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Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Pages 109-114

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From page 109...
... CH methyladyne CH3OH methanol CIMR Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (ESA)
From page 110...
... 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
From page 111...
... 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
From page 112...
... 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
From page 113...
... 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]
From page 114...
... 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


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