| Acronyms associated with Advanced MSI/HSI Technology Short Course |
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| AAHIS | Advanced Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging system |
| AC | Atmospheric Corrector |
| ACIS | Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer(X-ray) |
| AES | Atmospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| AFRL | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| AGL | Above Ground Level |
| AHI | Airborne Hyperspectral Imager |
| AIS | Airborne Imaging Spectrometer |
| ALI | Advanced Land Imager |
| ARIES | Australian Resource Information and Environment Satellite | |
| ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program |
| ASAS | Advanced Solid-state Array Spectroradiometer | |
| ASPIS | Adaptive Spectral Processing and Identification System | |
| ASRP | Adaptive Spectral Reconnaissance Program |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| ATLAS | Airborne Terrestrial Land Applications Scanner |
| ATR | Automated (or Aided) Target Recognition |
| ATREM | Atmospheric Removal |
| AVIRIS | Advanced Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer |
| AVNIR | Airborne Visible and Near IR sensor |
| BA | Budget Activity |
| BRDF | Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| CASI | Compact Airborne Spectral Imager |
| CB | Cobra Brass |
| CBW | Chemical Biological Warfare |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device |
| CCD | also CC&D Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception |
| CECOM | (Army) Communications-Electronics Command |
| CFAR | Constant False Alarm Rate |
| CINC | Commander In Chief |
| CMO | Central MASINT Office |
| COIS | Coastal Ocean Imaging Spectrometer |
| COSMEC | Common Spectral MASINT Exploitation Capability |
| CW | Chemical Weapon |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
| DAIS | Digital Airborne Imaging Spectrometer |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DDR&E | Director,Defense Research & Engineering |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| DEM/VAL | Demonstration / Validation |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DMIF | Dynamic Multi-user Information Fusion |
| DN | Digital Numbers |
| DSB | Defense Science Board |
| DTAP | Defense Technology Area Plan |
| DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data |
| DTO | Defense Technology Objective | |
| EOCAP | Earth Observing Commercial Applications |
| EOS | Earth Observation System |
| FAR | False Alarm Rate |
| FPA | Focal Plane Array |
| FTHSI | Fourier Transform Hyperspectral Imager |
| FTS | Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| FYDP | Future Year Defense Program |
| GIFOV | Ground Instantaneous Field Of View |
| GIS | Geographical Information System |
| GSD | Ground Sample Distance |
| HgCdTe | Mercury, Cadmium, Telluride (MCT, LWIR, MWIR, SWIR FPA) |
| HIRIS | Hyperspectral InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer |
| HIRIS | High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| HITRAN | High-resolution Transmission |
| HRST | Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Technology |
| HSI | Hyperspectral Imaging |
| HYDICE | Hyperspectral Digital Imagery Collection Experiment |
| HYMSMO | Hyperspectral MASINT Support to Military Operations |
| HYSTAR | Hyperspectral/Imaging for Surveillance and Targeting |
| ID | Identification |
| IEW&S | Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, & Sensors |
| IFOV | Instantaneous Field Of View |
| IFTS | Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| IMINT | Imagery Intelligence |
| IMS | Intelligent Missile Seeker |
| InGaAs | Indium, Gallium, Arsenide (SWIR FPA) |
| InSb | Indium Antimonide (MWIR, SWIR FPA) |
| ISAC | Inscene Atmospheric Compensation |
| ISR | Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance |
| JEFX | Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment |
| LAMD | Lightweight Airborne Minefield Detection System |
| LandSat | Land Resources Satellite |
| Lowtran | Low-resolution atmospheric Transmission |
| LWIR | Longwave InfraRed |
| MAS | MODIS Airborne Simulator | |
| MASINT | Measurements and Signature Intelligence |
| MCM | Mine Countermeasure |
| MCT | Mercury, Cadmium, Telluride |
| MDA | Missile Defense Agency |
| MEMS | Micro Electro Manufacturing |
| MISR | Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MIVIS | Multispectral Infrared and Visible Imaging Spectrometer |
| MODIS | Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| Modtran | Moderate-resolution Atmospheric Transmission |
| MOPTITT | Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere |
| MPR | Monocular Passive Ranging |
| MSI | Multispectral Imaging |
| MSS | Multispectral Scanner |
| MTI | Multispectral Thermal Imager |
| MTI | Moving Target Indicator |
| MURI | Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative |
| MWIR | Midwave InfraRed |
| NAIC | National Air Intelligence Center |
| NEMO | Naval Earth Map Observer |
| NESR | Noise Equivalent Spectral Radiance |
| NIIRS | National Imagery Interpretability Rating Scale |
| NIMA | National Imagery and Mapping Agency |
| NIMS | Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer | |
| NIR | Near IR |
| NN20 | Nuclear Nonproliferation. Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering (DoE) |
| NPOESS | National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
| NPS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| NRL | Naval research Laboratory |
| NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
| NVESD | Night Vision Electronic Sensors Directorate |
| NVIS | Night Vision Imaging Spectrometer |
| OKSI | Opto-Knowlede Systems, Inc. |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| ODDR&E | Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering
| ORASIS | Optical Real-Time Adaptive Spectral Identification System |
| PbS | Lead Sulfide (SWIR FPA) |
| PbSe | Lead Selenide (SWIR/MWIR FPA) |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PCT | Principal Component Transformation |
| PD | Probability of Detection |
| PE | Program Element |
| PHILLS | Portable Hyperspectral Imager for Low Light Spectroscopy |
| PtSi | Platinum Silicide (LWIR FPA) |
| RDDS | Research & Development Descriptive Summaries | |
| RDT&E | Research, Development, Test and Evaluation |
| RISTA | Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, & Target Acquisition |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristics |
| ROIC | Read Out Integrated Circuit |
| S&T | Science and Technology |
| SAM | Spectral Angle Mapper |
| SAMRSS | Shafter Airborne MultiSpectral Sensor |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SBIRS | Space Based Infrared System |
| SeaWiFS | Sea-Viewing-Wide-Field-of-View Sensor |
| SEBASS | Spatially Enhanced Broadband Array Spectrograph System |
| SERDP | Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program |
| SHARP | SEBASS High Altitude Research Project |
| Si | Silicon (VNIR FPA) |
| Si:As | Arsenic doped Silicon, extrinsic Silicon (LWIR FPA) |
| SISEX | Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment |
| SITAC | Spectral Information Technology Application Center |
| SMDC | Space & Missile Defense Command |
| SMF | Spectral Match Filter |
| SMIFTS | Spatially Modulated Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer | |
| SMO | Support for Military Operations |
| SPOT | Systeme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terra |
| STDC | Space Technology Development Corporation |
| SWIR | Short Wave InfraRed |
| T/ES | Temperature Emissivity Separation |
| TEC | [Army] Topographic Engineering Center |
| TENCAP | Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities |
| TERCAT | Terrain Categorization |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| TES | Thermal Emission Spectrometer | |
| TIMS | Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| TIR | Thermal IR |
| TIRIS | Thermal IR Imaging Spectrometer |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| TPED | Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination |
| TRIPS | Tactical Real-time Image Processing Spectrograph |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| USI | Ultraspectral Imaging |
| USG | US Government |
| UXO | Unexploded Ordnance |
| VIMS | Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer | |
| VNIR | Visible and Near InfraRed |
| WF | War Fighter |
| WIS | Wedge Imaging Spectrometer | |
| WMD | Weapon of Mass Destruction |
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