Acronyms

• AC - Alternating Current
• ACLAIM - Airborne Coherent Lidar for Advanced In-flight
  Measurements
• AEOLUS - Autonomous Earth Orbiting Lidar Utility Sensor
• AF - Air Force
• AO - Announcement of Opportunity
• BPLO - Back-Propagated Local Oscillator
• CAO - Center for Applied Optics (UAH)
• CAT - Clear Air Turbulence
• CDWL - Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar
• CLR - Coherent Laser Radar
• CTI - Coherent Technologies, Incorporated
• CW - Continuous Wave
• DC - Direct Current
• DCF - Detector Characterization Facility
• DIAL - DIfferential Absorption Lidar
• DOD - Department Of Defense
• DOE - Diffractive Optical Element
• DWL - Doppler Wind Lidar
• EO-2 - Second Earth Observing Mission (NMP)
• EOS - Earth Observing System
• GHCC - Global Hydrology and Climate Center
• GLOBE - GLObal Backscatter Experiment
• HQE - Heterodyne Quantum Efficiency
• IF - Intermediate Frequency
• IPO - Integrated Program Office (DOD/DOC/NASA)
• IQ - In-Phase & Quadrature
• JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• LADAR - LAser Detection And Ranging
• LaRC - Langley Research Center
• LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• LAWS - Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder
• LCF - Laser Characterization Facility
• LIDAR - LIght Detection And Ranging (Laser Radar = Optical Radar)
• LITE - Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• LO - Local Oscillator
• LOS - Line Of Sight
• MACAWS - Multi-center Airborne Coherent Atmospheric Wind Sensor
• MSFC - Marshall Space Flight Center
• MTPE - Mission To Planet Earth
• NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NLR - Noncoherent Laser Radar
• NMP - New Millennium Program
• NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency
• NPOESS - National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental
  Satellite System
• OSAT - Office of Space Access and Technology
• PADL - Precision Air Drop Lidar
• RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging
• RT - Round Trip
• SAGE - Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
• SAM - Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• SCALE - Shuttle Coherent Atmospheric Lidar Experiment
• SNL - Shot Noise Limited
• SNR - Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• SPARCLE - SPAce Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment
• STP - Space Test Program
• UAH - University of Alabama in Hunstville
• VAD - Velocity Azimuth Display

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