| LST | Land Surface Temperature |
| LSE | Land Surface Emissivity |
| TES | Temperature and Emissivity Separation |
| TRSM | the Two Step Retrieval method |
| TOA | Top of Atmosphere |
| 4A/OP | Operational release for Automatized Atmospheric Absorption Atlas |
| TIGR | Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval |
| NE∆T | Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference |
| IASI | the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| CrIS | the Cross-track Infrared Sounder |
| SEVIRI | the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| RMSE | the Root Mean Square Error |