| AOT | Aerosol Optical Thickness |
| BOA | Bottom-Of-Atmosphere |
| BRDF | Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| CDOM | Colored Dissolved Organic Matter |
| CP | Control Points |
| CMOS | Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor |
| DC | Dark Current |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform |
| DM | Detector Map |
| DN | Digital Number |
| DDV | Dark Dense Vegetation |
| DESIS | DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer |
| DLR | German Aerospace Center |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| DSM | Digital Surface Model |
| EnMAP | Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program |
| ES | Edge Slope |
| GCP | Ground Control Points |
| GSD | Ground Sampling Distance |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| MTF | Modular Transfer Function |
| MUSES | Multi-User-System for Earth Sensing |
| NIR | Near Infrared |
| PICS | CEOS Pseudo-Invariant Calibration Sites |
| RCN | RadCalNet |
| ROI | Region Of Interest |
| SA | Spectral Angle |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SRF | Spectral Response Function |
| SRTM | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
| TBE | Teledyne Brown Engineering |
| TOA | Top-Of-Atmosphere |
| TSM | Total Suspended Matter |
| VNIR | Visible Near Infrared |
| WV | Water Vapor |