Acronyms and Terms List (Glossary)
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ACE: Advanced Composition Explorer
ADAPT: Active Data Archive Product Tracking
ADC: Astronomical Data Center
ADS: Astrophysics Data System
AE: Atmospheric Exploration
AEROS: AEROnomy Satellite
AI: Artificial Intelligence
AIM: Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere
AIP: Archive Information Package
AIST: Advanced Information Systems Technologies
AMDA: Automated Multi-Dataset Analysis
AMPTE: Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
API: Application Programming Interface
ARCAD: Arc Aurorale et Densite
ARTEMIS: Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun probes
APEX-MAIN: Active Plasma Experiment
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATMOWeb: Web interface for ATMOspheric data
AU: Astronomical Unit
AUTUMN: Athabasca University THEMIS UCLA Magnetometer Network
AVHRR: Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
B
BARREL: Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses
C
CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
CAMEL: Comprehensive Assessment of Models and Events Using Library Tools
CCMC: Community Coordinated Modeling Center
CCSDS: Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
CDAS: Coordinated Data Analysis Systems Web Services API
CDAWeb: Coordinated Data Analysis Web Data Exploring and Browsing System
CDAW: Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop Data Center
CDF: Common Data Format
CDPP: Centre de Données de la Physique des Plasmas
CEF: Cluster Exchange Format
CGM: Corrected GeoMagnetic
CGRO: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
CHS: The Nagoya University Center for Heliospheric Science
CINDI: Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations
CME: Coronal mass ejection
CMR: Community Coordinated Modeling Center Metadata Registry
CNES: Centre national d’études spatiales
C/NOFS: Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System
CNSA: Chinese National Space Administration
COBE: Cosmic Background Explorer
COHOWeb: Coordinated Heliospheric Observations
CRaTER LRO: Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation instrument
CREAM: Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass
CRRES: Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
CSSWE: Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment
CYGNSS: Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System
D
DARTS JAXA: Data ARchives and Transmission System Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency
DE: Dynamics Explorer
DEDSL: Data Entity Dictionary Specification Language
DEMETER: Detection of Electromagnetic Emissions Transmitted from Earthquake Regions
DLT: Digital Linear Tape
DMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOI: Digital Object Identifier
DRIVE: Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate
DSCOVR: Deep Space Climate Observatory
DWSS: Defense Weather Satellite System
E
ELFIN: Electron Losses and Fields Investigation
ELV: Expendable Launch Vehicle
EOS: Earth Observing System
EOSDIS: EOS Data and Information System
EPN-TAP: EuroPlaNet-Table Access Protocol
ERG: Energization and Radiation in Geospace (Arase)
ESA: European Space Agency
ESAC: European Space Astronomy Centre
ESD: Earth Science Division
ESDC ESAC: Earth Science Data Centre European Space Astronomy Centre
EUMETSAT: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EUVE: Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
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FAME: Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer
FAST: Fast Auroral SnapshoT
FEP: Formats Evolution Process
FEPC: Formats Evolution Process Committee
FIREBIRD: Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst Intensity, Range, and Dynamics
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System
FSO: FITS Support Office
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
FUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
G
GCOM W1: Global Change Observation Mission-Water
GEMS: Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer
GEO: Geostationary Orbit
GEOS: Goddard Earth Observing System
GMS 3: Geostationary Meteorological Satellites
GOCE: Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer
GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOLD: Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk
GPS: Global Positioning System
GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GRAIL: Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
GRB: Gamma-Ray Burst
GSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center
GUI: Graphical User Interface
H
HAPI: Heliophysics Application Programming Interface
HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
HDMC: Heliophysics Data and Model Consortium
HDO: Heliophysics Digital Observatory
HDP: Heliophysics Data Portal
HDRL: Heliophysics Digital Resource Library
HEAO: High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
HEK: Heliophysics Knowledge Base
HELCATS: Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques Service
H-GCR: Heliophysics-Grand Challenges Research
H-GI: Heliophysics-Guest Investigator
HSD: Heliophysics Science Division
HSO: Heliophysics System Observatory Connect
HST: Hubble Space Telescope
HTIDeS: Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science
HUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
I
IACG: Interagency Consultative Group
IAU: International Astronomical Union
IBEX: Interstellar Boundary Explorer ICEsat-2 Ice, Clouds and land Elevation Satellite-2
ICON: Ionospheric Connection
IDA: Interactive Data Archive
IDL: Interactive Data Language
IHDEA: International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance
IIP: Instrument Incubator Program
IMAGE: Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration
IMP 7: Interplanetary Monitoring Platform
IMPEx: Integrated Medium for Planetary Exploration
IR: Infrared
IRAND: Interactive Request and Name Directory
IRAS: Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRIS: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph
ISEE: International Sun-Earth Explorer
ISIS: International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies
ISS: International Space Station
ISS-SOLAR: International Space Station SOLAR package
ISERV: ISS SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System
ISO: International Standards Organization
ISTP: International Solar Terrestrial Physics
ITAR: International Traffic in Arms Regulations
IVOA: International Virtual Observatory Alliance
IUE: International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUGONET: Inter-University Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork
J
JASD: Joint Agency Satellite Division
JASON: Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network
JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JPSS: Joint Polar Satellite System
JUICE: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
JWST: James Webb Space Telescope
L
L1: Lagrange point 1
LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LADEE: Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer
LCAS: Low-Cost Access to Space
LEO: Low Earth Orbit
LIS: Lightning Imaging Sensor
LISA: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LIST: Lidar Surface Topography
LMSSC: Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
LRO: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
M
MAGSAT: MAGnetic field SATellite
MAP: Microwave Anisotropy Probe
MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI
MatISSE: Maturation of Instruments for Solar System Exploration
MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN
MAX-C: Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher
MEP: Mars Exploration Program
MESSENGER: Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging
MetOp: Meteorological Operational
MMS: Magnetospheric Multiscale science data center
M-O: Magneto-Optic
MRO: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
MSIS: Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter
MSL: Mars Science Laboratory
MSX: Midcourse Space Experiment
N
NAC: NASA Advisory Council
NAI: NASA Astrobiology Institute
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEI: National Centers for Environmental Information
NDAS: NSSDC Data Archive and Distribution System
NEO: Near-Earth Object
NEOWISE: Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
netCDF: Network Common Data Form
NIAC: NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts
NICER: Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer
NI-SAR: NASA-India Space Research Organization Synthetic Aperture Radar
NMC: NSSDC Master Catalog
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOST: NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology
NPOESS: National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP: National Polar-Orbiting Partnership
NRA: NASA Research Announcement
NRAO: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRC: National Research Council
NRO: National Reconnaissance Office
NSF: National Science Foundation
NSDF: NSSDC Supplementary Data File
NSSDC: NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive
NSTC: National Science and Technology Council
NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
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OAIS: Open Archival Information System
OGLE: Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
OGO: Orbiting Geophysical Observatories
ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier
OSC: Orbital Sciences Corporation
OSIRIS-REx: Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security Regolith Explorer
OSO: Orbiting Solar Observatory
OV: Orbiting Vehicle
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PARASOL: Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectance for Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from LIDAR
P2SA ESA: Proba-2 long term archive
PDS: Planetary Data System
PI: Principal Investigator
PIMS: Personnel Information Management System
POES: Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites
PRBEM: Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modeling
PSP: Parker Solar Probe
PVL: Parameter Value Language
PyHC: Python in Heliophysics Community
R
R&A: Research and analysis
RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RapidScat: Rapid Scatterometer
RBSP: Radiation Belt Storm Probes (Van Allen Probes)
REACH: Responsive Environmental Assessment Commercially Hosted
REST: Representational Space Transfer web services
RHESSI: Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscope Imager
ROR CCMC: Run-On-Request Community Coordinated Modeling Center service
ROSES: Research Opportunities in the Space and Earth Sciences
RPS: Radioisotope Power System
S
SAMPEX: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
SBIR: Small Business Innovative Research
SCATHA: Spacecraft Charging AT High Altitude
SCOSTEP PRESTO: Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics PREdictability of the variable Solar-Terrestrial cOupling Program
SDAC: Solar Data Analysis Center
SDO: Solar Dynamics Observatory
SDT: Science Definition Team
SEC: Sun Earth Connection
SECEF: Sun Earth Connection Education Forum
SEM: Space Environment Monitor
SEPOF: Science Education and Public Outreach Forum
SET-1/DSX: Space Environment Testbed Demonstration and Science Experiments
SI: International System of Units
SLS: Space Launch System
SMD: Science Mission Directorate
SMILE: Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer
SMWG: SPASE Metadata Working Group
SMWT: SPASE Metadata Working Team
SNOE: Student Nitric Oxide Explorer
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAR ESA: Solar Orbiter ARchive European Space Agency
SOC: Solar Orbiter Collaboration
SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
SOLRAD: SOLar RADiation
SORCE: Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
SPASE: Space Physics Archive Search and Extract
SPDF: Space Physics Data Facility
SPEDAS: Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System
SPICA: Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics
SPP: Solar Probe Plus
SPyCAT: Space Physics CATalog
SSERVI: Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute
SSC: Satellite Situation Center
SSCWeb: Satellite Situation Center Web Services
SSDOO: Space Science Data Operations Office
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
STEREO: Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory
STScI: Space Telescope Science Institute
SuperDARN: Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
SWA: Solar Wind Analyser
SWAS: Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
SXI: Solar X-ray Imager
T
TAP: Table Access Protocol
TCTE TSI: Total Calibration Transfer Experiment Total Solar Irradiance
TESS: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
TFCat: Time-Frequency Catalog format
THEMIS: Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
TIMED: Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics
TIROS: Television Infrared Observation Satellite
TRACE: Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
TRL: Technology Readiness Level
TSI: Total Solar Irradiance
TSIS: Total Solar Irradiance Sensor
TWINS: Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral Atom Spectrometers
U
UARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UFA ESA: Ulysses Final Archive European Space Agency
UHF: Ultra-High Frequency
UIT: Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
ULA: United Launch Alliance
ULDB: Ultra Long Duration Balloon
UNISWI: United Nations International Space Weather Initiative
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
UV: Ultraviolet
V
VEPO: Virtual Energetic Particle Observatory
VISBARD: Visual System for Browsing, Analysis, and Retrieval of Data
VO: Virtual Observatory
VSO: Virtual Solar Observatory
VSWMC ESA: Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre European Space Agency
VWO: Virtual Wave Observatory
VxOs: Heliophysics virtual observatories
W
WCS: World Coordinate Systems
WDC-SI: World Data Center for Satellite Information
WFIRST: Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope
WISE: Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
X
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XMM: X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission
Definition Lists
Space Weather Glossary | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
List of lists of definitions: semantic_harmonization_SWMIvocabularies - Google Sheets
Other Terms/Links
AI readiness discussion across the Earth Sciences
AI readiness discussion in the context of space physics
AMDA Representational State Transfer (REST) web services
CDAS Python library
COSPAR International Space Weather Action Teams
CSA ESA: Cluster Science Archive European Space Agency
Dataset naming and file naming recommendations
Guidelines for Resource ID Formation
Intermagnet International Real-time Magnetic Observatory Network
ISTP Metadata Guidelines HPDE Data File Internal Metadata Guidelines
Naming Authority for both space-based and ground-based resources
NASA Heliophysics Science Data Management Policy Version 1.2