APPENDIX A
GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS AND TERMS
| ADSI | Air Defense Space Interface |
| AFSATCOM | Air Force Satellite Communications |
| ARCENT | Army Central Command |
| ARSPACE | Army Space Command |
| CENTAF | Central Air Force |
| CENTCOM | Central Command |
| CINC | commander in chief |
| CINCUSAREUR | Commander in Chief, U. S. Army, Europe |
| COE | Chief of Engineers |
| Constant Source | developmental workstation |
| CRC | Control and Reporting Center |
| DCSOPS | Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations and Plans |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DSCS | Defense Satellite Communications System |
| DSP | Defense Support Program |
| EAC | echelons above corps |
| ERDAS | Earth
Resources Data Analysis System; commercial software used for image analysis, image enhancement, data merging and terrain visualization task |
| FAISS | FORSCOM Automated Intelligence Support System |
| FLTSAT | Fleet Satellite Communications System |
| FM | frequency modulation |
| FORSCOM | U. S. Forces Command |
| Geostationary orbit | An orbit that keeps a satellite positioned over one part of the world. Used for communications, weather, and other satellites that are required to ``stare'' at one part of the earth all the time. |
| GMF | ground mobile force |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite; the US geostationary satellite(s) that operates in the western hemisphere. |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| HQ | headquarters |
| Inmarsat | International Maritime Satellite (Low-capacity commercial satellite communications system) |
| INTELSAT | International Telecommunications Satellite (High-capacity commercial satellite communications system) |
| JCEOI | Communications-Electronics Operating Instructions |
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Landsat | US multispectral earth remote sensing satellite |
| LAUE | Lightweight Army User Equipment; future small precision GPS receiver |
| LRSU | Long-Range Surveillance Unit |
| Meteor | Soviet polar-orbiting weather satellite |
| METEOSAT | European geostationary weather satellite |
| MILSATCOM | Military Satellite Communications System |
| MLRS | Multiple Launch Rocket System |
| MSI | Multispectral Imagery |
| Multispectral imagery | Images
obtained simultaneously in a number of discrete imagery bands in the electromagnetic spectrum |
| M/V | manpack/vehicular; class of GPS receiver |
| NCA | National Command Authority |
| NCO | noncommissioned officer |
| PADS | Position/Azimuth Determining System |
| PC | personnel computer |
| PLGR | Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver |
| Polar Orbit | orbit that passes over the north and south poles. |
| POS/NAV | position/navigation |
| SATCOM | satellite communications |
| SCUD | Soviet-made tactical missile |
| SLGR | Small, Lightweight GPS Receiver |
| SOF | Special Operation Forces |
| Spatial resolution | measurement
of the smallest angular or linear separation between two objects that can be resolved by a sensor |
| Spectrum | range of electromagnetic wavelengths (e.g., visible, ultraviolet, X-rays) |
| SPOT | Satellite Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre (French satellite used for earth observation) |
| STU III | secure voice and data telephone |
| SUN | a type of desktop computer |
| SWO | Staff Weather Officer |
| Terrabase/MS Imager | software for manipulating MSI data; produced by the United States Military Academy Geography Laboratory |
| TERS | Tactical Event Reporting System |
| TIROS | Television Infrared Observation Satellite; US polar-orbiting weather satellite |
| TMD | Tactical Missile Defense |
| TO& | table(s) of organization and equipment |
| TRAP | Tactical Receive and Related Applications |
| TSS | Topographic Support System |
| USCINCSPACE | US Commander in Chief, Space Command |
| Weathertrac | commercial weather satellite software |
| Wraase | German manufacturer of satellite receiver |
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