Acronyms
c
century
C/P
Combination and Prediction
CA
California, USA
CASA
NRAO Common Astronomy Software Applications
CATREF
Combination and Analysis of Terrestrial Reference Frames
CATS
Create and Analyze Time Series [software]
CB
Coordinating Board
CC
Conventions Centre
CCIR
International Radio Consultative Committee
CCTF
Comité Consultatif du Temps et des Fréquences
CDAS
Chinese VLBI Data Acquisition System
CDB
USNO's Celestial Reference Frame Database
CDP
NASA Crustal Dynamics Project
CDS
CDS, Strasbourg (formerly: Centre de Données Stellaire)
CEP
Celestial Ephemeris Pole
CETEs
[IERS Conventions] Chapter Editors-in-Chief and Technical Experts
CF
Center of Frame [origin of ITRF]
CFHT
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
CFHTLS
CFHT Legacy Survey
CfP
Call for Participation/Proposals
CGCS2000
China Geodetic Coordinate System 2000
CGS
Centro di Geodesia Spaziale, ASI
CHAMP
CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload
CICGE
Centro de Investigação em Ciências Geo-Espaciais
CIO
Conventional International Origin
CLG
Central Laboratory for Geodesy
CM
instantaneous centre of mass of the whole Earth
CMB
core-mantle boundary
CMP
Conventional Mean Pole
CMS
Content Management System
CMT
Centroid Moment Tensor
CN
centre of [observation] network
CNSA
China National Space Administration
COD
= CODE
CoG
centre of gravity [to effective reflection surface]
COL
combination at/on the observation level
CoM, COM
centre of mass
CONT
continuous VLBI session/campaign
CoP
centre of phase
CORE
NASA Continuous Observations of the Rotation of the Earth
Corp.
Corporation
COSMIC
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate
COU
CODE Ultra Rapid orbits
CPF
Consolidated [Laser Ranging] Prediction Format
CPO
celestial pole offset
CPU, cpu
central processing unit
CRD
Consolidated Laser Ranging Data Format
CRF
Celestial Reference Frame
CRL
Communications Research Laboratory (now: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) )
CRMS
CRF mediansouth [sessions]
CRS
Celestial Reference System
CSR
University of Texas, Center for Space Research (CSR) , University of Texas
CSRIFS
Combined Square Root Information Filter and Smoother (program)
CSTG
Commission on International Coordination of Space Techniques for Geodesy and Geodynamics
CSV, csv
comma-separated values [format]
CSW
Catalogue Service Web
CTRF
Conventional Terrestrial Reference Frame
CTRS
Conventional Terrestrial Reference System
CU
[DPAC] Coordination Unit
curl
Client for URLs (or: Curl URL Request Library)
CV
Curriculum Vitae
CVRS
Conventional Vertical Reference System
CW
Chandler Wobble
