| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan) |
| AERONET | Aerosol Robotic Network |
| AirMISR | Airborne MISR |
| ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer |
| ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| CART | Clouds and Radiation Testbed |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS | EOS Data and Information System |
| GCIP | GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
| GLI | Global Imager |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| LBA | Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia |
| LST | Land-Surface Temperature |
| LSE | Land-Surface Emissivity |
| MA | S MODIS Airborne Simulator |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MRBEX | Mississippi River Basin Experiment |
| POLDER | Polarization and Directionality of Earth’s Reflectances |
| PROVE | Prototype Validation Exercise |
| SCAR-A | Sulfate, Clouds and Radiation–Atlantic (Delmarva Peninsula and near-by Atlantic Ocean, July 1993) |
| SCAR-B | Smoke, Clouds and Radiation–Brazil (Brazil, August-September 1995) |
| SCAR-C | Smoke, Clouds and Radiation–California (Pacific Northwest, September 1994) |
| SCF | Science Computing Facility |
| SGP | Southern Great Plains |
| TLCF | Team Leader Computing Facility |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| WINCE | Winter Cloud Experiment |