Acronyms
- AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
- AWIPS - Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
- ASPB - Advanced Satellite Products Branch
- CICS - Cooperative Institute for Climate 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.
- CREST - Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center
- CSU - Colorado State University
- DPI - Derived Product Imagery
- ERL - Environmental Research Laboratory
- ESRL - Earth System Research Laboratory
- GINI - GOES Ingest, NOAA-port Interface
- GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
- IR - Infrared
- McIDAS - Man-computer Interactive Data Analysis System
- Micron (µm) - metric term for a micrometer, 1/1,000,000 meter
- 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
- UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
- VIS - Visible
- VISIT - Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training