| ACCESS |
Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science |
| ACE |
Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems |
| AERONET |
Aerosol Robotics Network |
| AIRS |
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| AIST |
Advanced Information Systems Technology |
| ALI |
Advanced Land Imager |
| AMSR-E |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS |
| AMSU-A |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit - A |
| ASCENDS |
Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons |
| ASTER |
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| ATI |
Advanced Technology Initiatives |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS |
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| BOREAS |
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study |
| CCE |
Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems |
| CCEO |
Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office |
| CCIWG |
Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group |
| CCSP |
Climate Change Science Program |
| CENR |
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Research |
| CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
| CERES |
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DESDynI |
Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice |
| DOE |
Department of Energy |
| EROS |
Earth Resources Observation and Science |
| EDC |
EROS Data Center |
| EIWG |
Ecosystems Interagency Working Group |
| EO-1 |
Earth Observing-1 |
| EOS |
Earth Observing System |
| EPO |
Education and Public Outreach |
| ESSF |
Earth System Science Fellowship |
| ESSP |
Earth System Science Pathfinder |
| ESTO |
Earth Science Technology Office |
| FAS |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
| ETM+ |
Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus |
| FAS |
Foreign Agricultural Service |
| FIFE |
First ISLSCP Field Experiment |
| FTIR |
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| GEO |
Group on Earth Observation |
| GEO-CAPE |
Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events Mission |
| GEOSS |
Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
| GLP |
Global Land Project |
| GLS |
Global Land Surveys |
| GOFC/GOLD |
Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics |
| GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System |
| GPM |
Global Precipitation Measurement |
| GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System |
| HSB |
Humidity Sounder for Brazil |
| HyspIRI |
Hyperspectral Infrared Imager |
| ICESat-II |
Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-II |
| IGBP |
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
| IGOL |
Integrated Global Observations for Land |
| IGOS |
Integrated Global Observing System |
| IGOS-P |
Integrated Global Observing System-P |
| IHDP |
International Human Dimensions Programme |
| IIP |
Instrument Incubator Program |
| iLEAPS |
Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study |
| IOCCG |
International Ocean Color Coordinating Group |
| ISLSCP |
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project |
| IWG |
Interagency Working Group |
| JGOFS |
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| JSOST |
Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology |
| LBA |
Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia |
| LCLUC |
Land Cover and Land Use Change |
| LDCM |
Landsat Data Continuity Mission |
| LP DAAC |
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center |
| LUIWG |
Land Use Interagency Working Group |
| LULCC |
Land Use and Land Cover Change |
| MAIRS |
Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study |
| MCI |
Mid-Continent Intensive |
| MDGLS |
Mid-Decadal Global Land Survey |
| MEaSUREs |
Making Earth System data records for Use in Research Environments |
| MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOPITT |
Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere |
| NACP |
North American Carbon Program |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NEESPI |
Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative |
| NESSF |
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPOESS |
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
| NPP |
NPOESS Preparatory Project |
| NRA |
NASA Research Announcement |
| NSPIRES |
NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System |
| OCCC |
Ocean Carbon and Climate Change |
| OCO |
Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
| ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| OTTER |
Oregon Transect Ecosystem Research |
| POES |
Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite |
| REASoN |
Research, Education, and Applications Solution Network |
| ROSES |
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
| SAP |
Synthesis and Assessment Product |
| SeaWiFS |
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
| SIMOR |
Subcommittee on Integrated Management of Ocean Resources |
| SO GasEx |
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment |
| SOCCR |
State of the Carbon Cycle Report |
| START |
global change SysTem for Analysis, Research, and Training |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics |
| Suomi NPP |
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
| TM |
Thematic Mapper |
| TRMM |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| UAVSAR |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| USOAP |
U.S. Ocean Action Plan |
| VIIRS |
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
| WGCV |
Working Group on Calibration and Validation |
