Definitions for "WRS"
Keywords:  landsat, scene, row, path, nominal
Worldwide Reference System, a system used to assign Path/Row identifiers to every scene captured by a Landsat satellite
A global indexing scheme designed for the Landsat program based on nominal scene centers defined by path and row coordinates.
War Research Service, the official US successor agency to the WBC Committee, according to Regis established November 1942 by the Federal Security Agency (according to Williams and Wallace, in March 1943), with George W. Merck as its first director. Early on Paul Fildes and David Henderson came to Washington to meet with Merck and officials from the US Army Chemical Warfare Service Fildes and Henderson advised the Americans about the BW testing conducted on Gruinard Island. Fildes requested that the US manufacture large quantities of anthrax and approximately three kilograms of botulinum toxin as soon as possible. Four principal sites were selected for BW research: Horn Island, Mississippi; the Dugway CW testing facility in Utah; a munitions manufacturing complex at Terre Haute, Indiana; and Camp Detrick.
War Risk Surcharge.
Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (USAF)
Wraparound Rear Spoiler. Sits on the trunk or hatch flush and extends to the quarter panels.
Wavelength Routing Switch. A switch, used in optical networks, that routes wavelengths as required to specific terminals in the network.
Keywords:  world, reference, system
World Reference System