SNOUG-Vel/src/Glossary.tex

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% ACRONYM %
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\newacronym[
  description={Flexible Image Transport System is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of data: formatted as multi-dimensional arrays (for example a 2D image), or tables. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy. The FITS standard was designed specifically for astronomical data, and includes provisions such as describing photometric and spatial calibration information, together with image origin metadata%
\footnote{\scriptsize{\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FITS&oldid=1091431488}}}
}]
{FITS}{FITS}{Flexible Image Transport System}

\newacronym[
  description={Software-defined radio is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in analog hardware (e.g. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors, etc.) are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system%
\footnote{\scriptsize{\url{https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Software-defined_radio&oldid=1106659618}}}
}]
{SDR}{SDR}{Software-defined radio}

\newacronym[
  description={Libre Space Foundation is a non-profit foundation registered since 2015 in Greece from the creators of the SatNOGS project%
\footnote{\scriptsize{\url{https://libre.space/about-us/}}}
}]
{LSF}{LSF}{Libre Space Foundation}

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% GLOSSARY %
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\newglossaryentry{AstroImageJ}
{ name={AstroImageJ},
  description={Application for astronomy and satellite image analysis}}

\newglossaryentry{artificial satellite}
{ name={artificial satellite},
  description={Satellite launched by teh hoomans}}

\newglossaryentry{stvid}
{ name={stvid},
  description={Satellite tools video application for acquiring and processing
  sky images}}

\newglossaryentry{ground-station}
{ name={ground station},
  description={a setup of equipment such as computers, cameras,
  \glspl{SDR}, 
  antennas, and receivers, located on Earth, observing space
}}

\newglossaryentry{SatNOGS}
{ name={SatNOGS},
  description={Open Source global network of satellite ground-stations%
\footnote{\scriptsize{\url{https://satnogs.org/}}}
}}

\newglossaryentry{optical-ground-station}
{ name={optical ground station},
  description={a ground station using optical equipment (cameras)
 instead of antennas
}}

\newglossaryentry{SatNOGS-Optical}
{ name={SatNOGS Optical},
  description={Project by the \gls{LSF} to expand the \gls{SatNOGS} network
  to add \glspl{optical-ground-station}
}}