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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2007. Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11987.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACE Applications, Commercial, Education

ACT Applied Coherent Technologies

AGRISTARS Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys Through Aerospace Remote Sensing

ASP Applied Sciences Program

AVHRR advance very high resolution radiometer

CCRI Climate Change Research Institute

CCSP Climate Change Science Program

CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention

CESAS Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space

CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability

CSC Coastal Services Center

CSCOR Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research

CSS decision-support system

CVC Climate Variability and Change

DAAC Distributed Active Archive Centers

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DOE Department of Energy

DOI Department of Interior

DOT Department of Transportation

DSS decision-support system

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2007. Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11987.
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ECOHAB Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms

EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone

EIS Environmental Impact Statements

EOS Earth Observing System

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EROS Earth Resources Observation Systems

ERTS Earth Resource Technology Satellite

ESE Earth Science Enterprise

FAA Federal Aviation Administration

FAWG focus area working groups

FCA Full Cost Accounting

FEWS Famine Early Warning System

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee

GB gigabyte

GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems

GoM Gulf of Mexico

GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

HABHRCA Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act

HDF Hierarchical Data Format

IEOS Interagency Earth Observing System

IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System

ITO Interagency Transition Office

IWG ESA Interagency Working Group in Earth Science Applications

JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

LACIE Large Area Crop Inventory Program

MMS Mineral Management Service

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MODIS Moderate Resolution Imagery Spectroradiometer

MOU memorandum of understanding

MPAR Metrics Planning and Reporting System

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCEP National Center for Environmental Prediction

NEON National Ecological Observatory Network

NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2007. Assessment of the NASA Applied Sciences Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11987.
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NIMA National imagery and Mapping Agency

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOPC National Orthophoto Program Committee

NRC National Research Council

NSGIC National States Geographic Information Council

NSPIRES NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System

NWS National Weather Service

OCS Outer Continental Shelf

ORION Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network

OSIP Operational Satellite Improvement Program

OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment

OUA Office of University Affairs

PART Program Effectiveness Rating Tool

PECAD Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division

POC Point of Contact

R&O Research and Operations

R20 Research to Operations

REACT Rapid Environmental Assessment and Composition Tool

REASoN Research, Education, and Applications Solution Network

ROSES Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences

S&T Science & Technology

SMD Science Mission Directorate

TB terabyte

TM Thematic Mapper

UAV unmanned aerial vehicles

USAID U.S. Agency for International Development

USBoR U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

USDA United States Department of Agriculture

USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program

USGS U.S. Geological Survey

USGS EDC U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center

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