Acronimi
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
