Glossary
AIRS: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
CALIPSO: Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
Collada: the COLLAborative Design Activity
DISC: Data and Information Service Center
EOS: Earth Observation System
G2: Giovanni Version 2
G3: Giovanni Version 3
GES: Goddard Earth Science
GES DISC: Goddard Earth Science Data and Information Service Center
Giovanni: GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure
GrADS: Grid Analysis and Display System
HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
KML: Keyhole Markup Language
KMZ: KML Zipped file
MODIS: MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectraradiometer
OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
OPeNDAP: Open-source Project for for a Network Data Access Protocol
TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measurements Mission
WMS: Web Map Service
WCS: Web Coverage Service
WFS: Web Feature Service