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A&P
- Archive and Production
A/D
- Analog/Digital
AA
- Active Archive
AAC
- Archive Advisory Committee
AADP
- Active Archive Data Package
ABML
- As-Built Materials List
ABPL
- As-Built Parts List
ABS
- Absolute
AC
- Alternate Current or Archive Cache
ACCA
- Automated Cloud Cover Assessment or Actual Cloud Cover Average
ACL
- Access Control List
ACQ
- Acquired Scenes Report
ACRES
- Australian Center for Remote Sensing
ACS
- Attitude Control System
ACSLS
- Automated Cartridge System Library Software
ACU
- Antenna Control Unit
ACWP
- Actual Cost of Work Performed
AD
- Active Directory
ADA
- Angular Displacement Assembly or Attitude Displacement Assembly
ADC
- After DC Restore or Ancillary Data Corrector
ADD
- Algorithm Description Document
ADF
- Ancillary Data File
ADIC
- Advanced Digital Information Corporation
ADM
- Administrative Message
ADML
- As-Designed Materials List
ADPL
- As-Designed Parts List
ADS
- Attitude Displacement Sensors or Angular Displacement Sensor or Archive Data Stager
ADSA
- Attitude Displacement Sensor Assembly
ADVP
- Algorithm Development and Verification Plan
AEM
- Auxiliary Electronics Module
AES
- Advanced Encryption Standard
AFB
- United States Air Force Base
AFM
- Anomalous Frame Manager
AFWA
- Air Force Weather Agency
AGC
- Automatic Gain Control
AGE
- Automated Ground Equipment
AGS
- Alaska Ground Station
AIM
- Algorithm Integration Meeting
AIS
- Automated Information Security
ALI
- Advanced Land Imager
ALIAS
- Advanced Land Image Assessment System
AMP
- Allocation Management Planner
AN
- Ascending Node
ANSI
- American National Standards Institute
AO
- Authorization Official
AOI
- Area of Interest
AOS
- Acquisition of Signal or Arrival On-Site
API
- Application Programming Interface
APID
- Application Identification
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
ASHRAE
- American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
ASIC
- Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASN
- Alice Springs Ground Station
ASQC
- American Society for Quality Control
AST
- Active Scan Time
ASTER
- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection
ASTM
- American Society for Testing of Materials
AT-ACCA
- Artificial Thermal Automated Cloud Cover Assessment
ATBD
- Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
ATCS
- Absolute Time Command Sequence
ATL
- Automated Tape Library
ATM
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATS
- Absolute Time Sequence
AUI
- Analyst User Interface
AVT
- Algorithm Verification Test
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