Acronym | Definition |
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ABS | Scaled Absolute Values |
ASCAT | Advanced Scatterometer |
AMI-WS | Active Microwave Instrument - Windscat (ERS-1 & 2) |
AMSR2 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 |
AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System |
ASCAT | Advanced Scatterometer (Metop) |
ATBD | Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
BfG | The German Federal Institute of Hydrology |
C3S | Copernicus Climate Change Service |
CCI | Climate Change Initiative |
CDF | Cumulative Distribution Function |
CDR | Climate Data Record |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
CF | Climate Forecast |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting |
ECV | Essential Climate Variable |
EO | Earth Observation |
EODC | Earth Observation Data Centre |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ERA5 | ECMWF Reanalysis 5th Generation |
ERA5T | ERA5 (extended forward in time) |
ERS | European Remote Sensing satellite |
EUMETSAT | European Meteorological Satellite |
FK | Fligner-Killeen |
FRM | Fiducial Reference Measurement |
FRM4SM | Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture |
FY | Feng-Yun |
GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
GEO | Group on Earth Observations |
GLDAS | Global Land Data Assimilation System |
GPCP | Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
GPI | Grid Point Index |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement |
GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
GHRSST | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
H SAF | EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management |
IAA | Interannual Anomaly |
ICDR | Interim Climate Data Record |
ISMN | International Soil Moisture Network |
IQR | Interquartile Range |
KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
L2 | Retrieved environmental variables at the same resolution and location as the level 1 (EO) source. |
L3 | Level 3 |
LPRM | Land Parameter Retrieval Model |
LPV | Land Product Validation |
LSM | Land Surface Model |
MetOp | Meteorologivcal Operational Satellites |
MIRAS | Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis |
NDVI | Normalised Differenced Vegetation Index |
NetCDF | Network Common Data Format |
NRT | Near Real Time |
PQAD | Product Quality Assurance Document |
PQAR | Product Quality Assessment Report |
PUG | Product User Guide |
PVIR | Product Validation and Inter-comparison Report |
PVP | Product Validation Plan |
QA | Quality Assurance |
QA4SM | Quality Assurance for Soil Moisture |
QA4EO | Quality Assurance framework for Earth Observation |
RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
SM | Soil Moisture |
SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
SMAP | Soil Moisture Active Passive |
SMOS | Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity |
SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
SQAD | System Quality Assurance Document |
SSM | Surface Soil Moisture |
SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
SSP | Sensor Sampling Period |
STA | Short Term Anomaly |
SWI | Soil Water Index |
TCA | Triple Collocation Analysis |
TCDR | Thematic Climate Data Record |
TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager |
TRGAD | Target Requirements and Gap Analysis Document |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
TU Wien | Vienna University of Technology |
ubRMSD | unbiased Root Mean Square Difference |
UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
VOD | Vegetation Optical Depth |
WGS | World Geodetic System |
WK | Wilkoxon Rank-Test |