ANN	Artificial Neural Network
ASTER	Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
AVHRR	Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer
AVIRIS	Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer
CALIOP	Cloud-Aerosol LiDAR with Orthogonal Polarization
CDA	Cumulative Discriminant Analysis
ERA-5	ECMWF Reanalysis 5th Generation
ESA	European Space Agency
ICDA	Independent Component Discriminant Analysis
KNN	k-Nearest Neighbor
LDA	Linear Discriminant Analysis
MERIS	MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MODIS	MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSG	Meteosat Second Generation
MSI	MultiSpectral Instrument
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NH	Northern Hemisphere
NIR	Near-InfraRed
PCDA	Principal Component Discriminant Analysis
PROBA-V	PRoject for On-Board Autonomy – Vegetation
QDA	Quadratic Discriminant Analysis
SEVIRI	Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
SH	Southern Hemisphere
SPOT	Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre
SWIR	Short-Wave InfraRed
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time