| Acronym | Meaning |
| GOALS | Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System |
| TDLAS | Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy |
| CDDIS | Crustal Dynamics Data Information System |
| DPC | DLESE Program Center |
| WIND II | Wind Imaging Interferometer |
| IPEI | Ionospheric Plasma And Electrodynamics Instrument |
| NSN | NASA Science Network |
| GMD-1 | N/A |
| RDF | Radio Direction Finding |
| UT | Universal Time |