| ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager |
| ADF | Adaptive Decision Fusion |
| AHI | Advanced Himawari Imager |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer |
| BAT | Broad Area Training |
| BPNN | Back-Propagation Neural Network |
| BT | Brightness Temperature |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| DC | Deep Convolutional |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| DTC | Diurnal Temperature Cycles |
| ECEF | Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed |
| EO | Earth Observation |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| FCN | Fully Convolutional Network |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network |
| GEO | Geostationary Orbit |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| h-LDS | higher-order LDS |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Models |
| HOF | Histograms of Optical Flow |
| HOG | Histograms of Oriented Gradients |
| HoGP | Histograms of Grassmannian Points |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| IoMT | Internet of Multimedia Things |
| IR | InfraRed |
| LDS | Linear Dynamical Systems |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| LST | Land Surface Temperature |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| LWIR | Long Wavelength InfraRed |
| MetOp | Meteorological Operational |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MR | Mixed Reality |
| MSER | Maximally Stable Extremal Regions |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| MWIR | Middle Wavelength InfraRed |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NED | North-East-Down |
| NIR | Near-InfraRed |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPP | National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
| NRT | Near-Real-Time |
| OLI | Operational Land Imager |
| PISA | Pixelwise Image Saliency Aggregating |
| POES | Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite |
| R-CNN | Region-Based Convolutional Neural Networks |
| ReLU | Rectified Linear Unit |
| RST | Robust Satellite Techniques |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
| SFIDE | Satellite Fire Detection |
| sh-LDS | stabilized h-LDS |
| SLAM | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping |
| SroFs | Suspected Regions of Fire |
| SSO | Sun-Synchronous Orbit |
| STCM | Spatio–temporal Contextual Model |
| STM | Spatio–Temporal Model |
| SVD | Single Value Decomposition |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
| WoS | Web of Science |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |