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Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACT | Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
AI | Agenda Item |
ALMA | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array |
ALOS | Advanced Land Observing Satellite |
AMR | Advanced Microwave Radiometer |
AMR-C | Advanced Microwave Radiometer—Climate Quality |
AMS | Aeronautical Mobile Service |
AMSR2 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 |
AMSR3 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 |
AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A |
APEX | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment |
APR | Airborne Precipitation Radar |
ARO | Arizona Radio Observatory |
ATCA | Australia Telescope Compact Array |
ATMS | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (JPSS) |
BICEP-Keck | The BICEP and Keck arrays of small CMB telescopes |
CEPT | European Post and Telecommunications Conference |
CFOSAT | Chinese-French Oceanography Satellite |
CFR | Code of Federal Regulations (U.S.) |
CH | methyladyne |
CH3OH | methanol |
CIMR | Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (ESA) |
CIR | Coronal Interaction Region |
CITEL | Inter-American Telecommunications Commission |
CLASS | Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor |
ClO | chlorine monoxide |
CMA | China Meteorological Administration |
CMB | cosmic microwave background |
CME | coronal mass ejection |
CNPC | Control and Non-Payload Communications |
CNSA | China National Space Administration |
CO | carbon monoxide |
COMPIRA | Coastal and Ocean Measurement Mission with Precise and Innovative Radar Altimeter (JAXA) |
CONAE | Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (Argentinian space agency) |
CS | carbon monosulfide |
dBW | decibel watt [power in dBW = 10 log10 (Power/1W)] |
DLITE | Deployable Low Frequency Ionosphere and Transient Experiment |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DPR | Dual frequency Precipitation Radar |
DSM | Dynamic Spectrum Management |
EESS | Earth Exploration-Satellite Service |
e.i.r.p. | equivalent isotropically radiated power |
EOP | Earth Orientation Parameters |
epfd | equivalent power flux density |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESAA | Earth Stations Aboard Aircraft |
ESIM | Earth station in motion |
EUMETSAT | European Meteorological Satellite agency |
EVN | European VLBI Network |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
FAST | Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope |
FEDOME | Fédération des Données Météorologiques de l’Espace (France) |
FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
FFT | fast Fourier transform |
FS | Fixed Service |
FSS | Fixed-Satellite Service |
GBT | Green Bank Telescope |
GCOM-W | Global Change Observation Mission—Water |
GLT | Greenland Telescope |
GMDSS | Global Maritime Distress Safety Systems |
GMI | GPM Microwave Imager |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite Service |
GOSAT-GW | Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite—Gasses and Water Cycle |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement (NASA) |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GSO | geostationary orbit |
HartRAO | Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory |
HCN | hydrogen cyanide |
HCO+ | formylium |
HF | high frequency [3-30 MHz] |
HIBS | high-altitude platform stations as IMT Base Stations |
HIRAX | Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis Experiment |
ICI | Ice Cloud Imager (ESA) |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IFOV | instantaneous field of view |
IMO | International Maritime Organization |
IMT | International Mobile Telecommunications |
IRAM | Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter Range |
ISRO | Indian Space Research Organization |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
JASON | Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
JCMT | James Clark Maxwell Telescope |
JPSS | Joint Polar Satellite System |
KP | Kitt Peak |
KVN | Korean VLBI Network |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
LMS | land mobile service |
LMT | Large Millimeter Telescope |
LOFAR | Low Frequency Array |
LoFASM | Low Frequency All Sky Monitor |
LWA | Long Wavelength Array |
MENA | Middle East and North Africa |
MERLIN | Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network |
MicroMAS | Microsized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite |
MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder |
MSS | Mobile-Satellite Service |
MTVZA-GY | “Module for Temperature and Humidity Sounding of the Atmosphere – G.Ya.Guskov” (Russian) |
MWA | Murchison Widefield Array |
MWI | Microwave Imager |
MWR | Microwave Radiometer |
MWRI | Microwave Radiation Imager |
NANTEN2 | Second Nanten (南天, Southern Sky) telescope |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NenuFAR | New Extension in Nançay Upgrading LOFAR |
NEO | near Earth objects |
NEXRAD | Next Generation Weather Radar |
ngVLA | Next Generation Very Large Array |
NISAR | NASA ISRO SAR |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOEMA | Northern Extended Millimeter Array |
NPOESS | National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite |
NPP | NPOESS Preparatory Program |
NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NSOAS | National Satellite Ocean Application Service (China) |
OOBE | out-of-band emission |
ORFEES | Observation Radiospéctrale pour FEDOME et les Etudes des Eruptions Solaires |
OSCAT | OceanSat Scatterometer |
PALSAR | Phased Array Type L-Band SAR |
POLARBEAR | Name of a CMB experiment, formerly an acronym |
QTT | Qitai Radio Telescope |
RA.769 | Recommendation ITU-R RA.769 contains threshold levels considered harmful to RAS |
RAS | Radio Astronomy Service |
RF | radio frequency |
RFI | radio frequency interference |
RNSS | Radionavigation-Satellite Service |
RR | Radio Regulation |
RR 5.149 | Footnote RR 5.149 lists frequency bands for which Administrations are urged to take all practicable steps to protect radio astronomy |
RR 5.340 | Footnote RR 5.340 lists frequency bands for which all emissions are prohibited |
RRL | Radio Recombination Line |
RS.2017 | Recommendation ITU-R RS.2017 contains threshold levels considered harmful to EESS |
SAOCOM | Satélite Argentino de Observación Con Microondas |
SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
SHF | super high frequency [3–30 GHz] |
SIRAL | SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter |
SKA | Square Kilometre Array |
SMA | Submillimeter Array |
SMAP | Soil Moisture Active Passive |
SMOS | Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity |
SMR | Submillimeter Radiometer |
SMT | Sub-Millimeter Telescope (ARO) |
spfd | spectral power flux density |
SPT | South Pole Telescope |
SRAL | Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter |
SRS | Space Research Service |
SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
SSMIS | Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder |
SWE | snow water equivalent |
SWIM | Surface Waves Investigation and Monitoring |
SWOT | Surface Water and Ocean Topography |
TGRS | Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager |
TRAO | Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory |
TRMM | Tropical Rain Fall Measurement Mission |
TROPICS | Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats |
TWICE | Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud Ice |
UAS | unmanned aircraft system |
UHF | ultra high frequency [300–3000 MHz] |
USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development |
USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
VERA | VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry |
VHF | very high frequency [30-300 MHz] |
VLA | Very Large Array |
VLBA | Very Long Baseline Array |
VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
VLF | very low frequency [3-30 kHz] |
WISM | Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements |
WRC | World Radiocommunication Conference |
WSF | Weather Satellite Follow-on |
WSR | Weather Surveillance Radar |