ACRONYMS
AMESIS: A Model for Estimation of Surface solar Irradiance from Satellite
ASAR: Advanced Synthetic-Aperture Radar
ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – Italian Space Agency
AUTH: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
BIOPAR: BIOphysical PARameter
CAP: Common Agricultural Policy
CEC: Commission of the European Communities
CI: Cereal Institute
CNR: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – National Research Council
CORINE: COoRdination of INformation on the Environment
CRDO: Consejo Regulador de la Denominación de Origen – Regulatory Board of Designation of Origin
CSK: Cosmo SKymed
D: deliverable
D&E: Dissemination Exploitation
DEIMOS: DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph
DEMETER: Hellenic Agricultural Organization
DMC: Disaster Monitoring Constellation
DG: Direzione Generale – General Direction
DISAA: DIpartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali produzione, territorio, agroenergia – Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – production, landscape, agroenergy
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
EI_L : ERMES Information from Local service
EI_R : ERMES Information from Regional service
ENMAP: ENvironmental Mapping and Analysis Program
ENVI-SAT: ENVIronmental SATellite
EO: Earth Observations
EOS: Earth Observing System
EoS: End of Season
EPIC: Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator
EPS: EUMETSAT Polar System
EP_L : ERMES Product for Local service
EP_R : ERMES Product for Regional service
ERMES: Earth obseRvation Model based ricE Smart information service
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
FM: final meeting
FP7: Frame Project n°7
GCOS: Global Climate Observing System
GEOSS: Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GII: Geospatial Information Infrastructures
GIS: Geographic Information Systems
GLC: Global Land Cover
GMES/COPERNICUS: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GPS: Global Positioning System
GPU: Graphic Processor Unit
GRiSP: Global Rice Science Partnership
HR: High Resolution
HRV: High Resolution broadband Visible channel
ICT: Information and Communications Technology
IKONOS: commercial earth observation satellite
IMAGE: satellite image mosaic of Europe
ImagineS: Implementation of Multi-scale Agricultural Indicators Exploiting Sentinels
INIT: Institute of New Imaging Technologies
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
KM: kick-off meeting
LAI: Leaf Area Index
LANDSAT: LAND remote-sensing SATellite
LPV: Land Product Validation
LRS: Local Rice Service
LSASAF: Land Surface Analysis Satellite Applications Facility
LSWI: Land Surface Water Index
M: milestone
MARS: Monitoring of Agriculture with Remote Sensing
MERIS: Medium Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MODIS: Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSG: Meteosat Second Generation
NAGREF: National AGricultural REsearch Foundation
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDSI: Normalised Difference Snow Index
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)
PRISMA: PRecursore IperSpettrale della Missione Applicativa – Hyperspectral Precursor of Applicational Mission
PROBA: PRoject for On-Board Autonomy
RCO: Regional Contact Office
RICM: Rice Integrated Crop Management
RIICE: Remote sense-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging economies service
RM: review meeting
RRS: Regional Rice Service
RTD: Research and Technologies Development
RTMs: Radiative Transfer Models
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
SDI: Spatial Data Infrastructures
SDI: Spatial Data Infrastructures
SEVIRI: Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager
SIARL: Sistema Informativo Agricoltura Regione Lombardia – Agricultural information System of Lombardy region
SM: Strip Map
SME: Small Medium Enterprise
SoS: Start of Season
SPOT: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre – Satellite for the Earth Observation
TM: Thematic Mapper
UIT: Unidad de Investigación en Teledetección – Remote Sensing Research Unit
UJI: Universitat Jaume I – Jaume I University
UML: Unified Modeling Language
UMIL: Universtità degli studi di MILano – Milano State University
US: United States
USA: United States of America
USGS: United States Geological Survey
UVEG: University of Valencia
VALERI: VAlidation of Land European Remote sensing Instruments
VGI: Volunteered Geographic Information
VGT: VeGeTation
VIs: Vegetal Indices
VRT: Variable Rate Technologies
VRT: Variable Rate Technologies
WARM: Water Accounting Rice Model
WP: Work Package