BoM	Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)

CCD	CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCIR	CCIR Consultative Committee on International Radio
CD	CD Compact Disc
CDA	CDA Command and Data Acquisition
CDAS	CDAS Command and Data Acquisition Station
CEOS	CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CGMS	CGMS Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
CHRPT	CHRPT Chinese HRPT
CMA	CMA China Meteorological Agency
CMS	CMS Centre de Meteorologie Spatiale (Lannion)
CMV	CMV Cloud Motion Vector
CMW	CMW Cloud Motion Wind
COSPAR	COSPAR Committee on Space Research
COSPAS	Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov (Russian equivalent of SARSAT)
CDCS	Data Collection System

DMSP	Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (USA)
DOMSAT	Domestic telecommunications relay Satellite
DVD	Digital Versatile Disc
DWD	Deutscher Wetterdienst (Germany)

EARS	ATOVS Retransmission Service
ECT	Equator Crossing Time
ECMWF	European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
ENVISAT	Environment monitoring Satellite
EOS	Earth Observation System
EPS	EUMETSAT Polar System
ERBE	Earth Budget Radiation Experiment
ESA	European Space Agency
ESOC	European Space Operations Centre
ESSA	Environmental Science Services Administration
EUMETSAT	European Meteorological Satellite Organisation

FAA	Federal Aviation Authority
FAX	Facsimile
FOV	Field of View
FY	Feng Yun (cloud and wind) Chinese weather satellites

GAC	Global Area Coverage
GDPT	Global Data Picture Transmission (FY polar satellites)
GERB	Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget
GMS	Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (USA)
GOMS	Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite (Russian Fed.)
GPS	Global Positioning System
GTS	Global Telecommunications System (WMO)
GVAR	GOES Variable

HiRID	High Resolution Imager Data
HIRS	High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
HR	High Resolution
HRD	High Rate Data
HRIT	High Rate Information Transmission
HRPT	High Resolution Picture Transmission
HSRS	High Spectral Resolution Sounder

IDCS	International Data Collection System
IFOV	Instantaneous Field of View
IFRB	International Frequency Registration Board
INSAT	INSAT Indian geostationary Satellite
IR	Infrared
ITOS	Improved TIROS Operational Satellite
ITU	International Telecommunications Union

JAXA	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JMA	Japan Meteorological Agency

KNMI	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

LAC	Local Area Coverage
LDPT	Local Data Picture Transmission (FY polar satellites)
LRD	Low Rate Data (NPOESS)
LRIT	Low Rate Information Transmission
LRPT	Low Rate Picture Transmission
LST	Local Solar Time

MARF	Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility (EUMETSAT)
MDD	Meteorological Data Distribution
METEOR	Polar-orbiting weather satellite (Russian Federation)
METEOSAT	Geostationary weather satellite (EUMETSAT)
METOP	Meteorological Operational Polar satellite (EUMETSAT)
METSAT	Indian geostationary weather satellite
MIRP	Manipulated Information Rate Processor
MODIS	Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSG	Meteosat Second Generation
MSU	Microwave Sounding Unit
MTP	Meteosat Transition Programme
MTSAT	Multi-functional Transport Satellite (Japan)

NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA	National Space Development Agency (Japan)
NESDIS	National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
NMC	National Meteorological Centre
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS	National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP	NPOESS Preparatory Project
NWS	National Weather Service (USA)

OCEANSAT

Ocean applications Satellite (India)

PDUS	Primary Data User Station
POES	Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (USA)

QFH	Quadrifilar Helix

RSO	Rapid Scan Operations
RSS	Rapid Scan Service

SAF	SAF Satellite Applications Facility
SAR	Search and Rescue
SARSAT	Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
SBUV	Solar Backscattered Ultra Violet (Ozone instrument)
SDUS	Secondary Data User Station
SEM	Space Environment Monitor
SEVIRI	Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (MSG)
SMA	State Meteorological Administration (China)
SMD	Stored Mission Data (NPOESS)

SOCC	Satellite Operations Control Center
SSP	Sub-Satellite Point
SST	Sea Surface Temperature
SSU	Stratospheric Sounding Unit
S-VISSR	Stretched VISSR

TBUS	Satellite prediction bulletin
TD	Technical Document
TIP	TIROS Information Processor
TIROS	Television Infra Red Observation Satellite
TOMS	Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOVS	TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

UTC	Universal Coordinated Time

VHRR	Very High Resolution Radiometer
VIRSR	Visible and Infrared Scanning Radiometer (EPS)
VIS	Visible channel
VISSR	Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer

WEFAX	Weather Facsimile
WMO	World Meteorological Organisation
WV	Water Vapour
WWW	World Weather Watch (WMO)

ZAP	Z-axis Precession Mode (GOES)