| Acronym | Word or Phrase Acronym Stands For |
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| ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager |
| AC | Atmospheric Corrections |
| AC | Attitude Control |
| ACEPOL | Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| AERONET | Aerosol Robotic Network |
| AFB | Air Force Base |
| AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
| AoLP | Angle of Linear Polarization |
| ASM | Acquisition Strategy Meeting |
| ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| bbp | particle backscattering |
| BOLT | Bearing Only Life Test |
| BPDF | Bidirectional Polarization Distribution Function |
| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| C-HARM | California Harmful Algal Risk Mapping |
| Cal/Val | Calibration and Validation |
| CCD | Charge-coupled Device |
| CDOM | Colored Dissolved Organic Matter |
| Chla | concentration of chlorophyll-a |
| CORAL | COral Reef Airborne Laboratory |
| CSIR | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research |
| CTD | Conductivity, Temperature and Depth |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
| DAU | Data Acquisition Unit |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| DOC | Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
| DoLP | Degree of Linear Polarization |
| DOM | Dissolved Organic Matter |
| ECCO | Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean |
| ESD | Earth Science Division |
| ESTO | Earth Science Technology Office |
| ETU | Engineering Test Unit |
| EXPORTS | Export Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing |
| FDOM | Fluorescence of Dissolved Organic Matter |
| FLH | Fluorescence Line Height |
| FPA | Focal Plane Assembly |
| FRR | Flight Readiness Review |
| GAToR | GSE Application for Tilt or Rotation |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GEO-CAPE | Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| GLAMR | Goddard Laser for Absolute Measure of Radiance |
| GOCI | Geostationary Ocean Color Imager |
| GOES-R | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites R Series |
| GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HAB | Harmful Algal Bloom |
| HAM | Half-Angle Mirror |
| HARP2 | Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter 2 |
| HICO | Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean |
| HISE | Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment |
| HQ | Headquarters |
| HyperStrata | Hyperspectral Retrieval of Stratification in Aquatic Systems |
| I&T | Integration & Testing |
| IFC | Imaging Flow Cytometer |
| IOCCG | International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group |
| IOCS | International Ocean Colour Science |
| IOP | Inherent Optical Property |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IR | Infrared Radiation |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Kd | diffuse attenuation coefficient |
| KDP | Key Decision Point |
| KIOST | Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology |
| KORUS-AQ | Korea - United States Air Quality |
| KORUS-OC | Korea - United States Ocean Color |
| LRD | Launch Readiness Date |
| LRR | Launch Readiness Review |
| MAP | Multi-Angle Polarimeters |
| MCR | Mission Concept Review |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MLA | MicroLens Array |
| MOB | Main Optical Bench |
| MOCNESS | Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOSB | Main Optics Sub-Bench |
| MSRR | Mission System Requirements Review |
| NAAMES | North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study |
| NAP | Non-Algal Products |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NBST | Neutrally-Buoyant Sediment Trap |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NIR | Near Infrared Reflectance |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPP | Net Primary Production |
| NRDA | Natural Resource Damage Assessment |
| NRL | United States Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSO | Netherlands Space Office |
| NSPIRES | NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System |
| NWI | National Wetlands Inventory |
| NWO | Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research |
| OB.DAAC | Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center |
| OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
| OCI | Ocean Color Instrument |
| OCRT | Ocean Color Research Team |
| OLCI | Ocean and Land Color Instrument |
| OM | Optical Module |
| ORCA | Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment |
| ORR | Operations Readiness Review |
| OSA | Optical Society of America |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
| PACE | Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem |
| PAR | Photosynthetically Available Radiation |
| PB | Petabytes |
| PER | Pre-Environmental Review |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PIC | Particulate Inorganic Carbon |
| PLAR | Post Launch Assessment Review |
| PO.DAAC | Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
| POC | Particulate Organic Carbon |
| PRISM | Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer |
| PSR | Pre-Ship Review |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| Rrs | Remote sensing reflectance |
| RSP | Research Scanning Polarimeter |
| SAT | Science and Applications Team |
| SDA | SWIR Detection Assembly |
| SDT | Science Definition Team |
| SeaWiFS | Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
| SLC | Space Launch Complex |
| SLSTR | Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer |
| SOCON | Sustained Ocean Color Observations using Nanosatellites |
| SOI | Schmidt Ocean Institute |
| SPEXone | Spectro-polarimeter for Planetary Exploration |
| SRON | Netherlands Institute for Space Research |
| SSH | Sea Surface Height |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| ST | Science Team |
| Suomi NPP | Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
| SWIR | shortwave infrared |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TDI | Time Delay Integration |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| TSM | Total Suspended Matter |
| TVAC | Thermal Vacuum |
| UA Fairbanks | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UMaine | University of Maine |
| UMBC | University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| URI | University of Rhode Island |
| USEPA | United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| UVP | Underwater Vision Profiler |
| VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
| VSF | Volume Scattering Function |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
