- ASDC: Atmospheric Science Data Center (at NASA Langley Research Center)
- BTDF: Bidirectional Transmittance Distribution Function
- CMI: Cloud Moisture Imagery product
- FOR: Field of Regard
- GEOS: Goddard Earth Observing System
- GEOS-CF: GEOS Composition Forecasting
- GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program
- GPSR: Global Positioning System Receiver
- INR: Image Navigation and Registration
- RD: Reference Diffuser
- SAO: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- S/C Spacecraft
- SDPC: Science Data Processing Center (at SAO)
- TEMPO: Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution
- WD: Working Diffuser