| Acronym | Meaning |
| SISEX | Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment |
| UT / LS | Upper Troposphere/ Lower Stratosphere |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| AMESS | Autonomous Machine Environmental Surveillance System |
| MPS | Mesoscale Prediction Section |
| ESD | Environmental Satellite Data |
| CAM | Cost Account Manager |
| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratory |
| SVAT | Surface Vegetation- Atmosphere Transfer |
| PRE-AWIPS | Preprototype AWIPS |