| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
| CA | clear aperture |
| CMTC | CoaST Maritime Test Centre |
| CWL | center wavelength |
| ECHA | European Chemicals Agency |
| EMCCD | electron multiplying charge-coupled device |
| FCC | fouling control coating |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FNR | false negative rate |
| FOV | field of view |
| FWHM | full-width at half-maximum |
| HSI | hyperspectral imaging |
| LCTF | liquid crystal tunable filter |
| LED | light-emitting diode |
| NA | numerical aperture |
| NIS | non-indigenous species |
| NSTM | naval ships’ technical manual |
| PC | principal component |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PPV | positive predictive value |
| ROI | region of interest |
| SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |
| SVM | support vector machine |
| TPR | true positive rate |
| WNN | wide neural network |