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Acronyms
CERSAT
Centre ERS d’Archivage et de Traitement
CFAR
Constant False Alarm Rate
CHAMP
Challenging Minisatellite Payload
chl
chlorophyll-like pigment concentration
Chl-a
Chlorophyll-a
CHL
chlorophyll-like pigments of phytoplankton
CHRIS
Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
CMOD
C-band geophysical MODel function
CNA
Clean Nigeria Associates (consortium)
CNES
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
CREPAD
Centro de Recepción, Proceso, Archivo y Distribución
CTD
Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
CZCS
Coastal Zone Color Scanner
DET
(suspended) detritus
DISC
Data and Information Services Center
DLR
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace
Center)
DMC
Disaster Monitoring Constellation
DN
Digital Number
DPR
Department of Petroleum Resources (of Nigeria)
DSP
Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning
DRA
Dual Receive Antenna
DUACS
Data Unification and Altimeter Combination System
DWD
Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Weather Service)
EAMNet
Europe-Africa Marine Earth Observation Network
EAP
Equivalent Algal Population (algorithm)
EC
European Commission
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast
EKE
Eddy Kinetic Energy
ELISA
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
EO
Earth Observation
EOF
Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOL
Earth Observation Laboratory
EOS
Earth Observation Satellite (AM and PM)
EOS
Earth Observing System (of NASA)
ERS
European Remote Sensing (Satellite, 1 and 2)
ESA
European Space Agency
ETM+
Enhanced Thematic Mapper (on Landsat satellites)
EU
European Union
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological
Satellites
EVI
Enhanced Vegetation Index