1 Abbreviations
AFC | ESA Administrative and Finance Committee |
AIS | Automatic Identification System |
ALOMAR | Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmospheric Research |
ARR | Andøya Rocket Range |
ATC | Andøya Test Center AS |
CERN | European Organisation for Nuclear Research |
Copernicus | EU earth observation programme, previously (until 2012) called GMES |
COSPAS-SARSAT | International search-and-rescue satellite system |
EASP | Esrange Andøya Special Project |
EDA | European Defence Agency |
EGNOS | European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service |
EISCAT | European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association |
ELDO | European Launcher Development Organisation |
ENVISAT | Environmental satellite |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESRO | European Space Research Organisation (forerunner of ESA) |
EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
FFI (Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt) | Norwegian Defence Research Establishment |
GEO | Group on Earth Observations |
GEO FCT | Group on Earth Observations Forest Carbon Tracking |
GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
GFOI | Global Forest Initiative |
GLONASS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GMES | Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GOCE | Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GSA | European GNSS Agency |
GSTP | ESA General Support and Technical Programme |
IMO | International Maritime Organisation |
INMARSAT | International Maritime Satellite Organisation |
INTELSAT | International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation |
IPC | ESA Industrial Policy Committee |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IRC | ESA International Relations Committee |
ISS | International Space Station |
ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
ITS | Intelligent transport systems and services |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
KSAT | Kongsberg Satellite Services |
NAROM (Nasjonalt senter for romrelatert undervisning) | Norwegian Centre for Space-Related Education |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NNI | Net national income |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NSC | Norwegian Space Centre |
NSCP | Norwegian Space Centre Properties |
PRS | Public Regulated Service, Galileo |
PwC | PricewaterhouseCoopers |
R & D | Research and development |
SAR | Search and rescue |
SCAT-1 | Special Category 1 |
SPC | ESA Science Programme Committee |
SvalSat | Svalbard Satellite Station |
TRANSIT | US satellite navigation system in 1960s |
TSS | Tromsø Satellite Station |
UNCOPUOS | United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
UNITAR | United Nations Institute for Training and Research |
UNOSAT | UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme |