to as GCP and GCRP |
| GCM | general circulation model |
| GCP | ground control point |
| GIS | geographic information system |
| GOM | Geometrical Optics Model |
| GPS | Geophysical Processor System, or Global Positioning System |
| GRS | Grid Reference System (SPOT) |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GTC | geocoded terrain corrected |
| HF | high frequency |
| HH | horizontal polarized transmission, horizontally polarized reception |
| HV | horizontal polarized transmission, vertically polarized reception |
| ICESS | Institute for Computational Earth System Science |
| IDS |
Image Display System
Ionosphere Detection System Information Display System |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IEM | integral equation method |
| IF | intermediate frequency |
| IGARSS | International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium |
| IGCP | International Global Change Program |
| IJRS | International Journal of Remote Sensing |
| INPA | Instituto de Pesquisas Amazonas (Brazilian Institute for Amazonion Research) |
| INPE | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazilian Space Agency) |
| INRA | Institut National de Recherche Agronomique |
| IR | infrared |
| IRSA | Institute for Remote Sensing Applications |
| ISLC | interferometric single look complex |
| ISPRSS'96 | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Symposium 1996 |
| ITCZ | Intertropical Convergence Zone |
| ITI | Interaction Type Index |
| JERS-1 | Japanese Earth Remote-Sensing Satellite |
| JGR | Journal of Geophysical Research |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JSC | Johnson Space Center |
| KEYT | television station located in Santa Barbara, California, USA |
| L | L-band |
| LAI | Leaf Area Index |
| LANDSAT | Land Satellite |
| LDR | linear depolarization ratio |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| LPD | L-band phase difference |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research (Program) (U.S. National Science Foundation) |
| MAC | Multsensor Aircraft Campaign |
| MGD | multi-look ground-range detected |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MLD | multi-look detected |
| MSS | Multispectral Scanner |
| MTF | modular transfer function |
| MTPE | Mission to Planet Earth |
| NAS | Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASDA | National Space Development Agency (Japan) |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Services |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NS001 | Airborne LANDSAT simulator |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| OCF | Orbiter Computational Facilities |
| P | P-band |
| PARC | polarimetric active radar calibrator |
| PD | phase difference |
| PI |
principal investigator
proportion-based indices |
| PIERS | Progress In Electromagnetic Research Symposium |
| POM | Physical Optics Model |
| RADAR | radio detection and ranging |
| RADARSAT | Radar Satellite |
| RAR | real aperture radar |
| RAVEN | Radar Analysis and Visualization Environment |
| RCS | radar cross section |
| RDC | Radar Data Center |
| RESEDA | Remote Sensor Data Analysis |
| RMS | root mean square |
| RSADU | Remote Sensing Application Development Unit |
| RSD | reformatted signal data |
| SALT | Savanas in the Long Term |
| SAPARC | single antenna polarimetric active radar calibrator |
| SAR | synthetic aperture radar |
| SAREX | South American Radar Experiment (ESA) |
| SCANSAR | scanning synthetic aperture radar |
| SIR-A | Shuttle Imaging Radar-A |
| SIR-B | Shuttle Imaging Radar-B |
| SIR-C | Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C |
| SIR-C/X-SAR | Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SLC | single look complex |
| SMMR | Scanning Multichannel (or Multifrequency) Microwave Radiometer |
| SP | small perturbation |
| SPI | South Patagonian Icefield |
| SPM | small perturbation model |
| SPOT | Système Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre |
| SRG | surface roughness gauge |
| SRL-1 | Space Radar Laboratory flight 1 |
| SRL-2 | Space Radar Laboratory flight 2 |
| SRL-3 | Proposed Future Mission Space Radar Laboratory flight 3 |
| SSC | single look slant range complex |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (DMSP) (U.S. Air Force) |
| STS | 59 and STS 68 Space Transportation System, flights 59 and 68 |
| SWH | significant wave height |
| TGARS | Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
| TIMS | Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| TIR | thermal infrared |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| TNTmips | map image processing system |
| TOPSAR | Topographic Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| TV | television |
| UC | University of California |
| UCSB | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| US | United States |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| UTD | University of Texas, Dallas |
| VH | vertically polarized transmission, horizontally polarized reception |
| VNIR | visible/near-infrared |
| VSI | volume scattering index |
| VV | vertically polarized transmission, vertically polarized reception |
| WAM | wave analysis model |
| WAMODEL | A third-generation wave prediction model |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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