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Glossario e lista acronimi

 

AC: Aerosol Class

AFRL: Air Force Research Laboratory

AGP: Antenna Gain Pattern

AM: Amplitude Modulation

AMI: Active Microwave Instrument

AOT: Aerosol optical thickness

ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana.

ATSR: Along Track Scanning Radiometer

AV: Added Value

AVC: Added Value Centre

AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

BATS: Biosphere Atmosphere Transfer Scheme

C/A: Coarse/Acquisition

CD: Compact Disk

CFC: Cloro-Fluoro-Carburo

CNR: Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche

CORINE: CO-oRdination of INformation on the Environment

COT: Cloud Optical Thickness

COTS: Commercial Off The Shelf

CTH: Cloud Top Height

DCI: Differential Correction Inc.

DEM: Digital Elevation Model

DGPS: Differential GPS

DIAL: Differential Absorption Lidar

DIFSAR: Differential InterFerometry con SAR

DN: Digital Number

DoD: Departement of Defense

DSP: Digital Signal Processing

DTM: Digital Terrain Model

DU: Dobson Unit

ECMWF: European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasts

EEA: European Environmental Agency

ENAV: Ente Nazionale Autonomo di Assistenza al Volo

EO: Earth Observation

EOD: Earth Observation Data

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

ERBE: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

EROS: Earth Resources Observation System

ERS: Earth Resource Satellite

ESA: European Space Agency

EU: European Community.

FAA: Federal Aviation Administration

FM: Frequency Modulation

FMA: Fondazione per la Meteorologia Applicata.

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

GCM: General Circulation Model

GCP: Ground Control Point

GIM: Geocoded Incidence angle Mask

GIS: Geographic Information System

GLCC. Global Land Cover Characterization

GMT: Greenwich Mean Time

GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite System

GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GOME: Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

GOMOS: Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars

GPS: Global Positioning System

GPS: Global Positioning System

GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center

GSM: Global System for Mobile communication

GTC: Geocoded Terrain Corrected

HPLC: High Performance Liquid Cromatographer

HTML: HyperText Markup Language

IF: Interferometry

IFSAR: InterFerometria con SAR

IGARSS: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

IGF: Istituto di Geofisica dei Fluidi

IGM: Istituto Geografico Militare

IGS: International Geographic System

IGS: International GPS Services (for Geodynamics)

IHS: Intensity Hue Saturation

IMGA: Istituto per lo studio delle Metodologie Geofisiche ed Ambientali

IPWV: Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor

IR: Infra Rosso

IRECE: Istituto di Ricerca per l~RElettromagnetismo ed i Componenti Elettronici

IRS: Indian Remote sensing Satellite

ISAO: Istituto delle Scienze dell~RAtmosfera e dell~ROceano.

ISDN. Integrated Service Digital Network

JERS: Japanese Earth Resource Satellite

JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

LAI: Leaf Area Index

LAMMA: Laboratorio per la Meteorologia e la Modellistica Ambientale della Regione Toscana.

LNA: Low Noise Amplifier

LORAN:Long Range Navigation (system)

LST: Land Surface Temperature

LWIR: Long Wavelength InfraRed

MERIS: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

MINERVE:

MIPAS: Michelson Interferometric Passive Atmosphere Sounder

MIVIS: Multispectral Infrared and Visible Imaging Spectrometer

MM5: Mesoscale Model 5

MODB: Mediterranean Oceanic Data Base.

MODIS: MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer

MOMS: Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner

MORA: Multitemporal Optimal Resolution Approach

MOS: Modiular Optoelectronic Scanner

MSG: Meteosat Second Generation

MSS: Multi Spectral Scanner

MVC: Maximum Value Composite

NASA: National Astronautic Administration.

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NDVI: Normalized Differential Vegetation Index

NIR: Near InfraRed

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

OCM: Ocean Color Monitor

ODL: Object Description Language.

ORA: Optimal Resolution Approach

PC: Personal Computer

PLAID: Patchy Land-Atmospere Interactions Dynamics

PMD: Polarization Monitoring Device

PODAAC: Physical Oceanography Distributed Data Active Archive Center

PRF: Pulse Repetition Frequency

PRI: PRecision Image

PRN: Pseudorandom Noise

PSTdA: Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico d~RAbruzzo

PW: Precipitable Water

PWC: Precipitable Water Content

RAM: Random Access Memory

RAMS: Regional Atmospheric Modeling System

RASS: Radio Acoustic Sounding System

RDS: Radio Data System

RGB: Red, Green, Blue

RINEX: Receiver Independent Exchange (format)

RMS: Root Mean Square

RTCM:Radio Technical Commission for Maritime (services)

RTK: Real Time Kinematic

RTM: Radiative Transfer Model

SA: Selective Availability

SAGE: Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar

SCIAMACHY: Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography

SLC: Single Look Complex

SPOT: Systeme Probatoire d~RObservation de la Terre

SPRAY:

SST: Sea Surface Temperature

SVATS: Soil-Vegetation Atmospheric Transfer Scheme

SWIR: Short Wavelength InfraRed

SZA: Solar Zenith Angle

TBD: To Be Determined

TBF: To Be Found

TM: Tematic Mapper

TOA: Top Of the Atmosphere

TOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

UHF: Ultra High Frequency

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

USGS: U.S. Geological Survey

UTC: Universal Time

UTM: Universal Transverse Mercator

UV: UltraVioletto

VHF: Very High Frequency

WAAS: Wide Area Augmentation Service

WADGPS : Wide Area Differential GPS

WAIS: Wide Area Information Service.

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure

WGS: World Geodetic System

WP: Work Package

WVR: Water Vapor Radiometer

WWW: World Wide Web.

ZPD: Zenith Path Delay

ZTD: Zenith Total Delay

ZWD: Zenith Wet Delay