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Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class (2022)

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26499.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACT Advanced Component Technology
AirMSPI-2 Airborne Multi-angle Spectro Polarimetric Imager-2
AO announcement of opportunity
Athena-OAWL Atmospheric Transport, Hurricanes and Extratropical Numerical Weather Prediction-Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar
CDR contract data requirement
CERES Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System
CO carbon monoxide
COVID coronavirus
CYGNSS Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System
ECOSTRESS Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station
EMIT Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation
EOS Earth Observing System
ESAS Earth Science and Applications from Space
ESD Earth Science Division
ESSP Earth System Science Pathfinder
ESSPPO ESSP Program Office
ESTO Earth Science Technology Office
EV Earth Venture
EV-C Earth Venture Continuity
EV-I Earth Venture Instrument
EV-M Earth Venture Mission
EV-S Earth Venture Suborbital
FY fiscal year
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26499.
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GA-EMS General Atomic Electromagnetic Systems
GEDI Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation
GEMS geostationary scanning ultraviolet-visible spectrometer
GEO geosynchronous Earth orbit
GEO-CAPE Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events
GeoCarb Geostationary Carbon Observatory
GLIMR Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS Global Positioning System
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
HQ Headquarters
IIP Instrument Incubator Program
INCUS Investigation of Convective Updrafts
IR infrared
ISS International Space Station
JEM-EF Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
KDP key decision point
LaRC Langley Research Center
LEO low Earth orbit
LSP Launch Services Program
MAIA Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols
MIDEX Medium-class Explorer
MIT LL MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MoO Mission of Opportunity
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPR NASA Procedural Requirement
OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2
PI principal investigator
PM project manager
PREFIRE Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment
RFP request for proposal
ROSES Research Opportunities in the Space and Earth Sciences
SMD Science Mission Directorate
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26499.
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SMA safety and mission assurance
SMEX Small Explorer (a class of missions)
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
TEMPEST Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical System
TEMPO Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution
TIR thermal infrared
TMC technical, management, and cost
TRL technology readiness level
TROPICS Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats
YAG yttrium-aluminum garnet
Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26499.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26499.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA's Earth Venture Class. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26499.
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The NASA Science Mission Directorate/Earth Science Division's (SMD/ESD's) Earth Venture (EV) is a program element within the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program. At the request of NASA, this report examines the Earth Venture Instrument (EV-I) and Earth Venture Mission (EV-M) elements of Earth Ventures and explores lessons learned in the more than 10 years since selection of the first EV mission, including a review of the foundational principles and approaches underlying the program.

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