| Acronym | Definition |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| Amax | Major range |
| Amin | Minor range |
| C0 | Nugget |
| C0 + C | Sill |
| CB | Chesapeake Bay |
| C-MAN | Coastal-Marine Automated Network |
| CRE | Caloosahatchee River Estuary |
| CV | Coefficient of variation |
| E | Emissivity |
| ECOSTRESS | ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station |
| FB | Florida Bay |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| JEM-EF | Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility |
| LO | Lake Okeechobee |
| LPDAAC | Land Process Distribution Active Archive Center |
| LST&E | Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MSU | Mass storage unit |
| NDBC | National Data Buoy Center |
| NEΔT | Noise equivalent delta temperatures |
| QC | Quality control |
| R2 | Coefficient of determination |
| RMSD | Root mean square difference |
| RSS | Residual Sum of Squares |
| SCCF RECON | Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation River, Estuary, and Coastal Observing Network |
| SFWMD | South Florida Water Management District |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| STDs | Standard deviations |
| TDs | Temperature differences |
| TES | Temperature Emission Separation |
| TIRS | Thermal Infrared Sensor |
| VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |