Acronyms
AAOT
Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower
AATSR
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
ACC
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
ACSPO
AVHRR Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans
ADEOS
Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
AF-FOV
Alias-Free Field-of-View
AIS
Automated Information System
ALOS
Advanced Land Observing Satellite
AMSR
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
AMSR-E
Advance Microwave Scanning Radiometer – EOS
AO
Announcement of Opportunity
AOML
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
APC
Antenna Pattern Correction
ARGO
buoy, not an, acronym named for Greek mythological ship
AS Mode
Aperture Switching Mode (of TerraSAR-X)
ASAR
Advanced SAR (Instrument on ENVISAT)
ASCAT
Advanced Scatterometer
ATI
Along-Track (Radar) Interferometry
ATSR
Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ERS-1)
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVISO
A Main Distributor of Multimission Satellite Altimetry Data
AXBTs
Airborne eXtpendable Bathy-Thermographs
BAW
Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau (D)
bb
Backscattering
BEC
Barcelona Expert Centre
BODAS
BLUElink Ocean Data Assimilation System
BoM
Australian Bureau of Meteorology
BSH
Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (D)
CBE
Current Best Estimate
CCMP
Cross Correlated Multi-Platform
CDOM
Colored Dissolved Organic Matter
CDOP
Measured Doppler Shifts at C Band Algorithm
CDR
Climate Data Record
CDTI
Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
CEOS
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CERSAT
Centre d’Archivage et de Traitement
CFAR
Constant False Alarm Rate
CHAMP
ChAllenging Minisatellite Payload Geoscience Application
chl-a
Chlorophyll a
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