Throughout this course you will come across acronyms, abbreviations, names of instruments and satellites and technical terms which you may not be familiar with. The glossaries below will give you a quick reference for these terms:

EO terminology:

NASA Earth Observatory glossary

In addition the following website provides an overview of the main international programmes and agencies involved in funding satellite Earth observation.

EUMETSAT international agencies

You can also download a PDF version of the EUMETSAT acronyms and abbreviations glossary from the ‘Downloads’ section below, as well as a table listing all of the EO satellite missions mentioned throughout this course.

Now, let’s make a start with the first topic of the course, on the next step.

Downloads