| Acronym | Meaning |
| SAB | Satellite Applications Branch (old. NESDIS) |
| VIS5D | Visualization Of Five-Dimensional Data |
| APP | AVHRR Polar Pathfinder |
| GASP | GOES Aerosol Smoke Product |
| POES | Polar Operational Environmental Satellite |
| CRAS | CIMSS Regional Assimilation System |
| DCS | Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites) |
| H2O | Water (vapor) |
| GEOSAT | GEOdetic SATellite |
| MCIDAS | Man Computer Interactive Data Access System |