| TERM | DEFINITION | TERM | DEFINITION |
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ARD: |
Analysis-Ready-Data |
IPF: |
Instrument Processing Facility |
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ASCAT: |
Advanced Scatterometer |
IW: |
Interferometric Wide-swath |
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CEMS: |
Copernicus Emergency Management Service (a service of Copernicus, theEO component of the EU's space programme) |
JRC: |
Joint Research Centre of the EC
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CSCDA: |
Copernicus Space Component Data Access |
NRT: |
Near real-timeNear real-time
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dB: |
Decibel |
OS: |
Operating system |
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DEM: |
Digital Elevation Model |
OSV: |
Orbit StateVector |
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DSM: |
Digital Surface Model |
PDF: |
Probability Density Function |
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EC: |
European Commission |
PLIA: |
Projected Local Incidence Angle |
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EO: |
Earth observation |
POEORB: |
Precise Orbit Ephemerides files |
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ESA: |
European Space AgencyEuropean SpaceAgency |
Polarisation: |
Orientation of theplane in whichthe SAR signal oscillates, in either the transmit or receive paths. |
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GDAL: |
Geospatial DataAbstraction Library |
RESORB |
Restituted OrbitEphemerides files |
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GFC: |
Global ForestChange |
S1-GBM: |
Sentinel-1 GlobalBackscatter Model |
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GFM: |
Global FloodMonitoring of CEMS |
SAR: |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
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GHSL: |
Global Human Settlement Layer of Copernicus Emergency mangament Service |
SNAP: |
Sentinel Applications Platform (ESA’s common architecture for processing and analysing data from many EO missions) |
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GPT: |
Graph Processing Tool |
SRTM: |
Shuttle RadarTopography Mission |
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GRDH: |
Ground RangeDetected, High resolution |
SSE: |
Sum of Squared Estimate of Errors |
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HAND: |
Height AboveNearest Drainage (a DEM normalized using nearest drainage) |
WBM: |
Water Body Mask (an auxiliary information mask generated during the Copernicus DEM production process) |
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HAND-EM: |
HAND-based Exclusion Mask |
WSF2015: |
World Settlement Footprint 2015 |
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HRL: |
High-Resolution Layer |
Zstd: |
Zstandard (a lossless data compression algorithm). |