| Acronym | Meaning |
| NESS | National Earth Satellite Service |
| FEPCA | Federal Environmental Pollution Control Act |
| ACS | Aldus Color File |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation (or Climate) Experiment |
| GWPA | Ground Water Protection Act |
| FT | Fourier Tachometer |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| GSD | Geographical Situation Display |
| PCAS | Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer |