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Latest revision as of 15:09, 15 March 2012
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| A/S | Anti-Spoofing |
| AAIM | Airborne Autonomous Integrity Monitoring |
| ABAS | Aircraft Based Augmentation Systems |
| ACAC | Arab Civil Aviation Commission |
| ACF | Auto-Correlation Function |
| ADAS | Advanced Driving Assistance Systems |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| ADS-B | Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast |
| AEP | Architecture Evolution Plan |
| AF | U.S. Air Force |
| AFCAC | African Civil Aviation Commission |
| AFI | Africa-Indian Ocean |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| AHRS | Attitude and Heading Reference Systems |
| AIS | Automatic Identification System |
| AIV | Assembly |
| AL | Alert Limit |
| AltBOC | Alternative BOC |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| AMCS | Alternate Master Control Station |
| ANSP | Air Navigation Service Provider |
| ANTEX | ANtenna EXchange format |
| AOA | Airport Operators Association |
| AOA | Angle Of Arrival |
| AOAD/M | T Allen Osborne Associates Dorne Margolin Model T |
| AOC | Advanced Operational Capability |
| AOCS | Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem |
| AOR | Atlantic Ocean Region |
| AP | Access Point |
| AP | Application Protocol |
| APC | Antenna Phase Centre |
| APEC | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| APIRG | AFI Planning and Implementation Regional Group |
| APPS | Automatic Precise Positioning Service |
| APV | Approach oPerations with Vertical guidance |
| APVI | Approach oPerations with Vertical guidance I |
| APVII | Approach oPerations with Vertical guidance II |
| AR | Axial Ratio |
| ARAIM | Advanced RAIM |
| ARNS | Aeronautical Radio Navigation Service |
| ARP | Antenna Reference Point |
| ARPA | Automatic Radar Plotting Aids |
| AS | Anti-Spoofing |
| ASBC | Advanced Space Business Corporation |
| ASECNA | from french: Agence pour la Securite de la Navigation Aerienne en Afrique et |
| ASICs | Applications Secific Integrated Circuit |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation 1 |
| ASQF | Application Specific Qualification Facility |
| ASZ | Autocorrelation Side-lobe Zero |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine |
| ATM | Air Traffic Management |
| ATV | Automated Transfer Vehicle |
| AUC | African Union Commission |
| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| AWOP | All Weather Operations Panel |
| BC | Before Christ |
| BCS | Binary Coded Symbols |
| BDT | BeiDou Time |
| BI | Behavioral Interventions |
| BIE | Bureau International de l'Heure |
| BIH | From French: Bureau International de l'Heure |
| BIPM | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures |
| BLUE | Best Linear Unbiased Minimum-Variance Estimator |
| BM | Benchmark |
| BMCS | Backup Master Control Station |
| BOC | Binary Offset Carrier |
| BPSK | Binary Shift Phase Keying |
| BRS | Baricentric Reference System |
| C/A | Coarse/Acquisition |
| C/NAV | Commercial Navigation Message |
| CAASD | Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (MITRE) |
| CAES | Computer Aided Earthmoving System |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CAR | Caribbean and South American region |
| CARERI | Chinese Aeronautical Radio Electronics Research Institute |
| CASM | Coherent Adaptive Sub-Carrier Modulation |
| CBCS | Composite Binary Coded Symbols |
| CBOC | Composite BOC |
| CCF | Central Control Facility |
| CCZ | Congestion Charge Zone |
| CDCM | Coastal Defense Cruise Missile |
| CDDIS | Crustal Dynamics Data Information System |
| CDDS | Commercial Data Distribution Service |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDTI | Cockpit Display of Traffic Information |
| CEP | Conventional Ephemeris Pole |
| CEP | Circular Error Probable |
| CF | Compact Flash |
| CFSP | Common Foreign and Security Policy |
| CGCS2000 | China Geodetic Coordinate System 2000 |
| CGSIC | Civil GPS Service Interface Committee |
| CHA | Channel of High Accuracy |
| CHAMP | CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload |
| CHARS | Customer Hierarchy And Reporting System |
| CIO | Conventional International Origin |
| CIP | Celestial Intermediate Pole |
| CIR | Cascading Integer Resolution |
| CIS | Conventional Inertial System |
| CL | Civil Long |
| CM | Civil Moderate |
| CMCF | Central Monitoring and Control Facility |
| CMR | Compact Measurement Record |
| CMSA | Cruise Missile Support Activity |
| CNAV | Civil NAVigation message |
| CNS | Communication Navigation Surveillance |
| CNSS | Compass Navigation Satellite System |
| COCESNA | Corporacion Centroamerica de Servicios de Navegacion Aerea |
| CODE | Centre for Orbit Determination in Europe |
| CONUS | CONtinental United States |
| CORS | Continuously Operating Reference Stations |
| COSMIC | Constellation Observing System for Meteorology |
| CP | Circular Polarization |
| CPF | Central Processing Facility |
| CPFPS | Central Processing Facility Processing Set |
| CPN | Coloured Petri Nets |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CR | Council Resolution |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CRF | Celestial Reference Frame |
| CRLB | Cramer Rao Lower Bound |
| CRS | Conventional Celestial Reference System |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CS | Commercial Service |
| CSA | Channel of Standard Accuracy |
| CSIM | Constellation Simulator |
| CSK | Code Shift Keying |
| CSRS | Canadian Spatial Reference System |
| CTP | Conventional Terrestrial Pole |
| CTS | Conventional Terrestrial System |
| CW | Continuous Wave |
| CWAAS | Canadian WAAS |
| DAB | Digital Audio Broadcasting |
| DAC | Digital-to-Analog Converters |
| DASS | Distress Alerting Satellite System |
| DCB | Differential Code Biases |
| DDMA | Doppler Division Multiple Access |
| DEOS | Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems |
| DF | Dual Frequency |
| DGNSS | Differential GNSS |
| DGPS | Differential GPS |
| DGRS | DGPS Reference Station |
| DH | Decision Height |
| DLL | Delay Lock Loop |
| DME | Distance Measuring Equipment |
| DoD | US Department of Defense |
| DOP | Dilution Of Precision |
| DOT | Department Of Transportation |
| DoY | Day-of-Year |
| DP | Dot Product |
| DSCS | Defense Satellite Communications System |
| DSNS | Differential Satellite Navigation Systems |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DSPN | Direct Sequence Pseudo Noise |
| DSRC | Dedicated Short-Range Communications |
| DSSS | Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum |
| DVP | Development and Verification Platform |
| EASA | European Aviation Safety Agency |
| EC | European Commission |
| ECA | Error Characterization Approach |
| ECAC | European Civil Aviation Conference |
| ECAM | Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitor |
| ECEF | Earth Centred Earth Fixed |
| ECI | Earth Centred Inertial |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| EDAS | EGNOS Data Access System |
| EDS | EGNOS Data Server |
| EEGS | EGNOS Extension to Eastern Europe |
| EETS | European Electronic Tolling Service |
| EFC | Electronic Fee Collection |
| EFIS | Electronic Flight Instrument System |
| EGNOS | European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System |
| EICAS | Engine Indications and Crew Alerting System |
| EIRP | Effective Isotropic Radiated Power |
| E-L | Early-Late |
| ELT | Emergency Location Terminal |
| EMLP | Early Minus Late Power |
| EMP | Electro-Magnetic Pulse |
| EMR | Energy Mines and Resources |
| EMT | Effective Monitor Threshold |
| ENC | European Navigation Conference |
| ENT | EGNOS Network Time |
| ENU | East North Up |
| EOL | End-Of-Life |
| EOP | Earth Orientation Parameters |
| EPFS | Electronic Position Fixing System |
| EPIRB | Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons |
| EPPP | Enhanced Precise Point Positioning |
| ERIS | External Regional Integrity Services |
| ERP | Earth Rotation Parameters |
| ERTMS | European Rail Traffic Management System |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESDP | European Security and Defence Policy |
| ESOC | European Space Operations Centre |
| ESSP | European Satellite Service Provider |
| ESTB | EGNOS Test Bed |
| ET | Ephemeris Time |
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival |
| ETC | Electronic Tolling Collection |
| ETCS | European Train Control System |
| ETML | European Traffic Management Layer |
| ETSO | European Technical Standard Order |
| EU | European Union |
| EuCAP | European Conference on Antennas and Propagation |
| EWAN | EGNOS Wide Area Network |
| F/NAV | Freely accessible Navigation Message |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| FAS | Final Approach Segments |
| FDE | Fault Detection and Exclusion |
| FDF | Flight Dynamics Facility |
| FDMA | Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| FEC | Forward Error Correction |
| FH | Faded-Harmonics |
| FIR | Flight Information Region |
| FIR | Finite Impulse Response |
| FKP | From German: Flaechen Korrektur Parameter |
| FLL | Frequency Lock Loop |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| FMS | Flight Management System |
| FOC | Full Operational Capability |
| FOP | Final Operational Phase |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array |
| F-PPP | Fast Precise Point Positioning |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| G/NAV | Governmental Navigation Message |
| GA | Ground Antennas |
| GACF | Ground Assets Control Facility |
| GADEROS | Galileo Demonstrator for Railway Operation System |
| gAGE | Research group of Astronomy and GEomatics |
| GAST | Greenwich Apparent Sidereal Time |
| GBAS | Ground-Based Augmentation System |
| GCC | Ground Control Centres |
| GCS | Ground Control Segment |
| GDOP | Geometric Dilution Of Precision |
| GEAS | GNSS Evolutionary Architecture Study |
| GEO | Geostationary Orbit |
| GESS | Galileo Experimental Sensor Stations |
| GGSP | Galileo Geodetic Service Provider |
| GIC | GNSS/Ground Integrity Channel |
| GIM | Global Ionospheric Maps |
| GIOVE | Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GIT | GNSS Implementation Team |
| GIVD | Grid Ionospheric Vertical Delay |
| GIVE | Grid Ionospheric Vertical Error |
| GIVEI | GIVE Indicators |
| GJU | Galileo Joint Undertaking |
| GLA | General Lighthouse Authorities |
| GLONASS | GLObal NAvigation Satellite System |
| GLONASST | GLONASS Time |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practice |
| GLS | GNSS Landing System |
| GMDSS | Global Maritime Distress and Safety System |
| GMS | Ground Mission Segment |
| GMSK | Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying |
| GMST | Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GNS | Global Navigation System |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GNSSP | GNSS Panel |
| GOC | Galileo Operating Company |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPS/MET | Global Positioning System/Meteorology |
| GPSOC | GPS Operations Center |
| GPST | GPS Time |
| GPSW | GPS Wing |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment |
| GRAPHIC | Group and Phase Ionospheric Calibration |
| GRAS | Ground-based Regional Augmentation System |
| GRS | Geodetic Reference System |
| GRSP | Galileo Geodetic Reference Service Provider |
| GSA | European GNSS Agency |
| GSLV | Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile communication |
| GSO | Geostationary Satellites Orbit |
| GSS | Galileo Sensor Stations |
| GST | Galileo System Time |
| GTRF | Galileo Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| GUS | Ground Uplink Stations |
| HAL | Horizontal Alert Limit |
| HD | Hydrostatic Delay |
| HD | Hard Disk |
| HDOP | Horizontal Dilution Of Precision |
| HEO | Highly Elliptical Orbit |
| HF | High Frequency |
| HIS | High Integrity Service |
| HMI | Hazardous Misleading Information |
| HP | High Precision |
| HPA | High Power Amplifier |
| HPE | Horizontal Position Error |
| HPL | Horizontal Protection Level |
| HPPS | High Precision Positioning Service |
| HPS | High Precision Service |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| I/NAV | Integrity Navigation Message |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IAG | International Association of Geodesy |
| IAS | Institut Aero Spatial |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| IBPL | Isotropy Based Protection Level |
| IBS | Integrated Bridge Systems |
| IC | Integrated Chips |
| ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization |
| ICC | Institut Cartografic de Catalunya |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| ICG | International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems |
| ICR | Isotropic Confidence Ratio |
| ICRF | International Celestial Reference Frame |
| ICRS | International Celestial Reference System |
| ICS | Internal Communication Subsystem |
| IDF | Ionospheric Disturbance Flag |
| IEP | Initial Experimental Phase |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service |
| IF | Intermediate Frequencies |
| IGEX | International GLONASS EXperiment |
| IGP | Ionospheric Grid Point |
| IGS | International GNSS Service |
| IGSO | Inclined Geo-Synchronous Orbit |
| ILRS | IRNSS Laser Ranging Station |
| ILS | Instrument Landing Systems |
| IM | Inter Modulation |
| IMO | International Maritime Organization |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| INC | IRNSS Navigation Centre |
| INLUS | Indian Land Uplink Station |
| INMCC | Indian Master Control Center |
| INRES | Indian REference Stations |
| INS | Inertial Navigation System |
| IOC | Initial Operational Capability |
| IOD | Issues of Data |
| IODC | Issue of Data Clock |
| IODE | Issue Of Data Ephemeris |
| IODF | Issue Of Data Fast Corrections |
| IODI | Issue of Data IGP Mask |
| IODN | Issue of Data Navigation |
| IODP | Issue Of Data PRN mask |
| IODS | Issue of Data Service Message |
| ION | Institute Of Navigation |
| IONEX | IONosphere map EXchange format |
| ION-NTM | ION National Technical Meeting |
| IOR-W | Indian Ocean Region West |
| IOT | In-Orbit Test |
| IOV | In-Orbit Validation |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPF | Integrity Processing Facility |
| IPP | Ionospheric Pierce Point |
| IRCDR | IRNSS CDMA Ranging Stations |
| IRDCN | IRNSS Data Communication Network |
| IRIMS | IRNSS Range and Integrity Monitoring Stations |
| IRN | Information Request Notice |
| IRNSS | Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System |
| IRNWT | IRNSS Timing Centre |
| IRTTC | IRNSS TTC and Uplinking Stations |
| ISI | Inter Symbol Interference |
| ISM | Integrity Support Message |
| ISRO | Indian Space Research Organization |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| ITR | International Terrestrial Reference |
| ITRF | International Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| ITRS | International Terrestrial Reference System |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
| ITU-R | International Telecommunications Union Radiocommunication Sector |
| IWG | Interoperability Working Group |
| JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| JD | Julian Day |
| JLOC | Jammer Location |
| JMA | Japan Meteorological Agency |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| KH | Kelvin-Helmholtz |
| KMF | Key Management Facility |
| L2CL | L2 Civil Long |
| L2CM | L2 Civil Moderate |
| LAAS | Local Area Augmentation System |
| LAST | Local Apparent Sidereal Time |
| LBS | Location Based Services |
| LCA | Liability Critical Applications |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| LEOP | Launch Early OPerations |
| LEX | Michibiki experimental signal |
| LFSR | Linear Feedback Shift Registers |
| LHCP | Left Hand Circular Polarization |
| LM | Local Mean |
| LMST | Local Mean Sidereal Time |
| LNA | Low Noise Amplifier |
| LNAV | Lateral Navigation |
| LO | Local Oscillator |
| LOC | Linear Offset Carrier |
| LOS | Line-Of-Sight |
| LP | Localizer Performance |
| LPV | Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance |
| LRIT | Long Range Identification and Tracking |
| LT | Long Term |
| LVP | Low Visibility Procedures |
| MASPS | Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards |
| MBOC | The Multiplexed Binary Offset Carrier |
| MCC | Mission Control Centers |
| MCS | Master Control Station |
| MCS | Multilevel Coded Spreading Symbols |
| MEAG | Mission Evolution Advisory Group |
| MEDLL | Multipath Estimating Delay Lock Loop |
| MEH | Marine Electronic Highway |
| MEO | Medium Earth Orbit |
| MEOSAR | Medium Earth Orbit Search And Rescue |
| METIS | Mediterranean Introduction of GNSS Services |
| MGF | Message Generation Facility |
| MHSS | Multiple Hypothesis Solution Separation |
| MI | Misleading Information |
| MJD | Modified Julian Day |
| MLS | Microwave Landing System |
| MLU | MRS Land User service |
| MM | Monument Marker |
| MMI | Man Machine Interface |
| MMSSS | Multi-Mode Spread-Spectrum Sub-carrier Modulation |
| MNAV | Military NAVigation Message |
| MOB | Man Overboard |
| MODIP | MOdified DIP latitude |
| MOPS | Minimum Operational Performance Specification |
| MPR | MultiPath Ratio |
| MPSK | Multiple Phase Shift Keying |
| MRA | Measurement Rejection Approach |
| MRS | Multi-Constellation Regional System |
| MS | Monitor Stations |
| MSAS | MTSAT Satellite Augmentation System |
| MSC | Mobile Satellite Communications |
| MSD | Minimum Set of Data |
| MSE | Mean-Square Error |
| MSF | Mission Support Facility |
| MSI | Misleading Signal-in-Space Information |
| MSK | Minimum Shift Keying |
| MSTID | Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances |
| MT | Military Tracking |
| MT | Message Type |
| MT0 | Message Type 0 |
| MT1 | Message Type 1 |
| MT2 | Message Type 2 |
| MT3 | Message Type 3 |
| MT4 | Message Type 4 |
| MT5 | Message Type 5 |
| MTPF | Maintenance and Training Platform |
| MTSAT | Multifunctional Transport Satellite |
| MUCF | Mission Uplink Control Facility |
| NAD83 | North American Datum of 1983 |
| NANUs | Notice Advisory to Navstar Users |
| NAPEOS | Navigation Package for Earth Observation Satellites |
| NAS | National Airspace System |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NAV | Navigation Message |
| NAVCEN | NAVigation CENter |
| NCA | Non-Critical applications |
| NCO | Numerical Control Oscillators |
| NDB | Non-Directional Beacon |
| NDGPS | Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System |
| NELP | Non-coherent Early minus Late Power |
| NEU | North-East-Up |
| NGA | National Geospatial-Intelligency Agency |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NLES | Navigation Land Earth Stations |
| NLOS | Non Line Of Sight |
| NMCS | New Master Control Station |
| NMEA | National Marine Electronics Association |
| NOCC | National Operations Control Center |
| NOTAM | NOTice to AirMen |
| NPA | Non-Precision Approach |
| NPV | Non Precision Approach with vertical guidance |
| NRTK | Network RTK |
| NRZ | Non-Return to Zero |
| NSE | Navigation System Error |
| NSP | Navigation System Panel |
| NSU | Navigation Signal generator Unit |
| NSV | Near Space Vehicle |
| NTRIP | Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol |
| OA | Operational Advisories |
| OBD | On-Board diagnostics |
| OBU | On Board Unit |
| OCC | Operational Control Centers |
| OCS | Operational Control System |
| OCX | Operational Control Segment |
| OD&TS | Orbit Determination and Time Synchronisation |
| ODTS | Orbit Determination and Time Synchronisation |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OLAF | from French: Office de Lutte Anti-Fraude |
| ONCE | Spanish organisation for the blind |
| OPF | Operations Preparation Facility |
| OQPSK | Offset QPSK |
| ORMS | Orbiter and Radio Metric Systems |
| OS | Open Service |
| OS | Operative System |
| OSD | Open Signal Data |
| OSP | Open Signal Pilot |
| OSPF | Orbit determination and Synchronization Processing Facility |
| OTF | On-The-Fly |
| PA | Precision Approach |
| PACF | Performance Assessment and Checkout Facility |
| PANS | Procedures for Air Navigation Services |
| PAYD | Pay-As-You-Drive |
| PBN | Performance-Based Navigation |
| PCV | Phase Centre Variations |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| Portable Document Format | |
| PDM | Position Domain Monitoring |
| PDOP | Position Dilution Of Precision |
| PE | Protection Error |
| PFD | Primary Flight Display |
| PL | Protection Level |
| PLANS | Position Location and Navigation Symposium |
| PLL | Phase Lock Loop |
| PM | Phase Modulation |
| PND | Portable Navigation Devices |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PNT | Positioning |
| POD | Precise Orbit Determination |
| POI | Point Of Interest |
| PPP | Precise Point Positioning |
| PPS | Precise Point Service |
| PR | Pseudo Random |
| PRN | Pseudo-Random Noise |
| PRS | Public Regulated Service |
| PRTODTS | Precise Real Time Orbit Determination and Time Synchronization |
| PS | Precision Service |
| PSD | Power Spectral Density |
| PSK | Phase-Shift Keying |
| PSTD | Pseudospectral Time-Domain |
| PTC | Positive Train Control |
| PTF | Precision Timing Facility |
| PTP | Point-To-Point |
| PVT | Position |
| PZ-90 | Parametry Zemli 1990 (Parameters of the Earth 1990) |
| QOS | Quality Of Service |
| QPSK | Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying |
| QPSM | Quadrature Product Sub-carrier Modulation |
| QZSS | Quasi-Zenith Satellite System |
| RAAN | Right Ascension of the Ascending Node |
| RAIM | Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring |
| RC | Rased Cosine |
| RCF | Raised Cosine Filter |
| RDS | Radio Data System |
| RDSS | Radio Determination Satellite Service |
| RECs | Regional Economic Communities |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RFC | Radio Frequency Compatibility |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| RFID | Radio-Frequency Identification |
| RHCP | Right Hand Circular Polarization |
| RICS | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| RIMS | Ranging Integrity Monitoring Stations |
| RINEX | Receiver INdependent EXchange format |
| RK4 | 4th order Runge-Kutta |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
| RNAV | aRea NAVigation |
| RNP | Required Navigation Performance |
| RNSS | Radionavigation Satellite System |
| RRAIM | Relative RAIM |
| RRC | Range Rate Corrections |
| RRC | Root Raised Cosine |
| RSA | Russian Space Agency |
| RSIM | Reference Stations and Integrity Monitors |
| RSN | Reference Stations Network |
| RTCM | Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services |
| RTK | Real-Time Kinematics |
| RUC | Road User Charging |
| RX | Receiver |
| S/A | Selective Availability |
| SA | Select Availability |
| SACCSA | From Spanish: Soluci |
| SAIF | Submeter-class Augmentation with Integrity Function |
| SAM | South America Region |
| SAR | Search and Rescue |
| SARPs | Standard and Recommended Practices |
| SBAS | Satellite-Based Augmentation System |
| SBCS | Sinusoidal Binary Coded Symbols |
| SCA | Safety Critical Applications |
| SCC | System Control Centre |
| SCC | Spacecraft Control Centre |
| SCCF | Spacecraft and Constellation Control Facility |
| SCPF | Spacecraft and Constellation Planning Facility |
| SDA | System Design Approval |
| SDCM | System of Differentional Correction and Monitoring |
| SDD | Service Definition Document |
| SDR | Software Defined Radio |
| SEP | Spherical Error Probable |
| SF | Single Frequency |
| SGLS | Space Ground Link Subsystem |
| SI | International System of Physical Units |
| SINEX | Solution (Software/technique) INdependent EXchange format |
| SIS | Signal In Space |
| SISA | Signal-in-Space Accuracy |
| SISE | SIS Error |
| SISMA | SIS Monitoring Accuracy |
| SLR | Satellite Laser Ranging Station |
| SMCS | Sinusoidal Multilevel Coded Symbol |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SNAS | Satellite Navigation Augmentation System |
| SNIR | Signal to Noise plus Interference Ratio |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SNT | SBAS Network Time |
| SOC | Sinusoidal Binary Offset Carrier |
| SoL | Safety-of-Life |
| SOLAS | Safety of Life at Sea |
| SOTDMA | Self-Organizing Time Division Multiple Access |
| SP | Service Provider |
| SP3 | Standard Product #3 |
| SPAC | Satellite Positioning Research and Application Center |
| SPD | Slant Path Delay |
| SPEED | Support Platform for EGNOS Evolutions and Demonstrations |
| SPF | Service Product Facility |
| SPP | Standard Point Positioning |
| SPS | Standard Positioning Service |
| SQM | Signal Quality Monitoring |
| SRD | System Requirement Document |
| SRIF | Square-Root Information Filtering |
| SRRC | Square-Root Raised Cosine |
| SS | Spread Spectrum |
| SSC | Spectral Separation Coefficient |
| SSEG | Space Segment |
| SSTL | Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. |
| ST | Short Term |
| STC | aircraft Supplemental Type Certificates |
| STEC | Slant Total Electron Content |
| STF | Signal Task Force |
| SU | Soviet Union |
| SUPPs | regional SUPplementary Procedures |
| SV | Space Vehicle |
| SVN | Space Vehicle Number |
| SW | Synchronization Words |
| SW | Software |
| TACAN | TACtical Air Navigation |
| TAI | From French: Temps Atomique International |
| TBD | see TCB |
| TCA | Terminal Control Area |
| TCAR | Three-Carrier Ambiguity Resolution |
| TCAS | Traffic Collision Avoidance System |
| TCB | from French: Temps Coordonnee Barycentrique |
| TCG | from French: Temps Coordonnee Geocentrique |
| TDARDS | Truth Data Acquisition |
| TDB | from French: Temps Dinamique Barycentrique |
| TDOP | Time Dilution Of Precision |
| TDS | Technology Demonstration System |
| TDT | Terrestrial Dynamic Time |
| TEC | Total Electron Content |
| TECU | Total Electron Content Unit |
| TGD | Total Group Delay |
| TLM | TeLeMetry |
| TLS | Target Level of Safety |
| TMBOC | Time-Multiplexed BOC |
| TMR | Triple Modular Redundancy |
| TOW | Time Of Week |
| TRF | Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| TRS | Conventional Terrestrial Reference System |
| TS | Time Synchronisation |
| TSO | Technical Standard Order |
| TT | Terrestrial Time |
| TT&C | Telemetry |
| TTA | Time-To-Alert |
| TTC | Telemetry |
| TTFF | Time To First Fix |
| TUS | Test User Segment |
| TV | Television |
| TX | Transmitter |
| U.S. | United States |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UCAR | University Corporation of Atmospheric Research |
| UDRE | User Differential Range Error |
| UDREI | UDRE Indicator |
| UEN | Up-East-North |
| UERE | User Equivalent Range Error |
| UIRE | User Ionospheric Range Error |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| ULS | Mission Uplink Stations |
| UMTS | Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| UNB | University of New Brunswick |
| UNE | Up North East |
| UNECA | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa |
| UNISPACE | United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
| UPC | Technical University of Catalonia |
| URA | User Range Accuracy |
| URE | User Range Error |
| US | United States |
| USA | United States of America |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| USCG | U.S. Coast Guard |
| USNDS | US Nuclear Detonation (NuDet) Detection System |
| USNO | United States Naval Observatory |
| UT | Universal Time |
| UT0 | Universal Time 0 |
| UT1 | Universal Time 1 |
| UT2 | Universal Time 2 |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated |
| UV | Ultra Violet |
| VAL | Vertical Alert Limit |
| VDB | VHF Data Broadcast |
| VDLL | Vector DLL |
| VDOP | Vertical Dilution Of Precision |
| VE | Very Early |
| VHF | Very High Frequency |
| VL | Very Late |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| VNAV | Vertical Navigation |
| VOR | VHF Omnidirectional Range |
| VPE | Vertical Position Error |
| VPL | Vertical Protection Level |
| VRS | Virtual Reference Station |
| VTS | Vessel Traffic Service |
| WAAS | Wide Area Augmentation System |
| WAD | Wide Area Differential |
| WADGPS | Wide Area Differential GPS |
| WAGE | Wide Area GPS Enhancements |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WARTK | Wide Area Real-Time Kinematics |
| WARTK-EGAL | Wide Area Real-Time Kinematics based on EGNOS and Galileo |
| WG | World Geodetic |
| WG | Working Group |
| WGS | World Geodetic System |
| WGS84 | World Geodetic System 84 |
| WLS | Weighted Least Square |
| WMS | WAAS Master Station |
| WRC | World Radio Conference |
| WRS | Wide-area Reference Stations |
| XPE | Vertical/ Horizontal Protection Error |
| XPL | Vertical/ Horizontal Protection Level |
| ZHD | Zenith Hydrostatic Delay |
| ZPD | Zenith Path Delay |
| ZTD | Zenith Tropospheric Delay |
| ZWD | Zenith Wet Delay |