4 Final Report - Emits - ESA
4 Final Report - Emits - ESA
4 Final Report - Emits - ESA
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A <strong>Final</strong><br />
<strong>Report</strong><br />
ICU Instrument Control Unit<br />
IEEE Institute of Electrical and<br />
Electronics Engineers<br />
IG Implementation Group<br />
IGSO Inclined Geosynchronous Orbit<br />
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit<br />
INR Image Navigation and<br />
Registration<br />
IP Integrated Project (European<br />
Commission)<br />
IR Infrared<br />
ITAR International Traffic in Arms<br />
Regulations<br />
ITD Infoterra Deutschland<br />
ITT Invitation to Tender<br />
ITU International<br />
Telecommunications Union<br />
LAI Leaf Area Index<br />
LC Land Cover<br />
LEO Low Earth Orbit<br />
LEOP Lauch and Early Operations<br />
LHCP Left Handed Circulary<br />
Polarized<br />
LMCS Land Monitoring Core Service<br />
LNA Low Noise Amplifier<br />
LOS Line of Sight<br />
LR Low resolution<br />
LST Local Satellite Time<br />
LUSI Land Use and Spatial<br />
Information (European Topic<br />
Centre)<br />
LWIR Long Wave Infrared<br />
MARS Monitoring of Agriculture by<br />
Remote Sensing<br />
MCT Mercury Cadmium Telluride<br />
MIR Medium Infrared<br />
MLI Multi Layer Insulation<br />
MMU Minimum mapping unit<br />
MOU Memorandum of<br />
MPPT<br />
Understanding<br />
Maximum Power Point Tracker<br />
MR Medium resolution<br />
MS Member State of the European<br />
Union<br />
MSG Meteosat Second Generation<br />
MTF Transfer Function<br />
MTG Meteosat Third Generation<br />
MTR Mid Term Review<br />
MWIR Medium Wave Infrared<br />
NDVI Normalised Differential<br />
Vegetation Index<br />
NEDL Noise Equivalent Delta<br />
NIR Near Infrared<br />
NRC National Reference Centre<br />
NRT Near Real Time<br />
NSSK North South Station Keeping<br />
OBC Onboard Computer<br />
OC Ocean Colour<br />
OCM Orbit Control Manoeuvre<br />
OD Orbit Determination<br />
OQPSK Offset Quaternary Phase Shift<br />
Keying<br />
OSPAR The 1992 OSPAR Convention;<br />
the current instrument guiding<br />
international cooperation on<br />
the protection of the marine<br />
environment of the North-East<br />
Atlantic<br />
PB Programme Board<br />
PCM Pulse Code Mode<br />
PDGS Payload Data Ground<br />
Segment<br />
PDH Payload Data Handling<br />
PDHT Payload Data Handling and<br />
Transmission<br />
PDT Payload Data Transmission<br />
PF Platform<br />
PFD Power Flux Density<br />
Doc. No: GOC-ASG-RP-002 Page A-3<br />
Issue: 2<br />
Date: 13.05.2009 Astrium GmbH
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