GLOSSARY 



ASCII 



BER 



BPS , bps 



CDA 



CPS 



CRC 



dB 



dBm 



DCPRS 



DCS 



DDD 



CDF 



e.g. : 



EIRP 



GOES 



Hz 



IBM 



ID 



LRC 



LSB 



max 



American Standard Code for Information Interchange 



Bit Error Rate 



Bits per second 



Command and Data Acquisition 



Characters per second 



Cyclic Redundancy Check 



Decibels 



Decibels referred to 1 milliwatt 



Data Collection Platform Radio Set 



Data Collection System 



Direct Distance Dial 



Central Distribution Facility 



for example 



Effective Isotropic Radiated Power 



Bit Energy to noise spectral power density ratio 



Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 



Hertz 



International Business Machines Corporation 



Identification 



Longitudinal Redundancy Check 



Least Significant Bit 



Maximum 



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