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A&P - Archive and Production

A/D - Analog/Digital

AA - Active Archive

AADP - Active Archive Data Package

ABS - Absolute

ACCA - Automated Cloud Cover Assessment

ACQ - Acquired Scenes Report

ACRES - Australian Center for Remote Sensing

ACS - Attitude Control System

ADA - Angular Displacement Assembly or Attitude Displacement Assembly

ADC - After DC Restore

ADIC - Advanced Digital Information Corporation

ADM - Administrative Message

ADS - Attitude Displacement Sensors and Archive Data Stager

ADSA - Attitude Displacement Sensor Assembly

AEM - Auxiliary Electronics Module

AFWA - Air Force Weather Agency

AGC - Automatic Gain Control

AGE - Automated Ground Equipment

AGS - Alaska Ground Station

AIS - Automated Information Security

ALI - Advanced Land Imager

AN - Ascending Node

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

AOS - Acquisition of Signal

API - Application Programming Interface

AQPSK - Asynchronous Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

AR - Archive or Axial Ratio

AS - Archive Server

ASA - Archive Server Application or Alice Springs [Station] Australia

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASGUI - Archive Server Graphical User Interface

ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASN - Alice Springs Ground Station

AST - Active Scan Time

ASTER - Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection

ATBD - Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

ATCS - Absolute Time Command Sequence

ATL - Automated Tape Library

AUI - Analyst User Interface



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