A

ACRES Australian Centre for Remote Sensing

AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

B

BIL Band Interleaved by Line

BIP Band Interleaved bye Pixel

BSQ Band SeQuentional

C

CCRS Canada Centre of Remote Sensing

CCT Computer Compatible Tapes ('family' of tape formats)

CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CNIE Comission Nacional de Investigaciones Espesiales

CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales France

CORINE Coordination of Information on the Environment

CSA Canadian Space Agency

CSRSR Centre for Space and Remote Sensing Research (Taiwan)

CZCS Nimbus-7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner

CMS Ciastkovy Monitorovaci System

D

DALI Data Aquisition Library Information

DB DataBase

DTM Digital Terrain Model

E

EEA Europen Environment Agency

EOSAT Earth Observation Satellite Company

EPA Environment Protection Agency (USA)

ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

EROS Earth Resources Observation Satellite data centre

ERS Euaropean Remote Sensing Satellite

ESA European Space Agency

ESOC European Space Operation Centre (Darmstadt)

ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands US)

ESTEC ESA Technical Establishment Commitee

ETM Enhanced Thematic Mapper

F

FTP File Transfer Protocol

G

GCNET Global Change NETwork

GCP Ground Control Point

GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

GIF Graphic Interchange Format

GIS Geographic Information System

GLOBESAR Globe SAR data acquisition Programme

GPS Global Positioning System

GRASS Geographic Resources Analysis Support System

GRS Grille de reference SPOT

H

HDDT High Density Data Tapes

HIS High Intensity Saturation

HRV Haute Resolution Visible

HW Hardware

I

IS Information System

ISA Israel Space Agency

INPE Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias Braz¡lia

INTERNET INTERnational NETwork

ISO International Standards Organization

ISLSCP International Satellite Land Surfaces Climatology

ISPRS International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

ISZP Informacny System Zivotneho Prostredia

J

JTSK Jednotna Trigonometricka Siet Katastralna

K

KACST King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology Saudi Arabia

L

LAPAN Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautic and Space Indonesia

LEDA on Line Earthnet Data Availability

LGSOWG Landsat Ground Station Operators Group (format CCT)

LUT Look Up Table

M

MESSR Multispectral Electronic SelfScanning Radiometer

ML Mapovy list

MOS Marine Observation Satellites

MSS MuliSpectral Scanner

MSR Microwave Scanning Radiometer

MZP SR Ministerstvo Zivotneho Prostredia Sloveskej Republiky

N

NASA National Aeronautic and Space Administration

NASDA National Space Development Agency of Japan

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NBIOME Northern Biosphere Observation and Modelling Experiment

NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NIT Norway Information Technology

NITR National Institute for Telecomunication Research South Africa

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRCT National Research Council of Thailand

NRSA National Remote Sensing Agency of India

O

OIM Odbor Informatiky a Monitoringu

Q

QIC Quarter Inch Cassete

R

RESTEC Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan

RGB Red, Green, Blue

RUSES Regionalne uzemne Systemy Ekologickej Stability

S

SANET Slovak Academic NETwork

SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar

SAV Slovenska Akademia Vied

SAZP Slovensk  Agentura Zivotneho Prostredia

SHMU Slovensky Hydrometeorologicky Ustav

SIMMS Sea Ice Monitoring and Modelling Site

SKZP byvala Slovenska Komisia Zivotneho Prostredia

SNR Slovenska Narodna Rada

SPOT Satellit Pour l'Observation de Terre

SR Slovenska Republika

SQL Structure Query Languege

SSC Swedish Space Corporation

SSDPZ byvale Slovenske Stredisko Dialkoveho Prieskumu Zeme

SUPARCO Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission Pakistan

SW Software

S42 Suradnicovy system 1942

SIS Statny Informacny System

T

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TOGA Tropical Oceans Global Atmospheric Experiment

TM Thematic Mapper

U

UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research

US United States

USGS US Geological Surve

UTM Universal Transverse Mercator

UAK Ustav Aplikovanej Kybernetiky

V

VTIR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer

VUGaK Vyskumny ustav Geodezie a Kartografie

VUVH Vyskumny ustav Vodneho Hospodarstva

VULH byvaly Vyskumny ustav Lesneho Hospodarstva

VUPU Vyskumny ustav Podnej urodnosti

Z

ZM Zakladna Mapa

ZP Zivotne Prostredie

W

WCRP World Climate Research Programme

WGS World Geodetic System

WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment

WRS World Reference System (plati pre satelity LANDSAT)

WWW World-Wide Web