ADCP                      Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling
ADEOS                    Advanced Earth Observing System
AGU                         American Geophysical Union (WASH./DC/USA)
ARGOS                    Data Collection and Platform Location System
AUV                         Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
AVHRR                    Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NOAA/USA)
CALCOFI                California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
CEES                       Center for Environment and Estuarine Studies
CODAR                   Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar
CoOP                       Cooperative Ocean Observation Program
DAS                          Data Acquisition System
DGPS                        Differential GPS
DMSP                       Defense Meteorological Satellite Program USA)
DOD                         Department of Defense
DOE                         Department of Energy
EOS                          Earth Observation Satellites
EOSDIS                    Earth Observing System Data and Information System
EPA                           Environmental Protection Agency
ERS-1                        ESA Remote Sensing Satellite-1
ESA                           European Space Agency
FLIP                          Floating Instrument Platform
GLOBEC                   Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics
GOES                        Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPS                           Global Positioning System
HRPT                         High Resolution Picture Transmission
JOI                             Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc. (USA)
LAC                           Local Area Coverage
LANDSAT                 Land Resources Satellite System (USA)
LIDAR                        Light Detection and Ranging
LMER                         Land Margins Ecosystems Research
LOICZ                        Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
MET                           Meteorology
MET-SPAR                Meteorological Spar Buoy
MMS                          Minerals Management Service
NADC  P3                  Naval Air Development Center
NASA                         National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA                      National Space Development Agency (Japan)
NCAR                         National Centre for Atmospheric Research (USA)
NDBC                         National Data-Buoy Centre (NOAA)
NOAA                        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODC                        National Oceanographic Data Centre (IOC/IODE)
NRL                            Naval Research Laboratory (USA)
NSCAT                       NASA Scatterometer (Satellite) (USA)
NSF                            National Science Foundation
OLS                            Oceanographic Lidar System
ONR                           Office of Naval Research
OSCR                         Ocean Surface Current Radar
RADARSAT                Radar Satellite (Canada)
ROV                            Remotely operated vehicle
RPV                             Remotely Piloted Vehicle
SAR                             Synthetic Aperture Radar
SEANET                      Ship/Shore Computer Communication Network
SEASOAR                   Remotely Operated Tethered Vehicle
SEAWIFS                    Sea-Viewing, Wide Field-of-View Sensor
SPOT                           Systeme pout l'Observation de la Terre (France)
SSM/1                          Special Sensor for Microwave Imaging
TOGA                          Tropical Oceans and the Global Atmosphere (of the WCRP)
TOGA/COARE            TOGA/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Response Experiment
TOPEX/POSEIDON    Ocean Topography Experimental Satellite Mission
UNOLS                        University National Observatory Laboratory System
USGS                           US Geological Survey
XBT                              Expendable Bathythermographs