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AMESIS: A Model for Estimation of Surface solar Irradiance from Satellite

ASAR: Advanced Synthetic-Aperture Radar

ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – Italian Space Agency

AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

BIOPAR: BIOphysical PARameter

CAP: Common Agricultural Policy

CEC: Commission of the European Communities

CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - National Research Council

CSK: Cosmo SKymed

D&E: Dissemination Exploitation

DMC: Disaster Monitoring Constellation

DG: Direzione Generale – General Direction

DGA - Regione Lombardia: Direzione Generale Agricoltura – Regione Lombardia; Agriculture General Direction of Lombardy Region

DORIS-NET: Downstream Observatory organised by Regions active In Space – Network

DUSAF: Destinazione d’Uso dei Suoli Agricoli e Forestali – Land Use of Agricultural and Foestry Soils

ECMWF: Hence forecast from the European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasts

ENMAP: ENvironmental Mapping and Analysis Program

ENVI-SAT: ENVIronmental SATellite

EO: Earth Observations

EOS: Earth Observing System

EPIC: Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator

ESA: European Space Agency

ETM+: Enhanced Thematic Mapper +

EU: European Union

EUMETSAT: EUropean organisation for the exploitation of METeorological SATellites

EVI: Enhanced Vegetation Index

FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization

fAPAR: Fraction of Acquired Photosynthetically Active Radiation

GMES/COPERNICUS: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

GPS: Global Positioning System

HR: High Resolution

HRV: High Resolution broadband Visible channel

ICT: Information and Communications Technology

IKONOS: commercial earth observation satellite

INSPIRE: Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

IREA: Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente – Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment

IRRI: International Rice Research Institute

ISAC: Information Service on Agricultural Change

LAI: Leaf Area Index

LANDSAT: LAND remote-sensing SATellite

MERIS: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MODIS: Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MSG: Meteosat Second Generation

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NEREUS: Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NUT: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)

PROBA: PRoject for On-Board Autonomy

RTMs: Radiative Transfer Models

SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar

SDI: Spatial Data Infrastructures

SEVIRI: Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager

SIARL: Sistema Informativo Agricoltura Regione Lombardia – Agricultural information System of Lombardy region

SPOT: Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre – Satellite for the Earth Observation

TM: Thematic Mapper

US: United States

USA: United States of America

USGS: United States Geological Survey

UVEG: University of Valencia

VGI: Volunteered Geographic Information

VGT: VeGeTation

VIs: Vegetation Indices

VRT: Variable Rate Technologies

WP: Work Package