| APAR |
Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS |
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| BRDF |
Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| BRF |
Bidirectional Reflectance Factor |
| BATS |
Biosphere Atmosphere Transfer Scheme |
| DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Center |
| EDC |
EROS Data Center |
| EROS |
Earth Resource Observation Satellite |
| FASIR |
Fourier-adjusted, solar zenith angle corrected,
interpolation and reconstruction |
| FIFE |
First ISLSCP Field Experiment |
| GCM |
General Circulation Model |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| HTF |
Humid Tropical Forest |
| ISLSCP |
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
Project |
| LAD |
Leaf Angle Distribution |
| LAI |
Leaf Area Index |
| Landsat |
Land Remote Sensing Satellite |
| Lidar |
Light Detection and Ranging |
| MODIS |
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MSS |
Multi-Spectral Scanner |
| NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NIR |
Near Infrared |
| PAR |
Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
| SAIL |
Scattering by Arbitrarily Inclined Leaves |
| SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SiB |
Simple Biosphere model |
| SPOT |
System Pour l'Observation de la Terre |
| TM |
Thematic Mapper |
