Acronyms
ACE: Arctic Collaborative Environment
ART: Astronomical Rontgen Telescope
AXP: Anomalous X-ray Pulsar
BATSE: Burst and Transient Source Experiment
CLASP: Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter
CLASP-2: Chromospheric Layer Spectropolarimeter-2
CSPAR: Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
CREST: Coupled Routing and Excess Storage
DEVELOP: NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences Training and Development
DMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DoD: Department of Defense
EOS: Earth Observing System
FOXSI: Focusing X-ray Solar Imager
GBM: Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
GLAST: Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
GLM: Geostationary Lightning Mapper
GMAO: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
GMS: Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement
HERO: High Energy Replicated Optics
Hi-C: High-Resolution Coronal Imager
HIRAD: Hurricane Imaging Radiometer
HRD: Hurricane Research Division
HST: Hubble Space Telescope
IDC: Interplanetary Dust cloud
INTEGRAL: International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory
IPN: Interplanetary Network
IS: Interstellar
ISERV: International Space Station (ISS)/SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System
ISM: Interstellar Medium
ISS: International Space Station
IXPE: Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
JCSDA: Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
JEM: Japanese Experiment Module
JEM-EUSO: Japanese Experiment Module-Extreme Universe Space Observatory
LAT: Large Area Telescope
LCLU: Land Cover/Land Use
LIP: Lightning Instrument Package
LIS: Lightning Imaging Sensor
LMA: Lightning Mapping Array
LST: Land Surface Temperature
MaGIXS: Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrography
MC3E: Midlatitude Continental and Convective Clouds Experiment
MERRA: Modern-Era Analysis for Research and Applications
MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSG: Meteosat Second Generation
MVP: Mars Variable Pressure
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research
NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NEXRAD: National Weather Service Next Generation Radar
NLCD: National Land Cover Database
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSSTC: National Space Science and Technology Center
NWS: National Weather Service
ODC: Optimal Deconvolution
PREAM: Pollen Regional Atmospheric Model
R&A: Research and Analysis
R&D: Research and Development
ROSES: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science
RTMM: Real Time Mission Monitor
S-Z: Sunyaev-Zel'dovitch
SAO: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SEM: Scanning Electron Microscope
SGR: Soft Gamma Repeater
SWEAP: Solar Wind Electrons, Alphas and Protons
SRAG: Space Radiation Analysis Group at Johnson Space Center
SSM/I: Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
SRG: Spectrum-Rontgen-Gamma
SFMR: Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer
SERVIR: Means "To Serve" Serves as the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System
SPIE: International Society for Optics and Photonics
SPoRT: Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center
SPORT: Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task
SRPD: Science Research and Projects Division
TIP: Technology Investment Program
TMI: TRMM Microwave Imager
TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
USAID: U.S. Agency for international Development
USRA: Universities Space Research Association
UAB: University of Alabama in Birmingham
UAH: University of Alabama in Huntsville
UTSI: University of Tennessee Space Institute
UAS: Unmanned Aerial System
UHI: Urban Heat Island
VUV: Vacuum Ultraviolet
VCSI: Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation
WFO: Weather Forecast Office
WRF: Weather Research and Forecast
XRCF: X-ray and Cryogenics Facility