ACRONYMS AND INITIALISMS

ACRONYMS AND INITIALISMS

AFB - Air Force Base
AFGL - Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (at Hanscom AFB, MA)
AFSFC - Air Force Space Forecast Center (at Colorado Springs, CO)
ALMEDS - ALaskan MEteorological Data System
AMSAT - Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
ARRL - American Radio Relay League
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AUTODIN - AUTOmatic DIgital Network
AWS - Air Weather Service (USAF)
COMEDS - CONUS MEteorological Data System
CONUS - CONtinental United States
DALAS - Disk And Limb Activity Summary
DMS - data management system
DMSP - Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOC - Department Of Commerce
DOD - Department Of Defense
EOS - Earth Observing System
ERL - Environmental Research Laboratories
ESA - European Space Agency
GMS - Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (Also called SMS/GOES)
GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
HAO - High Altitude Observatory
HEPAD - High Energy Proton and Alpha Detector (on GOES and TIROS)
HLMS - High Latitude Monitoring Station
HST - Hubble Space Telescope
IAG - International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
ICE - International Cometary Explorer (formerly ISEE-3)
IGY - International Geophysical Year
IMP - Interplanetary Monitoring Platform
IMS - International Magnetospheric Study
INTERMAGNET - An International Consortium of Magnetic Observatories
ISEE-3 - International Sun Earth Explorer-3.
ISTP - International Solar-Terrestrial Program
IUGG - International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IUWDS - International Ursigram and World Days Service
JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC - Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
KPNO - Kitt Peak National Observatory
MEPED - Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector (on GOES and TIROS)
MSFC - Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL)
NAG - Naval Astronautics Group
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBS - National Bureau of Standards
NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
NESDIS - National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NESS - National Environmental Satellite Service
NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center
NGSDC - National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center (Boulder, CO)
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAO - National Optical Astronomy Observatories
NORMEDS - NOrthern MEteorological Data System
NOSC - Naval Ocean Systems Center
NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
NSF - National Science Foundation
NSO - National Solar Observatories (combines Sacramento Peak Observatory and the Solar Section of Kitt Peak Observatory)
NSSDC - National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
OLDS - On-Line Data Systems
PL - Phillips Laboratory (Air Force)
RGON - Remote Geophysical Observing Network
RSTN - Radio Solar Telescope Network (USAF)
RWC - Regional Warning Center
ScI - Science Institute (Space Telescope)
SEL - Space Environment Laboratory (ERL)
SELDADS- Space Environment Laboratory Data Acquisition and Display System
SELSIS - Space Environment Laboratory Solar Imaging System
SEM - Space Environment Monitor (on GOES and TIROS)
SEON - Solar Electro-Optical Network (USAF)
SESC - Space Environment Services Center
SFC - Space Forecast Center (at Falcon AFB, Colorado)
SGAS - Solar Geophysical Activity Summary
SMM - Solar Maximum Mission
SMS - Synchronous Meteorological Satellite
SOON - Solar Observing Optical Network (USAF)
SPAN - Space Physics Analysis Network
SXI - Solar X-ray Imager
TDRS - Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (NASA)
TED - Total (particle) Energy Detector (on TIROS)
TIROS - Television and Infrared Radiation Observation Satellite
TMO - Table Mountain Observatory
URSI - Union Radio Scientifique Internationale (thus, URSIgram: message from URSI).
USAF - United States Air Force
USGS - United States Geological Survey
USSFC - United States Space Forecast Center
WDC - World Data Center
WMO - World Meteorological Organization
WWA - World Warning Agency
WWV - call letters of the standard time and frequency radio station