AGC 		Automatic Gain Control
AMI 		Active Microwave Instrumentation
ASCII		American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATSR		Along-Track Scanning Radiometer and Microwave Sounder
BER 		Bit Error Rate
BPI 		Bytes Per Inch
CCT  		Computer-Compatible Tape
CEOS-WGD	Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
		- Working Group on Data
CFE  		Customer Furnished Equipment
CN   		Communications Node
CTRS		Conventional Terrestrial Reference System
cus 		Central User Service
DAF  		Data Acquisition Facility
DEC 		Digital Equipment Corporation
DECnet		DEC Computer Network Protocol
DPMC 		Data Processing, Monitoring and Control Facility
DPS  		Data Path Switcher
DRR  		Data Recording and Reproduction
EECF 		Earthnet ERS Central Facility 
EGS  		ESA ERS-1 Ground stations
EOF  		End Of File
EPO 		Earthnet Programme Office
ERS  		European Remote Sensing Satellite(s)
ESA  		European Space Agency
ESRIN		European Space Research Institute
FD   		Fast Delivery
FDP  		Fast Delivery Processor
FFT  		Fast Fourier-Transform
FS   		Frame Synchroniser
FS   		Fucino Station
FTP  		File Transfer Protocol
FUC  		Fucino Station
GS   		Ground Segment
GS   		Gatineau Station
GAP  		Global Activity Plan
GAT  		Gatineau Station
H/W  		Hardware
HDDR 		High Density Digital Recorder
HDDT 		High Density Digital Tape
HR   		High Rate
HSL  		High Speed Link
icu  		Interface Control Unit
I/F  		Interface
IDHT 		Instrument Data Handling and Transmission
II16 		Intermediate AMI Image 16 bit product
IPS  		Inches Per Second
IRG  		Inter Record Gap
IRIG 		Interrange Instrumentation Group
ISLR 		Integrated Sidelobe Ratio
IWA  		Intermediate Product: AMI Wave
KS   		Kiruna Station
LR   		Low Rate
LRDPF		Low Rate Data Processing Facility
LRDTF		Low Rate Data Transcription Facility
LSB  		Least Significant Bit
LUT  		Look-Up Table
MAS  		Maspalomas Station
MS   		Maspalomas Station
MMCC 		Mission Management and Control Centre
MPH  		Main Product Header
N/A  		Not Applicable
OB   		Output Buffer
OBC  		On-Board Computer
OBRC 		On Board Range Compressed
PA   		Prince Albert Station
PAF  		Processing and Archiving Facility(ies)
PB   		Playback
PCD  		Product Confidence Data
PF   		Platform
PRN  		Pseudo-Random Noise
PSDN 		Packet Switching Data Network
RA   		Radar Altimeter
RATSR		Raw ATSR Data Product
RAL  		Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (UK)
RF   		Radio Frequency
RH   		Raw High rate data Product
RL   		Raw Low rate data Product
RMS  		Root Mean Square
RT   		Real-Time
S/C  		System-Corrected
S/S  		Subsystem
S/W  		Software
SAR  		Synthetic Aperture Radar
SAR FDP		Synthetic Aperture Radar Fast Delivery Processor
SWH  		Significant Wave Height
SPH  		Specific Product Header
TBC  		To Be Confirmed
TBD  		To Be Determined
TCG  		Time Code Generator
TCR  		Time Code Reader
TSU  		Time Search Unit
TTC 		Tracking, Telecommand and Control
TTCDAF      	TTC and DAF facilities
UI16 		Fast Delivery Product: AMI Image-16 bit
UI8  		Fast Delivery Product: AMI Image-8 bit
URA  		Fast Delivery Product: Radar Altimeter
UTC  		Universal Time, Coordinated
UWA  		Fast Delivery Product: AMI Wave
UWI  		Fast Delivery Product: AMI Wind

Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry