| AD | Applicable Document |
| AMF | Atmospheric Motion Field |
| AMV | Atmospheric Motion Vector |
| APE | Automatic Product Extraction |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ATP | Acceptance Test Plan |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleave; a widely used video file format |
| BMP | Windows Bitmap; image format / file |
| CB | Cumulonimbus (thunder cloud) |
| CC | Convective (Cloud) Cell |
| CDM | Cloud Development Map |
| CMV | Cloud Motion Vector |
| CMW | Cloud Motion Wind |
| CNS | CineSat Nowcast Server |
| CSI | CineSat Image File |
| CSV | Comma-separated value; plain text table format / file |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| EUMETCast | EUMETSAT’s DVB-T based data distribution platform |
| EUMETSAT | European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HDF5, H5 | Hierarchical Data Format Version 5 |
| HMI | Human-Machine-Interface |
| hPa | Hecto-Pascal (atmospheric pressure level) |
| HPGL | Hewlett-Packard Graphic Language |
| HRIT | High Rate Image Transmission (file format) |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IR | Infra-Red (image channel) |
| KB | Kilobyte (1024 byte) |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LRIT | Low Rate Image Transmission (file format) |
| LUT | Look-Up-Table |
| MB | Megabyte (1024 x 1024 byte) |
| Mbit | Megabit |
| MPEF | Meteorological Product Extraction Facility; a processing unit hosted at EUMETSAT and producing meteorological products from satellite images |
| MPEG | Motion Picture Expert Group; a widely used family of video file formats |
| MTP | Meteosat Transition Program (= Meteosat 1st Generation) |
| MTSAT | Multi-Functional Transport Satellite; a Japanese geostationary satellite |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| MTG | Meteosat Third Generation |
| NIR | Near Infra-Red (spectral band, image channel) |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction; model or data |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol; used for synchronization of computers running real-time applications |
| OPM | Operator Manual |
| PBM | Portable Bit Map (single bit image format) |
| PGM | Portable Gray Map (8-bit image format) |
| PIF | Processed Image Format (proprietary format of VCS satellite receivers) |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PPM | Portable Pixel Map (24-bit image format) |
| PRJ | Projection; definition of a geographical map view |
| RAS | Sun Raster File |
| RCP | Remote Copy; protocol for copying files between Unix machines. Deprecated due to security and performance issues |
| RD | Reference Document |
| RHEL5 | RedHat Enterprise Linux Version 5 |
| RMF | Relative Motion Field |
| RMV | Relative Motion Vector |
| SAF | Satellite Application Facility; a center of competence for specific meteorological applications of satellite data |
| SAT | Satellite |
| SAT | Site Acceptance Test |
| SCP | Secure Copy; secure rotocol for copying files between Unix machines. |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol; a secure replacement for FTP |
| SMF | System Motion Field |
| SMV | System Motion Vector |
| SPR | Software Problem Report |
| SUM | Software User Manual |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphic; web-standard for vector graphics |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| UDF | User Data Feed for CineSat |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinate (same as Greenwich or Zulu time) |
| UTH | Upper Tropospheric Humidity (relative, given in %) |
| VS | Visible (spectral band, image channel) |
| WV | Water Vapor (spectral band, image channel) |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XPIF | Extended Processed Image Format (proprietary to VCS satellite receivers) |