| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERS-2 | European Remote Sensing |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| ATSR | Argonne Thermal Source Reactor |
| ARC | Antarctic Research Center |
| OFS | Office Of Field Project Support |
| GEOSECS | Geochemical Ocean Sections |
| XANADU | Software Name |
| VBNS | Very High Performance Backbone Network Service |
| ACRT | Aircraft Report |
| HRV | High-resolution Visible |