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ADAGUC

Atmospheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community.

ADPS

ADAGUC Data Products Standard.

AMSR

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer.

API

Application Programming Interface.

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

BIL

Band Interleaved by Line.

BIP

Band Interleaved by Pixel.

BSQ

Band SeQuential.

CF

Climate and Forecast.

EDR

Environmental Data Retrieval

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

EOS

Earth Observing System.

ESA

European Space Agency.

FRESCO

Fast Retrieval Scheme for Cloud Observables.

GALEON

Geo-interface to Atmosphere, Land, Earth, Ocean, NetCDF.

GDAL

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library.

GIS

Geographical Information System.

GOME

Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment.

GRD

ESRI Grid format.

GRIB

GRIdded Binary.

HDF

Hierarchical Data Format.

IMAA

for Environmental Analysis.

IMAU

Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (Utrecht University).

INSPIRE

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community.

ISO

International Organization for Standardization.

IUP

Institute of Environmental Physics.

JPG

Joint Photographic Experts Group Interchange Format.

KML

Keyhole Markup Language.

KNMI

Royal Nederlands Meteorological Institute.

LatLon

Latitude, Longitude.

LPRM

Land Parameter Retrieval Model.

MERIS

Medium-spectral Resolution Imaging Spectrometer.

NCAR

for Atmospheric Research, Boulder CO.

NetCDF

Network Common Data Form.

NRT

Near Real Time.

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium.

OMI

Ozone Monitoring Instrument.

PNG

Portable Network Graphics.

QoS

Quality of Service.

RD

Rijksdriehoeksmeting (Dutch Grid).

RGI

Ruimte voor Geo-Informatie.

RIVM

Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu.

RT

Real Time.

SCIAMACHY

Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY.

SHP

ESRI Shapefile.

SSD

Software Specification Document.

SRON

SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research.

TBD

To Be Determined.

TBW

To Be Written.

THRDS

Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services.

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format.

UCAR

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

UMN

University of Minnesota.

URD

User Requirements Document.

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time.

UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator.

UUID

Universally Unique Identifier.

VU-FALW

Vrije Universiteit , Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences.

WCS

Web Coverage Service.

WFS

Web Feature Service.

WMO

World Meteorological Organization.

WMS

Web Map Service.

WUR

Wageningen University and Research Centre.

XML

eXtensible Markup Language.