Acronyms

Below is a list of acronyms used commonly in the TES project.

ABSCO - Absorption Coefficient
AES - Airborne Emission Spectrometer
APID - Application Process(or) Identifier
ARM - Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
ASDC - Atmospheric Science Data Center
ATBD - Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
AVDC - AURA Validation Data Center
CBP - Celestial Body Position (Toolkit)
CCB - Configuration Control Board (Change Control Board)
CCR - Configuration Change Request
CDE - Cognizant Development Engineer
CM - Configuration Management
Co-I - Co-Investigator
COTS - Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
CSMS - Communications and System Management Segment (ECS)
CUC - Constant and Unit Conversion (Toolkit)
DAAC - Distributed Active Archive Center
DAO - Data Assimilation Office
DAP - Delivered Algorithm Package
DFM - Design File Memorandum
DID - Data Item Deliverable
DIF - Data Interchange Format
DLT - Digital Linear Tape
DN - Distribution Notice
DPR - Data Processing Request (ECS)
DPREP - Data Pre-Processing
DPS - DAAC/ECS Processing System
DSS - Data Server Subsystem (ECS)
Ebnet - EOSDIS Backbone Network
ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
ECS - EOSDIS Core System
EDG - EOS Data Gateway
EDIO - External Development and Interface Office (ESDIS Project)
EDOS - EOS Data and Operations System
EDS - Expedited Data Sets
EGS - EOSDIS Ground System
ELANOR - Earth Limb And Nadir Operational Retrieval
EMSn - Earth Missions Support network
EPH - Ephemeris and Attitude Access (Toolkit)
EOC - EOS Operations Center
EOS - Earth Observing System
EOSDIS - Earth Observing System Data and Information System
ESDIS - Earth Science Data and Information System
ESDT - Earth Science Data Type
ETE - End to End
FAMS - Final Apodized Measured Spectrum
FOR - Field-Of-Regard
FOT - Flight Operation Team
FOV - Field-Of-View
FRD - Functional Requirements Document
FSV - Full State Vector
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FTS - Fourier Transform Spectrometer
GCMD - Global Change Master Directory
GDS - Ground Data System
GS - Global Survey
GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center
GSRD - Ground System Requirements Document
HDF - Hierarchical Data Format
HDF-EOS - Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System
HIRDLS - High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
ICD - Interface Control Document
IDL - Interactive Data Language
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IERS - International Earth Rotation Service
IFSV - Initial Full State Vector
ILS - Instrument Line Shape
IO - Input Output (Toolkit)
IO_Gen - Generic I/O (Toolkit)
I/O - Input/Output
IOT - Instrument Operations Team
IRD - Interface Requirements Document
ISO - International Standards Organization
IST - Instrument Support Terminal (Team)
JEST - Java Earth Science Tool (ECS)
LaRC - Langley Research Center
LBLRTM - Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model
LTE - Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium
LZPF - Level Zero Processing Facility
MB - Megabyte (106 bytes)
MCF - Metadata Configuration File
MCL - Master Commend Load
MEM - Memory Allocation (Toolkit)
MET - Metadata Access (Toolkit)
MLS - Microwave Limb Sounder
MMS - Mission Management System
MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOJO - Message Oriented Java Objects (ECS)
MOSS - Mission Operations and Science Systems
MOZART - Model of OZone And Related chemical Tracers
MSS - Mass Storage System (ECS)
MTD - Metadata, Time, and Date (Toolkit)
MTMGW - Machine-to-Machine Gateway
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP - National Center for Environmental Prediction
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputer Applications
NESR - Noise Equivalent Source Radiance, Noise Equivalent Spectral Radiance
NSIDC - National Snow and Ice Data Center
ODL - Object Description (Definition) Language
ODT - One Day Test
OMI - Ozone Monitoring Instrument
OSP - Operational Support Product
PAN - Product Acceptance Notification
PC - Process Control (Toolkit)
PCF - Process Control File
PDPS - Production Data Processing System
PDR - Product Delivery Record; Preliminary Design Review
PDRD - Product Delivery Record Discrepancy
PDS - Production Data Set
PEM - Project Element Manager
PGE - Product Generation Executive
PH - Production History
PI - Principal Investigator
POSIX - Portable Operating System Interface (IEEE)
PCT - Process Control tools (Toolkit)
PSA - Product Specific Attribute
PVL - Parameter Equals Value
QA - Quality Assessment
RLE - Run Length Encoding
SC - Spacecraft
SCF - Science Computing Facility
SDP - Science Data Processing
SDPS - Science Data Processing System
SIPS - Science Investigator-led Processing System
SI - SSoftware Interface Specification
SITP - System Integration and Test Plan
SMF - Status Message Facility (Toolkit)
SMP - Software Management Plan
SOT - Single Orbit Test
SSI&T - Science Software Integration and Test
SPD - SSI&T Procedures Document
SRD - Software Requirements Document
SSAP - Science Software Archive Package
SSH - Secure Shell
STP - Software Test Plan
TAI - International Atomic Time
TBD - To Be Determined
TBS - To Be Supplied
TD - Time and Date (Toolkit)
TES - Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TK - Toolkit
TWPR - TES Working Prototype Retrieval
UR - Universal Reference (ECS)
URL - Universal Resource Locator
UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
VMR - Volume Mixing Ratio
V0 - Version 0 (EOSDIS)
ZPD - Zero Path Difference