NAVOCEANO: The Naval Oceanographic Office
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration；アメリカ海洋大気庁
NOAA/NOS: NOAA/National Ocean service
NOAA/NESDIS: NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
NRA: NASA radar altimeter
NSCAT: NASA Scatterometer；NASA散乱計
OCTS: Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner；海色海温走査放射計
POLDER: Polarization and Directionality of Earth's Reflectances；地表反射光観測装置
Poseidon: ギリシア神話の海神
QuikSCAT: Quick Scatterometer
RA: Radar Altimeter；レーダ高度計
RA-2: Radar Altimeter 2
RADARSAT: Advanced Earth observation satellite system developed by Canada
RIS: Retroreflecter in Space；地上･衛星間レーザ長光路吸収測定用リトロリフレクタ
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar；合成開口レーダー
SASS: Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer
SEASAT: Sea Satellite
SeaWinDS: Scatterometer on QuikScat and ADEOS-II satellite
SSALT: Solid state radar altimeter
SSM/I: Special Scanning Microwave Imager
TMR: TOPEX microwave radiometer
TOGA: Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere program；熱帯海洋地球大気計画
TOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer；オゾン全量分光計
TOPEX: Ocean Topography Experiment
TOPEX/Poseidon: TOPEX/Poseidon Satellite
TOPEX-NRA: TOPEX-NASA radar altimeter
TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter MGDR: TOPEX/Poseidon Merged Geophysical Data Record
WCRP: World Climate Research Program；国際気候共同研究計画
WND: Wind Scatterometer
WNF: Wind Field products generated from AMI Scatterometer
