1.2 Acronym
List
- ANSI
- American
National Standards Institute
- API
- Application
Programming Interface
- ASCII
- American
Standard Code for Information Interchange
- AST
- Asynchronous
System Trap
- BIL
- Band
Interleaved by Line
- BIP
- Band
Interleaved by Pixel
- BSQ
- Band
SeQuential
- CMS
- Code
Management System
- DEC
- Digital
Equipment Corporation
- FEI
- File
Exchange Interface
- FITS
- Flexible
Image Transport System
- FORTRAN
- FORmula
TRANslator
- FPS
- Floating
Point Systems
- GUI
- Graphical
User Interface
- HP
- Hewlett-Packard
- HRSC
- High
Resolution Stereo Camera
- HTML
- HyperText
Markup Language
- HW
- HRSC/WAOSS
- IBIS
- Image
Based Information System
- IBM
- International
Business Machines
- IEEE
- Institute
for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- I/O
-
Input/Output
- JPEG
- Joint
Photographic Experts Group
- JPL
- Jet
Propulsion Laboratory
- K&R
- Kernighan
and Ritchie
- MDMS
- Multimission
Data Management Subsystem
- MIDR
- Mosaicked
Image Data Record
- MIPL
- Multimission
Image Processing Laboratory
- MIPS
- Multimission
Image Processing Subsystem
- MSTP
- Multimission
Software Transition Project
- NBB
- Number
of Bytes of Binary (prefix)
- NFS
- Network
File System
- NIMS
- Near
Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
- NLB
- Number
of Lines of binary (header)
- PCA
- Performance
and Coverage Analyzer
- PDS
- Planetary
Data System
- PVM
- Parallel
Virtual Machine
- QIO
- Queue
Input/Output
- RDM
- Report
Display Manager
- RISC
- Reduced
Instruction Set Computer
- RMS
- Record
Management Services
- RPC
- Remote
Procedure Call
- RTL
- Run-Time
Library (specific to VICAR in this document)
- SAGE
- Science
Analysis Graphical Environment
- SPARC
- Scaleable
Processor ARChitecture. Informally, a RISC microprocessor chip.
- SPICE
- Spacecraft,
Planet, Instrument, C-matric, Events, a navigation tool, see:
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/naif.html
- SUBLIB
- SUBroutine
LIBrary (of VICAR)
- TAE
- Transportable
Applications Environment
- TBD
- To
Be Determined
- TCL
- TAE
Command Language
- VAX/VMS
- Virtual
Address eXtension/Virtual Memory System, a minicomputer operating system.
- VFC
- Vector
Function Chainer
- VICAR
- Video
Information Communication And Retrieval
- VIDS
- VICAR
Interactive Display Subsystem
- VRDI
- Virtual
Raster Display Interface
- WAOSS
- Wide
Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner
- WWW
- World-Wide
Web