| Acronym | Meaning |
| VISSR | Visible And Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer |
| AMTL | Army Material Test Laboratory |
| ALT/RA | Altimeter/Radar Altimeter |
| ADP | Anderson |
| M&S | Materials And Services |
| SPIE | International Society For Optical Engineering |
| ONERA | Office National D'Etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
| PE | Payload Executive |
| PROM | Programmable Read-Only Memory |