Here is a list of abbreviations and links to some radio astronomy surveys and external data services. For updates and suggestions on additions to this page please send an email to ATNF Data Support.

AAFAustralian Access Federation
AARNETAustralia’s Academic and Research Network
ACESASKAP Comissioning and Early Science
ADEASKAP Design Enhancements
ADQLAstronomical Data Query Language (User Manual)
AladinAladin Sky Atlas
ASKAPAustralian SKA Pathfinder
ASVOAll Sky Virtual Observatory
ATOAAustralia Telescope Online Archive
ATNFAustralia Telescope National Facility
BETABoolardy Engineering Test Array
CASACommon Astronomy Software Applications
CASDACSIRO ASKAP Science Data Archive (see the CASDA Users Guide)
CASSCSIRO Astronomy and Space Science
CDCCanberra Data Centre
CDSCentre de Donn�es astronomiques de Strasbourg (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center)
CPUCentral Processing Unit
CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DAPCSIRO Data Access Portal
DOIDigital Object Identifier
DSSDigital Sky Survey
FITSFlexible Image Transport System (FITS Support Office)
FLOPSFloating Point Operations per Second
GPUGraphical Processing Unit
HOPSHOPS: The H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey
HPCHigh Performance Computing
IVOAInternational Virtual Observatory Alliance
MROMurchison Radio-astronomy Observatory
MWAMurchison Widefield Array
NCINational Computing Infrastructure
NCMASNational Computational Merit Allocation Scheme
NEDNED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
OPALOnline Proposal Applications and Links
PawseyPawsey Supercomputing Centre
SIAPSimple Image Access Protocol (VO Protocol)
SIMBADSIMBAD Astronomical Database
SODAServerside Operations for Data Access (VO Protocol)
SKASquare Kilometre Array
SSAPSimple Spectral Access Protocol (VO Protocol)
SSTScience Survey Team
TAPTable Access Protocol (VO Protocol)
TOPCATTool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
UCDUniversal Content Descriptor (VO)
VLBIVery Long Baseline Interferometry
VOVirtual Observatory (see IVOA)
VizieR ServiceVizieR Service