Glossary

European Avionics Safety Agency is an agency of the European Union with responsibility for civil aviation safety. It carries out certification, regulation, and standardization, and also performs investigation and monitoring.

See also: EASA

Engineering Change Management: The change management process in systems engineering is the process of requesting, determining attainability, planning, implementing, and evaluating of changes to a system. Its primary goals are to support the processing and traceability of changes to an interconnected set of factors.

See also: ECM

Engineering Change Notice: An Engineering Change Notice (ECN) is a document authorizing and recording design changes throughout the prototyping and life cycle phases of a product. ECN documentation contains the justification for changes made to a component or system once the initial design is complete.

See also: ECN

Engineering Change Order (ECO) are used for changes in components, assemblies, or documents such as processes and work instructions. They may also be used for changes in specifications. Lastly, it can be "a modification that will have an effect on a manufactured product or manufacturing process.

See also: ECO

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the concept of businesses electronically communicating information to that which was traditionally communicated on paper. The two classic examples of such information are purchase orders and invoices. Technical standards for EDI exist to facilitate parties transacting such instruments without having to make special arrangements

See also: EDI.

Electronic Data Processing (EDP) can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information.

See also: EDP

Entertainment In Motion (EIM) is part of the Global Eagle group, founded in 1988 and is the largest independent distributor of feature films and television content to the global airline and cruise ship markets as well as the US Military.

See also: EIM

Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) is any kind of information system, which improves the functions of enterprise business processes by integration. This means typically offering high quality of service, dealing with large volumes of data and capable of supporting some large and possibly complex organization or enterprise.

See also: EIS

An electronic flight bag (EFB) is an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper. It is a general purpose computing platform intended to reduce, or replace, paper-based reference material often found in the pilot's carry-on flight bag, including the aircraft operating manual, flight-crew operating manual, and navigational charts (including moving map for air and ground operations).

See also: EFB

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Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) a Global Eagle company is a premier provider of hybrid global satellite and terrestrial communications with a specialty in providing high-bandwidth Quality-of-Service MPLS connections for telepresence and HD video over satellite.

See also: EMC

Part of the Global Eagle group, Emphasis enjoys an excellent reputation as one of the world's leading distributors of Asian language content to the airline market, representing the finest Chinese, Japanese and Korean movies as well as television programming. With decades of experience, a Hong Kong location and key relationships with producers in the region, Emphasis is an extremely well positioned gateway to premium content and services.

See also: Emphasis Video

A Global Eagle company. Emphasis enjoys an excellent reputation as one of the world's leading distributors of Asian language content to the airline market, representing the finest Chinese, Japanese and Korean movies as well as television programming. With decades of experience, a Hong Kong location and key relationships with producers in the region, Emphasis is an extremely well positioned gateway to premium content and services.

See also Emphasis

Entice is Global Eagle’s next generation wireless IFE system for passengers devices. Passengers connect to Entice via their personal device. Entice allows users to create an account that enables continuity of viewing and ensures Entice can suggest content based on the passengers’ preferences and viewing history. See also: Entice

Earth Observation (EO) is the gathering of information about the physical, chemical, and biological systems of the planet via remote-sensing technologies, supplemented by Earth-surveying techniques, which encompasses the collection, analysis, and presentation of data.

See also EO