Acronyms meaning in Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing There are many different words or phrases that we use to describe remote sensing, All those words or sentences are said or written in short to remember. Those little word are called acronyms. Below are several acronyms that are used in remote sensing.

 SAR  -  Synthetic Aperture Radar

 LIDAR  -  Light Detection and Ranging

 MODIS  -  Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

 Landsat  -  Land Remote Sensing Satellite

 AVHRR  -  Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

 DEM  -  Digital Elevation Model

 DSM  -  Digital Surface Model

 NDVI  -  Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

 SRTM  -  Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

 GSD  -  Ground Sample Distance

 FOV  -  Field of View

 GPS  -  Global Positioning System

 CCD  -  Charge Coupled Device

 SWIR  -  Shortwave Infrared

 TIR  -  Thermal Infrared

AVHRR  -  Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometry

TM   -  Thematic Mapper

MSS  -  Multi spectral scanner

MODIS  -   Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

IRS  -  Indian Remote Sensing Satellite

IKONOS  -  The Greek word for 'image'

SPOT   -  Systeme Probatoire D’Observation De La Terre (France)

LIDAR   -  Laser Image Detection and Ranging

UHF  -  ultra high frequency

BIL  -  band interleaved by line

BIP  -  band interleaved by pixel

BSQ  -  band sequential 

BW   -  black and white

CIR   -  color infrared

DO(Q)Q  -  digital orthophoto (quarter) quad

EROS  -  Earth Resources Observation Systems

EDC  -  EROS Data Center

IFOV  -  instantaneous field of view

NASA  -  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NOAA  -  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NIMA  -  national image and mapping agency

MRLC  -  multi resolution land characteristics consortium

NLCD  -  national land cover data

LCCP  -  land cover characterization program

NALC  -  North American Landscape Characterization Project

GAP  -  National Gap Analysis Program

GSFC  -  Goddard Space Flight Center

GSTC  -   Geospatial Service and Technology Center

FAS   -  Foreign Agricultural service

NRI   -  national resource inventory

FGDC   -  federal geographic data committee

NRCS  -  national resources conservation service (a USDI agency)

NAWQA  -  National Water Quality Assessment Program (a USGS program)

CCAP - coastal change analysis program

These acronyms are frequently used in the context of remote sensing data, instruments, and applications. Understanding their meanings can help you better interpret and analyze remote sensing data, as well as communicate with others in the remote sensing field.

Apart from these, if there are some other short words on remote sensing, please comment.