| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) table format |
| CADC | The Canadian Astronomy Data Center |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device |
| CFHT | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope |
| CFHTLS | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey |
| COSMOS | Cosmological Evolution Survey |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file format |
| FoV | Field of View |
| FWHM | Full Width at Half Maximum |
| LDAC | Leiden Data Analysis Center (LDAC) catalogue format |
| MEF | Multi-Extension FITS (MEF) file format |
| PSF | Point Spread Function |
| PSFEx | PSF Extractor |
| QA | Quality Assessment |
| QC | Quality Control |
| QSO | Queued Service Observations (QSO) |
| SCAMP | Software for Calibrating AstroMetry and Photometry |
| SDSS | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| SDSS-DR8 | SDSS 8th Data Release |
| SExtractor | Source Extractor |
| SLR | Stellar Locus Regression |
| SNLS | SuperNova Legacy Survey |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| T0006 | CFHTLS 6th Data Release |
| T0007 | CFHTLS 7th Data Release |