One of the most challenging things about reading this text is the incredible number of acronyms used. I created the following glossary of acronyms to enable me to make sense of what I read in chapter two.
Glossary of Acronyms
- ALS - Airborne Laser Scanning
- AM - Amplitude modulation
- AOBD - Acousto-optic beam deflector
- AOL - Airborne Oceanic Lidar
- AOI - Angle of incidence
- APD - Avalanche photodiode
- ARD - Automatic rendezvous and docking
- ARV - Autonomous robotic vision
- ASC - Advanced Scientific Concepts (company)
- ASPRS - American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- ATM - Airborne Topographic Mapper
- ATR - Automatic target recognition
- BATC - Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation
- CCD - Charge-coupled device
- CIR - Color-infrared
- CMOS - Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
- COTS - Commercial off-the-shelf
- CW - Continuous wave
- DEM - Digital elevation model
- DESDynI - Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice
- DHS SBIR - Department of Homeland Security Small Business Innovation Research program
- DSM - Digital surface model
- DSP - Digital signal processing
- DTM - Digital terrain model
- EDME - Electronic Distance Measuring Equipment
- ESFL - Electronically Steerable Flash Lidar
- FDC - Frequency-to-distance conversion
- FFPA - Flash-focal-plane-array
- FM - Frequency modulation
- FOR - Field of regard
- FOV - Field of view
- FPGA - Field programmable gate array
- FW - Full waveform
- FWHM - Full width half maximum
- GmAPD - Geiger Mode Avalanche Photodiode
- GPS - Global positing system
- HLDA - Autonomous hazard detection and avoidance
- ICP - Iterative closest point
- IFOV - Instantaneous field of view
- IIP - Instrument Incubator Program
- IMU - Inertial measurement unit
- InGaAs - Indium-gallium-arsenide
- INS - Inertial navigation system
- ISD - Integrated scanner, detector
- ISDT - Integrated scanner, detector, telescope
- ISR - Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- ISS - International space station
- LAPF - Laser Altimeter Processing Facility
- LAS - Laser (file format) developed by ASPRS
- LA-WASM - large-aperture wide-angle scanning mirror
- LIF - Laser induced florescence
- LINS - Laser Inertial Measurement system
- LRF - Laser range finder
- LVIS - Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor
- MASER - Microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
- MIR - Mid range infrared
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NAVOCEANO - Naval Oceanographic Office
- NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- OMCMFNC - Organic Mine Countermeasures Future Naval Capabilities
- PRF - Pulse repetition frequency
- PROXOPS - Proximity operations
- PRR - Pulse repetition rate
- RAMS - Real-time Aerial Mapping System
- RASCAL - RAster SCanning Airborne Laser Altimeter
- RF - Radio frequency
- RGB - Red-green-blue
- ROAR - Rapid Overt Airborne Reconnaissance
- ROIC - Readout integrated circuit
- RVS - Raytheon Vision Systems (company)
- SLICER - Scanning Lidar Imager of Canopies by Echo Recovery
- SNR - Signal-to-noise ratio
- SWaP - Size, weight, and power
- SWIR - Short wave infrared
- TMFL - Topographic mapping flash lidar
- TOF - Time-of-flight
- TRN - Terrain-relative navigation
- UAV - Unmanned aerial vehicles
- UPS - Uninterruptabke Power Supply
- UV - Ultraviolet
- VIS/IR - Visible / infrared
- VTUAV - Vertical takeoff unmanned aerial vehicle
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