DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
Source:
| AACCCM |
Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials |
| AAES |
American Assn. of Engineering Societies |
| AAG |
Assn. of American Geographers |
| AAGS |
American Assn. for Geodetic Surveying |
| AAG |
Assn. of American Geographers |
| AAPG |
American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists |
| AARLS |
Arkansas Assn. of Registered Land Surveyors |
| AARS |
Asian Assn. on Remote Sensing |
| AASG |
American Assn. of State Geologists |
| AASP |
American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists |
| ABAG |
Assn. of Bay Area Governments (California) |
| ABET |
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. |
| ABS |
Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ABSM |
Alberta Bureau of Surveying and Mapping |
| Abzw |
Abzweigstelle |
| AC |
Aerospace Center; Air Corps; American Cartographer (journal) |
| ACA |
American Cartographic Assn.; American Conservation Assn.; Automovil Club
Argentino; Aerial Cartographics of America (Firm) |
| ACACC |
Assn. des cartothèques et archives cartographiques du Canada = Assn. of
Canadian Map Libraries and Archives |
| ACAPS |
Automated Chart Production System (C&GS) |
| ACC |
Assn. des cartothèques et archives du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map
Libraries and Archives; Academia de Ciencias de Cuba |
| AC&C |
Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography (U.S.) |
| AccuDEM |
High-accuracy DEM |
| Accu-DRAPE |
High-accuracy DEM Draped Images |
| ACDDS |
Advanced Cartographic Data Digitizing System |
| ACE |
Advanced Cartographic Equipment; Advanced Cartographic Environment (PCI
Carto Inc.) |
| ACEC |
American Consulting Engineers Council |
| ACG |
Address Coding Guides |
| ACI |
Assn. Cartographique Internationale = International Cartographic Assn. |
| ACIC |
Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.); Automated Cartographic
Information Center (Univ. of Minnesota Library) |
| ACLS |
Assn. of Canadian Land Surveyors |
| ACM |
Assn. of Computing Machinery |
| ACMGIS |
Assn. of Computing Machinery Geographic Information Systems |
| ACML |
Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries |
| ACMLA |
Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives |
| ACMS |
Automated Census Mapping System |
ACM-
SIGGRAPH |
Assn. of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics |
| ACRES |
Australian Centre for Remote Sensing |
| ACRS |
Asian Conference on Remote Sensing |
ACS
|
Advanced Cartographic Systems; Agricultural Cooperative Service; Automated
Cartographic Systems; Automatic chemical sprinklers; Attitude Control Subsystem (Landsat);
American Community Survey (USBC) |
| ACSAD |
Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands |
| ACSM |
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping |
| ACSTTO |
Assn. of Certified Survey Technicians and Technologists of Ontario |
ACT
|
Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie (Luxembourg); Australian
Capital Territory |
| AD |
Administrative Division (USGS); Aeronautical data |
| A/D |
Analog to digital |
| ADAR |
Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration |
ADC
|
Alexandria Drafting Company; American Digital Cartography Inc.;
Aeronautical Charting Division (C&GS) |
| ADDA |
American Design Drafting Assn. |
| ADE |
AutoCAD Data Extension |
| ADEO |
Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| ADF |
Application Development Facility (GeoVision Corp.) |
| ADI |
Areas of Dominent Influence (USBC TIGER) |
| ADK |
Arealdatakontoret (Denmark) |
| ADL |
Alexandria Digital Library |
| ADM1 |
First-order administrative division |
| ADM2 |
Second-order administrative division |
| ADNR |
Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources |
| ADOT |
Arizona Dept. of Transportation |
| ADOTPF |
Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities |
| ADP |
Automated data aprocessing |
| ADPDP |
Alaska Division of Policy Development and Planning |
| ADR |
Aerial Data Reduction Associates Inc. |
| ADRG |
ARC-digitized raster graphics (USDMA) |
| ADRGs |
Arc digitized raster graphics(USDMA) |
| ADSL |
Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| ADT |
Advanced Data Technologies, Inc.; Abstract Data Type |
AdV
|
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Lander der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
| ADW |
Agricultural drainage well |
| ADWR |
Arizona Dept. of Water Resources |
| A/E |
Architectural/engineering |
| A&E |
Architect and Engineering |
| AEC |
Architecture, engineering and construction |
| AED |
Analysis and Evaluation Div. |
| AEF |
Alliance for Environmental Education |
| AEG |
Association of Engineering Geologists |
| AEI |
Aerial Exposure Index |
| AEIDC |
Arctic Environmental Information Data Center |
| AEM |
Atmospheric Explorer Mission |
| AERS |
Advanced Earth Resources Satellite |
| AES |
Analysis and Evaluation Staff |
| AESE |
Association of Earth Science Editors |
| AFA |
American Forestry Assn.; Automatic fire alarm |
| AFI |
American Forest Inst. |
| AfRL |
Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Germany) |
| AGC |
Assn. Geologique du Canada; Arkansas Geological Commission |
| ACGO |
Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Office |
| AGDS |
Automated Graphics Digitizing System |
AGI
|
American Geological Inst.; Assn. for Geographic Information (London);
Analytical Graphics, Inc. |
| AGIC |
Arizona Geographic Information Council |
| AGIS |
Automated Geographic Information System |
AgRI-
STARS |
Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote
Sensing
|
| AGS |
American Geographical Society; Alberta Geological Survey |
| AGSO |
Australian Geological Survey Organisation |
| AGSS |
American Geographical and Statistical Society |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
| AHAP |
Alaska High-altitude Aerial Photography (program) |
| AHCPR |
U.S. Agency for Health Care and Policy Research |
| AHDAS |
Adaptable Hydrologic Data Acquisition System |
| AHRS |
Attitude and Heading Reference System |
| AHS |
Automated Highway System |
| AI |
Artificial intelligence; Appraisal Inst. |
| AIA |
American Inst. of Architects |
| AI/ANA |
American Indian/Alaska Native Area |
| AIC |
Australian Institute of Cartographers |
| AICP |
American Inst. of Certified Planners |
| AID |
Agency for International Development; Aeronautical information data |
| AIH |
American Inst. of Hydrology |
| AILESP |
American Indian Lands Environmental Support Project |
| AIMS |
Airborne Integrated Mapping System |
| AIPG |
American Inst. of Professional Geologists |
| AIR |
American Indian reservation |
| AIREA |
American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers |
| AIRS |
Atmospheric infrared sounder |
AISH
|
Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques = International Assn. of
Hydrological Sciences |
| ALAE |
Atmospheric LymanAlpha Emissions |
| ALARS |
Alaska Land and Resources System |
| ALIS |
Automated Land Information System (TVA) |
| ALMRS |
Automated Land and Mineral Record System (BLM) |
| ALOHA |
Aerial Locations of hazardous Atmospheres (model) |
| ALP |
Automated Lands Project |
| Alt. |
Altitude |
| ALTA |
American Land Title Assn. |
| AMAD |
Airborne Missions and Applications Division (NASA-Ames Research Center) |
| AMAP |
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program |
| AMC |
Assn. Mineralogique du Canada |
| AME |
Aero-Metric Engineering Inc. |
| AM/FM |
Automated mapping/facilities management |
| AMG |
Australian Map Grid |
| AMI |
Applied Mapping Inc. |
| AMIE |
Airglow Measurements of Infrared Measurements Emissions |
| AMIS |
Aviation Management Information System |
| AMISAR |
Active Microwave ImagerSynthetic Aperture Radar |
| AML |
ARC Macro Language |
| AMPS |
Automatic Mapping and Planning System |
AMS
|
Army Map Service; American Meteorological Society; Attitude Measurement
Sensor; Automated Mapping System |
| AMSD |
Adjusted Mapping Support Data |
| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| ANARE |
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions |
| ANMS |
Automated Notice to Mariners System |
| ANOVA |
Analyses of variance |
| ANRC |
Alaska Native Regional Corp. |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Inst. |
| ANV |
Alaska Native village |
| ANVSA |
Alaska Native village statistical area |
| ANZLIC |
Australia New Zealand Land Information Council |
| AO |
Area of Operations |
| AODC |
Australian Oceanographic Data Centre |
| AOIPS |
Atmospheric and Oceanographic Image Processing System |
| AOL |
America On Line |
| AOLS |
Assn. of Ontario Land Surveyors |
| AOML |
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| AOO |
American Oceanographic Organization |
| AOSS |
Ashtech Office Suite for Survey |
| AP |
Analytical Plotter |
| APA |
American Planning Assn. |
| APCA |
Air Pollution Control Assn. |
| APCM |
Aerial Photography Contract Management System |
| APEGGA |
Assn. of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta |
| APFO |
Aerial Photography Field Office (USDA) |
| API |
American Petroleum Inst.; Application programming interface |
| APIS |
Aerial Photography Information System |
| APMI |
Aerial Photography Micrographic Index System (USGS) |
| Apo. |
Apogee |
| APPSR |
Aerial Photography Progress Summary Report |
| APQF |
Aerial Photography Quad File |
| APR |
Airborne Profile Recorder |
| APSR |
Aerial Photography Summary Record |
| APSRS |
Aerial Photography Summary Record System (USGS) |
| APT |
Automatic picture transmission |
| APTS |
Aerial Profiling of Terrain System |
| APWA |
American Public Works Assn. |
| APWWA |
American Public Water Works Assn. |
| ARA |
Address Register Area; Algemeen Rijksarchief (Netherlands) |
| ARAMCO |
Arabian American Oil Company |
| Arb. |
Arbeiter |
| ARC |
Ames Research Center (NASA); Appalachian Regional Commission |
| ARCC |
American Rivers Conservation Council |
| ArcFM |
Arc Facilities Manager (ESRI) |
| Arch. |
Architect; Architecture |
| ARG |
American Resources Group |
| ARIS |
Alabama Resource Information System; Arizona Resources Information System |
| ARM |
Administracion de Recursos Minerales (Panama); Airborne Remote Mapping |
| ARMIS |
Arkansas Resource Management Information System |
| Arr. |
Arrondissement |
| ARRSTC |
Asian Regional Remote Sensing Training Centre |
| ARS |
Agricultural Research Service |
| ARSC |
Australian Remote Sensing Conference |
| ARSP |
Applied Remote Sensing Program (Univ. of Arizona) |
| Artil. |
Artillery |
| ARZ |
AutoRestricted Zone |
| AS |
Anti-spoofing; Area source; automatic sprinklers |
| A-S |
Anti-spoofing |
| ASA |
American Standards Assn. |
| ASAP |
Advanced Scientific Array Processor; Agricultural Sciences Advisory Panel |
| ASB. CL. |
Asbestos-covered frame building |
| ASC |
American Society of Cartographers |
| ASCE |
American Society of Civil Engineers |
| ASCF |
Ames Satellite Communications Facility |
| ASCIE |
American Standard Code for Information Exchange |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASCLA |
Assn. of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ALA) |
| ASCP |
America Society of Consulting Planners |
| ASCS |
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (USDA) |
| ASEE |
American Society for Engineering Education |
| ASFE |
Assn. of Soil and Foundation Engineers |
| ASFPM |
Assn. of State Floodplain Managers |
| ASGA |
Assn. des Services Geologiques Africains |
| ASHTD |
American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
| ASI |
Analytical Surveys, Inc. |
| ASLA |
American Society of Landscape Architects |
| ASLO |
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography |
| ASO |
Australian Survey Office |
| ASP |
American Society of Photogrammetry |
ASPLS
|
Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors; Alaska Society of
Professional Land Surveyors |
| ASPRS |
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| ASPS |
Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors |
| ASRL |
Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory |
| Ass. |
Association |
| Assn. |
Association |
| AST |
Atlantic Standard Time |
| ASTM |
American Society for Testing Materials |
| AT |
Aero-Triangulation |
| ATC |
Air Target Chart; Advance Technology Corp. |
| ATID |
Attribute ID |
| ATKIS |
Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informationssystem |
| ATM |
Adaptive triangular mesh |
| ATR1 |
Automatic Target Recognition module (Leica) |
ATS
|
Advanced Technology Satellite; Applications Technology Satellite;
Automated Technical Systems (Firm) |
| AU |
Astronomical unit |
| AURISA |
Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Assn. |
| AUSDEC |
Australasian Data Exchange Centre |
| AUSLIG |
Australian Surveying and Land Information Group |
| Av. |
Avenue |
| AV |
Audio-visual |
| AVCA |
Audio-visual and Cartographic Archives Div., National Archives of Canada |
| Ave. |
Avenue |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS |
Advanced Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer |
| AVL |
Automatic Vehicle Location |
| AVNIR |
Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer |
| AVO |
Audio/visual object |
| AVRI |
Arizona Vegetation Resource Inventory |
| AVS |
Application Visualization System (Visual Systems, Inc.) |
| AWAR |
Area weighted average resolution |
| AWG |
Association for Women Geoscientists |
| AWIPS |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| AWMSAS |
ArcView Marine Spill Analysis System |
| AWRA |
American Water Resources Assn. |
| AWS |
Air Weather Service |
| AWWA |
American Water Works Assn. |
| AZ |
Arizona |
| A.Z. |
Alexander Zakreski |
| AzMAP |
Arizona Mapping Advisory Council |
| B |
Bulletin |
| B&L |
Boggs and Lewis |
| BA |
Booksellers Assn. of Great Britain & Ireland |
| BAAMA |
Bay Area Automated Mapping Assn. |
| BADGER |
Bay Area Digital GeoResource |
BAKOSUR-
TANAL |
Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Indonesia) = National Coordination
Agency for Surveying and Mapping (Indonesia) |
| Banobras |
Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos (Mexico) |
| BAOR |
British Army of the Rhine |
| BARCIS |
BARCode Information System |
| BARD |
San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database |
| BARP |
Bundesamt fur Raumplanung (Switzerland) |
| BART |
Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California) |
| BAS |
British Antarctic Survey |
BASIC
|
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Bay Area Shared Information
Consortium |
| BASINS |
Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Systems (USEPA) |
| BB |
Band-by-band; Blattbereich |
| BBS |
Bulletin board system |
| BC |
Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.) |
| BCDC |
Bay Conservation and Development Commission |
| BCGS |
Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines) |
| BCH |
Beach |
| BDET |
Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd. |
| BDG |
Bridge |
| Bdy |
Boundary |
| BE |
Brick enclosed elevator |
| BEA |
Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates |
| B.E.F. |
British Expeditionary Force |
| BEG |
Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas) |
| BEICIP |
Bureau d'Etudes Industrielles et de Cooperation de l'Institut Francais du Petrole |
| bes. |
besonders |
| Betrbf |
Betriebsbahnhof |
| BETS |
Brunson Electronic Triangulation System |
| BEV |
Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria) |
| BfGR |
Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Germany) |
| BfLR |
Bundesanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumentwicklung (Germany) |
| BG |
Block group |
| BGC |
Business Geographics Conference |
| BGHT |
Bight |
| BGN |
Board on Geographic Names (U.S.) |
| BGS |
British Geological Survey |
| Bgw. |
Bergwerk = mine |
| Bhf. |
Bahnhof = Railway station |
| BHS |
Boston Harbor Software, Inc. |
| BIA |
Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.) |
| BICI |
Book item contribution identifier |
| BIL |
Band Interleaved by Line |
| BIOMAPS |
Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources |
| BIOTROP |
Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Indonesia) |
| BIP |
Band Interleaved by Pixel |
| Bl. |
Boulevard |
| BLDG |
Building |
| BLG |
Binary line generalization |
| BLM |
Bureau of Land Management (U.S.) |
| BLOB |
Binary large object |
| BLPU |
Basic land and property unit |
| BLS |
Bahamas Lands and Surveys Dept. |
| BLT |
Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland) |
| BLVA |
Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt |
| Blvd. |
Boulevard |
| BM |
Bench mark; Bureau of Mines |
| BMA |
Botswana Ministry of Agriculture |
| BMDO |
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (U.S.) |
| BMG |
Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (Philippines) |
| .BMP |
Bitmapped image format (Microsoft Corp.) |
| BMR |
Bureau of Mineral Resources (Australia, Papua New Guinea) |
| BN |
Biblioth`eque Nationale |
| BNA |
Block numbering area |
| BND |
Stream bend |
| BNPC |
Bathymetric navigation planning chart |
| BNPD |
Bivariate Normal Probability Density |
| BOA |
Building omission area |
| BOC |
Bureau of the Census |
| BOFRS |
Books and Open-File Report Section (USGS) |
| BOLS |
BADGER On-line Service |
| BOM |
Bureau of Mines |
| BOP |
Bureau of Printing |
| BOR |
Bureau of Reclamation |
| BOREAS |
Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study |
| BORPELS |
Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (Calif.) |
| BOSS |
Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on |
| BP |
Boundary marker (USDMA) |
| BPA |
Bonneville Power Administration |
| BPI |
Bits per Inch |
| BPPT |
Badan Pembinaan dan Penerapan Teknologi (Indonesia) |
| BPR |
Bureau of Public Roads |
| BPS |
Bits per Second |
| BR |
Bureau of Reclamation |
| br. |
breit |
| Br. |
Breite |
| Brck. |
Brucke = bridge |
| BRFD |
Bidirectional reflectance distribution function |
| BRICMICS |
British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems |
| BRGM |
Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France) |
| BRS |
Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
| BS |
Bureau of Statistics (Japan) |
| BSC |
Boston Survey Consultants |
| BSE |
Base flood elevation |
| BSNH |
Headwater basin |
| BSQ |
Band Sequential |
| BSU |
Base Spatial Unit |
| BT |
Base Topo |
| BTA |
Basic Trading Areas (FCC) |
| BTS |
Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
| BUPNIS |
Beijing Underground-Network Information System |
| BUTE |
Butte |
| BVG |
Berliner Verkehrs Gesellschaft |
| BVU |
Brightness Value Unit |
| B/W |
Black and white |
| BWC |
Bandwidth Compression |
| BWE |
Bandwidth Expansion |
| C |
Cartography; Celsius (degrees) |
| ca. |
Circa |
| CA |
California |
| C., A. |
Antonio Castro |
| C/A |
Coarse-Acquisition (code) |
| CAA |
Civil Aeronautics Administration (U.S.); Civil Aviation Authority (Great Britain) |
| CAAD |
Cartographic and Architectural Archives Div., National Archives of Canada |
| CAC |
Center for Advanced Computation (Univ. of Illinois); Compressed Aeronautical Chart
(U.S. government) |
| CACS |
Canadian Active Control System |
| CAD |
Computer-aided drafting; Computer assisted design |
| CADD |
Computer-aided design and drafting |
| CADMAP |
Computer-aided drafting, mapping, and photogrammetry |
| CAFF |
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna |
| CAFM |
Computer-aided facility management |
| CaGIS |
Cartography and Geographic Information Science (journal)); Cartography and
Geographic Information Systems (journal) |
| CAGIS |
Cartography and Geographic Information Society |
| CALMIT |
Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (Univ. of
Nebraska-Lincoln) |
| CALS |
Connecticut Assn. of Land Surveyors; Computer-aided acquisition and logistic support;
Computer Assisted Land Survey System (SPDK) |
| CALTRANS |
California Dept. of Transportation |
| CAM |
Computer aided mapping |
| CAMEO |
Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations System (U.S.) |
| CAMFER |
Center for the Assessment & Monitoring of Forest & Environmental Resources
(Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) |
| CAP |
Cooperative Agreements Program (FGDC) |
| CAPDU |
Canadian Assn. of Public Data Users |
| CAR |
Curriculum, Accreditation and Registration Committee (ACSM); Central African Republic |
| CARES |
Center for Agricultural, Resource, and Environmental Systems (Univ. of Missouri) |
| CARS |
Computer-Assisted Reproduction; Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (Oklahoma
State Univ.) |
| CASA |
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Univ. College, London) |
| CASE |
Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
| CAT |
Computer Assisted Thermography |
| CATS |
Consequences Assessment Tool Set (FEMA) |
| CAVA |
Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Div. = Div. des archives cartographiques et
audio-visuelles (DACA), National Archives of Canada |
| CB |
Column builder |
| C.B. |
Hollow concrete or cement block construction |
| CBD |
Central business district |
| CBEP |
Community-Based Environmental Protection (USEPA program) |
| CBET |
Concrete block enclosed elevator |
| CBI |
China Burma India Theatre of Operations (WW II) |
| CBL |
Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Suriname); Calibration base line |
| cbm |
Kubikmeter (cubic meter) |
| CBN |
Cooperative Base Network |
| CBP |
Chesapeake Bay Project |
| C. BR |
Concrete, lime, cinder or cement brick |
| CBS |
Community Base Station |
| CBWE |
Corn Blight Watch Experiment |
| CC |
Cartographic Catalog |
| CCA |
Canadian Cartographic Assn. |
| CCAP |
Competative Cooperative Agreements Program (U.S.) |
| CCBCCM |
Canadian Committee for the Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials |
| CCC |
Canadian Committee on Cataloging |
| CCCELS |
California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors |
| CCD |
Census county division; Computer Center Div. (USGS); Charged couple device |
| CCELC |
Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification |
| CCGE |
Canadian Council on Geographic Education |
| CCGM |
Center for Computing Graphics (Delft Univ. of Technology) |
| CCIG |
Centre canadien d'information sur la geoscience |
| CCID |
Chain component ID |
| CCISA |
Congress of Cartographic Information Specialist Associations |
| CCITT |
International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee |
| CCLS |
Canadian Council of Land Surveyors |
| CCNS4 |
Computer Controlled Navigation System (E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc.) |
| CCRS |
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing |
| CCT |
Computer Compatible Tape; Centro de Ciencia Tropical |
| CCM |
Canada Centre for Mapping |
| CD |
Compact disc; Conservation Div. (USGS) |
| CDA |
Colorado Dept. of Agriculture |
| CDC |
California Dept. of Conservation; Control Data Corporation |
| CD-CINC |
CD-ROM Consistent Interface Committee (U.S.) |
| CDED |
Canadian Digital Elevation Data |
| CDF |
Cumulative distribution function; California Dept. of Forestry |
| CDFG |
California Dept. of Fish and Game |
| CDH |
Communications and data handling |
| CDMG |
California Div. of Mines and Geology |
| CDN |
Coordinates, definitions and notations |
| CDOW |
Colorado Division of Wildlife |
| CDOWG |
CD-ROM Data Origination Working Group (U.S.) |
| CDP |
Cartographer Development Program; Census designated place; Colorado Division of
Planning |
| .CDR |
CorelDraw format |
| CD-R |
Compact disk-recordable |
| CD-ROM |
Compact disk-read only memory |
| CDT |
Computer display terminal; Central Daylight Time; Constrained Delaunay triangulation |
| CDTED |
Compressed digital terrain elevation data |
| CDV |
Cartographic data visualizer |
| CD-W |
Compact disk-- re-writable |
| CDWR |
California Dept. of Water Resources |
| CE |
Corps of Engineers |
| C.E. |
Civil Engineer |
| CEAL |
Centro Editor de America Latina |
| CEBAF |
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility |
| CECSVB |
Comit pour l'Etablissement de la Carte des Sols et de la Vegetation de la Belgique |
| CECW |
Consulting Engineers Council of Washington |
| CEDAC |
Comprehensive Economic Data Atlas of China |
| CEDD |
Committee on the Exchange of Digital Data |
| CEE |
Comite Estatal de Estadisticas (Cuba) |
| CEGET |
Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropical (Bordeaux) |
| CELSOC |
Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California |
| Cem. |
Cemetery |
| CEMA |
Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Assn. |
| CEN |
Comite europeen de normalization electronique |
| CENREN |
Centro de Recursos Naturales (El Salvador) |
| CENTA |
Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (El Salvador) |
| CEO |
European Centre for Earth Observation |
| CEP |
Celestial Ephemeris Pole |
| CERCO |
Comite Europeen de Responsibles de la Cartographie Officielle |
| CERD |
Catalog of Environmental Resource Data |
| CERES |
California Environmental Resource Evaluation System |
| CERCG |
Centre d'Etudes et de Realisations Cartographiques Geographiques (France) |
| CERR |
Centre d'Ecologie des Ressources Renouvelables (France) |
| CES |
Committee on Earth Sciences |
| CET |
Commission on Education and Training (IGA) |
| CETENAL |
Comision de Estudios del Territorio Nacional (Mexico) |
| CEU |
Continuing education unit |
| CFCC |
Census Feature Class Code |
| CFF |
Cartographic Feature File |
| C.G. |
Coast Guard |
| CGA |
Color Graphics Adaptor |
| CGC |
Commission geologique du Canada |
| CGDB |
Central Geographic Data Base |
| CGDI |
Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure |
| CGI |
Computer Graphics Interface; Common gateway interface |
| CGIC |
Canadian Geoscience Information Centre |
| CGIS |
Center for GIS (Qatar) |
| .CGM |
Computer graphics metafile |
| CGMW |
Commission for the Geological Map of the World |
| CGNHS |
Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey |
| CGPM |
Conference General des Poids et Mesures |
| C&GS |
Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.) |
| CGS |
Civil GPS Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Colorado Geological Survey |
| CGSICO |
Civil GPS Service Interface Committee |
| CGU |
Canadian Geophysical Union |
| CGW |
Computer Graphics World (journal) |
| CH |
Chief Hydrologist; Church; Chapel |
| CHEEC |
Center for the Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (Univ. of Iowa) |
| CHIA |
Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Assessment |
| CHNM |
Marine channel |
| CHS |
Canadian Hydrographic Service |
| CI |
Compass and inclinometer |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) |
| CIAF |
Centro de Investigaciones en Percepcion Remota |
| CIAS |
CD-ROM Index Architecture Specification Working Group (U.S.) |
| CIACER |
Centro de Investigacion y Aplicacion de Sensores Remotos (Bolivia) |
| CIB |
Controlled image base |
| CIBESA |
Cartografica Iberica S.A. |
| CICAEDAS |
Committee Investigating Cartographic Entity, Definitions, and Standards |
| CIDAMM |
Centro de Informacion y Documentacion del Area Metropolitana de Madrid |
| CIE |
Iompair Eireann Coras; Classified image editor |
| CIESIN |
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
| CIG |
Canadian Inst. of Geomatics; Climate Interest Group; Centro de Investigaciones
Geotecnicas (El Salvador) |
| CIGF |
Centre d'Information Geographique et Fonci`ere Ministre de l'Energie et des
Ressources, Quebec) |
| CIGNET |
Cooperative International GPS Network |
| CIKM |
Conference on Information Knowledge Management |
| CIM |
Collection insertion map; Council on Information Management (Virginia) |
| CINDI |
Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (USGS) |
| CIO |
Central Imagery Office (U.S.) |
| CIP |
Contour Interpolation Program; Canadian Institute of Planners |
| CIR |
Color infrared |
| CIRSS |
California Integrated Remote Sensing System |
| CIS |
Canadian Inst. of Surveying; Color Imaging Systems (Barneyscan Corp.) |
| CISD |
Cook Islands Dept. of Survey |
| CISIG |
Geographic Information Systems Interest Group |
| CISM |
Canadian Inst. of Surveying and Mapping |
| CIST |
Centre d'information sur les sciences de la Terre (Canada) |
| CITYG |
City Graphic |
| CIU |
Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain) |
| CK-PL |
Check plotter |
| CLD |
Center line data |
| CLDB |
Common Land Data Base |
| CLDS |
Canada Land Data System(s) |
| CLI |
Canada Land Inventory |
| CLID |
Class identifier |
| CLIRSEN |
Remote Sensing Center (Ecuador) |
| Clk. |
Clerk |
| CLL |
Corrected line length |
| CLOMA |
Confidential letters of map amendment |
| CLS |
Canada Land Surveyor |
| CLSA |
California Land Surveyors Assn. |
| CLUMP |
Canada Land Use Monitoring Program |
| cm |
Centemeter |
| CM |
Cartographic material; Configuration management |
| CMA |
Census Metropolitan Area (Statistics Canada); Central Mapping Agency (New South Wales)
|
| CMD |
Current meter digitizer; Command |
| CMI |
Corvallis Microtechnology Inc. |
| CMIB |
Controlled multispectral image base |
| CMO |
Canada Map Office |
| CMOTS |
Cartographic Material Order and Tracking System (USGS) |
| CMP |
Coastal Mapping Program; Camp |
| CMS |
California Map Society; Clay Minerals Society |
| CMSA |
Consolidated metropolitan statistical area |
| CMSDU |
Commission on Map Use and Spatial Data Use (ICA) |
| CMSM |
Committee on Marine Surveying and Mapping |
| CMT |
Corvallis Microtechnology Inc. |
| C&MT |
Communication & Measurement Technologies Ltd. |
| CMYK |
Cyan-magenta-yellow-black |
| CNA |
Comiss~ao Nacional do Ambiente (Portugal) |
| CNES |
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France) |
| CNEXO |
Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Oceans (France) |
| CNFL |
Confluence |
| CNI |
Coalition for Networked Information |
| CNIG |
Centro Nacional de Informac~ao Geografica = Portuguese National Center for Geographic
Information |
| CNR |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (Italy) |
| CNRA |
Commission on National and Regional Atlases (ICA) |
| CNRG |
Centre National de Recherches Geomorphologiques (Belgium) |
| CNROA |
Centro Nacional de Reconhecimento e Ordenamento Agrario (Portugal) |
| CNRS |
Centre National de Recherches Scientifique (France) |
| CNRST |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (Burkina Faso) |
| CNSTAT |
Committee on National Statistics (U.S.) |
| Co. |
Company; County |
| CO |
Cartometric operations; Colorado |
| COBOL |
Common Business Oriented Language |
| COBRIG |
Council of British Geography |
| COE |
Corps of Engineers |
| COEB |
Coastal and Estuarine Oceanography Branch (US NOS) |
| COFPAES |
Committee on the Federal Procurement of Architect and Engineer Services |
| COFRS |
Chinese Operational Earth Resources Satellite |
| COG |
Council of Governments |
| COGO |
Coordinate geometry |
| C.O.I. |
Office of Coordinator of Information (U.S.) |
| col. |
Color; colored |
| Col. |
Colonel |
| COL |
Agricultural colony |
| COLD |
Computer Output to Laser (optical) Disc |
| Com. |
Committee; Commission; Commodore |
| COM |
Component Object Model (Microsoft) |
| COMAP |
Continuous area pattern mapping |
| Comdg. |
Commanding |
| COMIS |
Cartographic Operations Management Information System |
| COMPAS |
Coastal Ocean Management, Planning and AssessmentSystem |
| COMSAT |
Communications Satellite (corp.) |
| CONC. |
Concrete or reinforced concrete construction |
| Cong. |
Congress |
| CONRIM |
Committee on Natural Resource Information Management(Alaska) |
| CONUS |
Continental United States |
| COP/BOP |
City of Portland Bureau of Planning |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| Corp. |
Corporal; Corporation |
| CORS |
Continuously operated reference station(s); Continuously operating GPS reference
stations |
| CORSE |
Conference on Remote Sensing Education |
| COS |
Central Office of Statistics (Malta) |
| COSMIC |
Computer Software Management and Information Center |
| COSML |
Committee on Southern Map Libraries |
| COSPAR |
Committee on Space Research |
| COTS |
Commercial-of-the-shelf |
| COVIS |
Commonwealth of Virginia Information Systems |
| CP |
Cartographic Perspectives (journal); color printer |
| CPFS |
Colorado Plateau Field Station (USGS) |
| CPH |
Cartographic Publishing House (China) |
| CPID |
Composite ID |
| CPLAR |
Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (South Africa) |
| CPS |
Characters per second; Contour plotting system; Cartographic production system |
| CPU |
Central processing unit |
| CR |
Central Region; Coordinate reader |
| CRADA |
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (U.S) |
| CRAG |
Columbia Region Association of Governments |
| CRAIGES |
Cartographic Reproduction and Interactive Graphic Editing System |
| CRBT |
Centre de Recherches Biologiques Tropicales (Algeria) |
| CRESP |
Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (U.S.) |
| CRG |
Centre de Recherche en Geomatique (Universite Laval) |
| CRIB |
Computerized Resources Information Bank |
| CRISTA |
Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere |
| CRKT |
Tidal creek |
| CRL |
Cartographic research laboratory |
| CRN |
Canadian Road Network |
| CRPD |
City Real Property Database |
| CRREL |
Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratories |
| CRTR |
Crater |
| CRSC |
California Remote Sensing Council |
| CRSS |
Canadian Remote Sensing Society |
| CRT |
Cathode ray tube |
| CS |
Color scanner; Cubic splines |
| CSAA |
California State Automobile Association |
| CSAC |
Census Statistical Area Committee (U.S.) |
| CSAV |
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences |
| CSC |
Computer Sciences Corporation; Commercial Space Center (NASA) |
| CSDGM |
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata |
| CSFS |
Colorado State Forest Service |
| CSG |
Cartography Special Group, Assn. of American Geographers; Council of State Governments
|
| CSIN |
Computer Systems Information Network |
| CSIP |
Continental Scale International Project |
| CSIR |
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia) |
| CSIC |
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) |
| CSML |
Committee on Southern Map Libraries |
| CSOC |
Consolidated Space Operations Center |
| CSP |
Conformal Space projection |
| CSPA |
Council of State Planning Agencies |
| CSPG |
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists |
| CSRS |
Canadian Spatial Reference System |
| CST |
Central Standard Time; Chicago Steel Tape Co.; Coast; Certified Survey Technician |
| Ct. |
Court |
| CT |
Census tract |
| CTC |
Cartoteca de Catalunya |
| CTCUQ |
Commission de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Quebec |
| CTD |
Chief, Topographic Division; Conductivity-temperature-depth |
| CTI |
Critical Technologies Inst. (RAND Corp.) |
| CTL |
Cartographic Technology Lab. |
| CTOG |
Contour to Grid |
| CTS |
Communications Technology Satellite (Canadian); Conventional terrestrial system |
| CUAC |
Cartographic Users Advisory Council (U.S.) |
| CUET |
Cuesta |
| CUGiK |
Centralny Urzad Geodezji i Kartografii (Poland) |
| CUR |
Council on Undergraduate Research |
| CUSEC |
Central United States Earthquake Consortium |
| CUSMAP |
Conterminous United States Minerals Assessment Plan |
| CWRA |
Canadian Water Resources Program |
| CWS |
Cartographic workstation |
| CYP |
Cape York Peninsula |
| CYPLUS |
Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy |
| CZCS |
Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
| CZM |
Coastal Zone Management (U.S. federal act of 1972) |
| D |
Dwelling |
| DA |
Data Acquisition; Dept. of the Army |
| D/A |
Digital to Analog (converter) |
| DAAC |
Div. des archives audiovisuelles et cartographiques, Archives nationales du Canada |
| DAAS |
Defense Automatic Addressing System (USDMA) |
| DAASC |
Defense Automated Addressing System Center (USDMA) |
| DAC |
Digital-to-Analog Converter |
| DACA |
Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles, Archives nationales du Canada |
| DACH |
Deputy Assistant Chief Hydrologist |
| DADS |
Digital Assisted Data Base System |
| DAG |
Directorate of Geographic Affairs (Lebanon) |
| DAL |
Data Analysis Laboratory |
| DAM |
Detection and mapping |
| DAMES |
Defense Automated Message Exchange Service (USDMA) |
| DANE |
Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadstica (Colombia) |
| DARDC |
Device for Automatic Remote Data Collection |
| DARO |
Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (U.S.) |
| DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S.) |
| DAS |
Delaware Assn. of Surveyors |
| DA&SM |
Data Acquisitions & Systems Maintenance |
| DAT |
Digital audio tape |
| DATIS |
Digital Airborne Topographic Imaging System |
| DATPE |
Direction de l'Amernagement du Territoire et de la Protection de l'Environnement
(Haiti) |
| D.A.V. |
Deutscher Alpenverein |
| DB |
Data base |
| DBB |
Deutsche Bundesbahn |
| DBDB |
Digital Bathymetry Data Base (U.S. government) |
| DBH |
Diameter at breast height |
| DBMS |
Database management system |
| DBPPWG |
Data Base Population Planning Working Group |
| DBPWG |
Data Base Population Working Group |
| DBR |
Dienst Bodemkartering (Suriname) |
| DBS |
Data Base Specifications; Direct broadcast satellites |
| DC |
District Chief; District of Columbia; Div. Chief |
| D.C. |
District of Columbia |
| DCA |
Dept. of Community Affairs (Montana) |
| DC&A |
Data Collection and Analysis |
| DCASS |
Digital Cartographic Software System |
| DCDB |
Digital Cartographic Data Base |
| DCDSTF |
Digital Cartographic Data Standards Task Force (U.S.) |
| DCE |
Data Communication Equipment; Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCF |
Digital Cartographic File |
| DCHUM |
Digital Chart Update Manual (USDMA) |
| DCI |
Differential Corrections, Inc.; Director of Central Intelligence |
| DCN |
Direccion de Cartografia Nacional (Venezuela); Document control number |
| DCP |
Dept. of city planning; Digital Cartographic Production; Data collection platform |
| DCPS |
Digital Cartographic Production Segment |
| DCR |
Design Concept Review |
| DCS |
Digital Cartography Section; Digital color separate; Directorate of Colonial Surveys
(U.K.); Data collection system |
| DCSE |
Diba Consulting Software Engineers |
| DCS/RSE |
Data collection system receiving site equipment |
| DCST |
Data collection system tape |
| DCT |
Direction Topographique et du Cadastre (Congo) |
| DCW |
Digital Chart of the World (USDMA) |
| DD |
Data dictionary; Dewey Decimal |
| DDA |
Data descriptive area |
| DDAC |
Deutscher Automobil-Club |
| DDC |
Dewey Decimal classification; Digital data conversion |
| DDCMP |
Digital Data Communication Message Protocol |
| DDES |
Digital Data Editing System |
| DDF |
Data descriptive file |
| DDI |
Design Data Inc. |
| DDIS |
Depository Distribution Information System (USGPO) |
| DDM |
Documents Data Miner |
| DDN |
Defense Data Network |
| DDPO |
Defense Dissemination Program Office (U.S.) |
| DDPS |
Desktop Digital Photogrammetry System (3D Mapper Pty. Ltd.) |
| DDR |
Data descriptive record |
| DDS |
Digital Data Storage |
| DE |
Data extraction |
| dec. |
Declination |
| DEC |
Digital Equipment Corp. |
| DED |
Data Element Dictionary |
| DE-DEM |
Drainage-Enforced DEM |
| del. |
Delineation; delineator |
| delt. |
Delineator |
| DEM |
Digital Elevation Model; Digital elevation matrix |
| DEM-G |
Digital Elevation Model--Graphic (coordinates) |
| DEM-P |
Digital Elevation Model--Planar (coordinates) |
| DEMR |
Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada |
| DEMVFY |
Digital Elevation Model Verify (verification software) |
| Dep. |
Deputy; Departement |
| DEP |
Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| Dept. |
Department |
| DES |
Digital Editing Station |
| DE/S |
Data Extraction Segment |
| DESI |
Diversified Energy Services, Inc. |
| DFAD |
Digital Feature Analysis Data (U.S. government) |
| DFC |
Digital Futures Coalition |
| DFG |
Dept. of Fish and Game |
| DFLIP |
Digital Flight Information Publication |
| DFW |
Dept. of Fish and Wildlife |
| DGC |
Direct Geodetic Constraint (software) |
| DGCM |
Direct Geodetic Constraint Method |
| DGDF |
Digital Geospatial Data Files |
| DGEC |
Direccion General de Estadistica y Censos (Costa Rica) |
| DGF |
Dept. of Game and Fish |
| DGG |
Direccion General de Geografia (Mexico) |
| DGGM |
Direccion General de Geologia y Minas (Colombia) |
| DGGS |
Div. of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (Alaska); Directorate General of Geological
Surveys (Iraq) |
| DGI |
Direktorat Geologi (Indonesia) |
| DGIAI |
Direccion General de Integracion y Analisis de la Informacion (Mexico) |
| DGIS |
Direct Graphics Interface Standard |
| DGIWG |
Ditigal Geographic Information Working Group |
| DGfK |
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kartographie |
| DGK 5 |
Deutsche Grundkarte 1:5 000 |
| DGM |
Div. des Gites Mineraux de l'Assn. Geologique du Canada; Direction de la Geologie et
des Mines (Burkina Faso); Direccion General de Mineria (Dominican Republic) |
| DGMG |
Direccion General de Minas y Geologia (Venezuela) |
| DGMP |
Direccion de Geologia, Minas y Petrolio (Costa Rica) |
| DGN |
Domestic geographic name |
| DGNR |
Domestic Geographic Names Report (U.S.) |
| DGO |
Direccion General de Oceanografia (Mexico) |
| DGP |
Digital Graphic Product |
| DGPA |
Direccion General de la Produccion Agraria (Spain) |
| DGPS |
Differential Global Positioning System; Differential Global Positioning Satellite |
| DGRM |
Direccion General de Recursos Minerales (Panama) |
| DGS |
Dept. of Geological Survey (Botswana); Delaware Geological Survey |
| DGSE |
Dept. of Geological Survey and Exploration (Burma) |
| DGU |
Danmarks Geologiske Undersogelse |
| DH |
Drill hole |
| D.H. |
Double hydrant |
| DHI |
Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut; Defense Hydrographic Initiative (USDMA) |
| DHN |
Directoria de Hidrografia e Navegac~ao (Brazil) |
| DI |
Data Integration; Digital image |
| DIA |
Defence Intelligence Agency (U.S.); Dept. of Indian Affairs; Dept. of International
Affairs |
| DIAL |
Digital Imae Analysis Laboratory (Univ. of Arizona) |
| diam. |
Diameter |
| DIAM |
Defense Intelligence Agency Manual |
| DID |
Data information delivery; Data information description; Digital Image Data |
| DIDS |
Digital Information Display System (U.S.) |
| DIELOG |
DAASC Integrated E-Mail Logistics System (USDMA) |
| DIES |
Digital Image Enhancement System |
| DIF |
Data Integration Function; Data Interchange Format; Display Information Facility;
Document Interchange Format (U.S. Navy) |
| DIGCAT |
Digital Catalog |
| DIM |
Digital Image Matching |
| DIME |
Dual Independent Map Encoding (U.S. Bureau of the Census) |
| Dinageca |
Direcc~ao Nacional de Geografia e Cadastro (Mozambique) |
| DIP |
Data Integration Program |
| DIPS |
Digital Image Processing System |
| DIRS |
Digital Image Rectification/Registration System |
| DIS |
Distributed Information System |
| DISHIDROS |
Dinas Hidro Oceanografi (Indonesia) |
| Dist. |
District |
| DISTDAHS |
Distributed Satellite Telemetry Data Handling System |
| Div. |
Division |
| DKDGS |
Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab |
| DL |
Data logging |
| DLA |
Diffusion-limited aggregation |
| DLCW |
Department of Land and Water Conservation (NSW) |
| DLG |
Digital Line Graph |
| DLG-E |
Digital Line Graph--Enhanced |
| DLGF |
Digital Line Graph--Framework |
| DLG-O |
Digital Line Graph--Optional |
| DLG2DEM |
Digital Line Graph to Digital Elevation Model (production software) |
| DLG-3 |
Digital Line Graph--level 3 |
| DLI |
Digital Library Initiative (U.S.); Data Liberation Initiative (Canada) |
| DLL |
Windows Dynamic Link Library |
| DLMS |
Digital Landmass System |
| DLNR |
Dept. of Land and Natural Resources |
| DLS |
Dominion Land Survey (Canada); Dept. of Lands and Survey (Guyana); Dept. of Lands and
Surveys (Cyprus) |
| DLT |
Digital linear tape |
| DLWC |
Dept. of Land and Water Conservation (Australia) |
| DM |
Departamento de Minas (Honduras); Data mining |
| DMA |
Defense Mapping Agency (U.S.); Designated Market Areas (USBC TIGER) |
| DMAAC |
Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center |
| DMAFF |
Defense Mapping Agency Feature File; Defense Mapping Agency Feature Format |
| DMAHTC |
Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Topographic Center |
| DMAIAGS |
Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey |
| DMAODS |
Defense Mapping Agency Office of Distribution Services |
| DMASPOEM |
Defense Mapping Agency Special Program Office for Exploitation Modernization |
| DMA TC |
Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (U.S.) |
| DMATC |
Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (U.S.) |
| DMAUSE |
DMA Utility Software Environment (USDMA) |
| DME |
Distance measuring equipment; Dept. of Mines and Energy (Nova Scotia) |
| DMMR |
Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources (Saudi Arabia) |
| DMR |
Dept. of Mineral Resources (New South Wales) |
| DMRS |
Data Management and Retrieval System |
| DMRT |
Dept. of Mineral Resources of Thailand |
| DMS |
Data Management System; Desktop Mapping System (R-WEL, Inc.); Drawing Management
System; Defense Mapping School (USDMA); Defense Message System (USDoD); Distribution
Management System |
| DMSI |
Data Management Segment Interface Control Document |
| DMSO |
Defense Mapping School Operations Office (USDMA) |
| DMSP |
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DMU |
Defense Mapping Unit (Singapore) |
| DMW |
Daft, McCune, Walker |
| DN |
Digital Number |
| DNC |
Digital Nautical Chart |
| DMMG |
Direccion Nacional de Mineria y Geologia (Uruguay) |
| DMTI |
Desktop Mapping Technologies Inc. |
| DNPM |
Departamento Nacional de Produc~ao Mineral (Brazil) |
| DNPCT |
Direction National de Production Cartographique et Topographique (Mali) |
| DNR |
Dept. of Natural Resources |
| DNRC |
Dept. of Natural Resources and Conservation (Montana) |
| DNREP |
Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (Kentucky) |
| DNT |
Direccion Nacional de Topografia (Uruguay) |
| DNR |
Dept. of Natural Resources |
| Do. |
Ditto (the same) |
| DO |
Digital Ortho; District office |
| DOA |
Dept. of Agriculture |
| Doc. |
Document |
| DOC |
Dept. of Commerce |
| DOD |
Dept. of Defense |
| DOE |
Dept. of Energy |
| DOH |
Dept. of Health |
| DOI |
Dept. of the Interior; Digital object identifier; Document object identifier |
| DOMSAT |
Domestic Communications Satellite System |
| DOQ |
Digital orthophoto quadrangle |
| DOQQ |
Digital orthophoto quarter quadrangle |
| DORIS |
Decision-Oriented Resource Information System (Ventura County, Calif.) |
| DOS |
Directorate of Overseas Surveys (U.K.); Dept. of State; Digital Orthophoto System;
Disc Operating System |
| DOSLI |
Dept. of Survey and Land Information (New Zealand) |
| DOT |
Dept. of Transportation |
| DP |
Data production; Digital Photogrammetry |
| DPE |
Data processing environment; data processing equipment |
| DPED |
Dept. of Planning and Economic Development |
| dpi |
Dots per inch |
| DPI |
Dots per inch |
| DPIE |
Dept. of Primary Industries and Energy (Australia) |
| DPL |
Data Programming Language |
| DPMA |
Data Processing Management Assn. |
| DPPDB |
Digital Point Positioning Data Base |
| DPS |
DEM Production System; Digital Production System (USDMA) |
| Dpt. |
Department |
| DPW |
Dept. of public works |
| DPWS |
Digital Photogrammetric Work Station |
| DQDB |
Distributed-Queue Dual Buses |
| DQQ |
Digital Quarter Quadrangle |
| Dr. |
Drive |
| DR |
Data record(s) |
| DRBC |
Delaware River Basin Commission |
| DRF |
Digital Raster File |
| DRG |
Digital Raster Graphic; Davey Resource Group |
| DRGM |
Direction des Recherches gologiques et minires (Niger) |
| DRGP |
Digital Representation of Graphic Products |
| DRGS |
Direct Readout Ground Station |
| DRO |
Digital Revision Overlay |
| DS |
Digital subsystem |
| DSD |
Digital Sailing Directions |
| DSDP |
Deep Sea Drilling Project |
| DSF |
Delivery sequence file (U.S. Postal Service) |
| DSGM |
Direcc~ao de Servicos de Geologia e Minas (Angola); Direccion del Servicio Geografico
Militar (Paraguay) |
| DSGZ |
Dept. of the Surveyor General (Zimbabwe) |
| DSIR |
Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia, New Zealand) |
| DSL |
Dept. of Surveys and Lands (Botswana); Data Service Laboratory |
| DSM |
Directorate of Surveys and Mapping (South Africa) |
| DSN |
Deep Space Network |
| DSNP |
Dassault-Sercel NP |
| DSP |
Dept. of State Planning |
| DSPW |
Digital Photogrammetric Workstation (USCE) |
| DS/S |
Data Services Segment |
| DSU |
Digital Standard Update |
| DTAD |
Digital Terrain Analysis Data |
| DTD |
Digital Terrain Data |
| DTED |
Digital Terrain Elevation Data (U.S. government) |
| DTG |
Digital tape generation |
| DTM |
Digital Terrain Model (or Modeling) |
| DTOP |
Digital Topographic Data |
| DTS |
Digital transmission system |
| DTSS-P |
Digital Topographic Support System Prototype |
| DTW |
Desk-top Workstation |
| DUMC |
Dutch Union Map Catalogue |
| DV |
Daily Value |
| DVD |
Digital video disc; Digital versitile disc |
| DVP |
Digital Video Plotter |
| DW |
Data warehousing |
| DWD |
Deutscher Wetterdienst |
| DWF |
Drawing Web Format |
| DWR |
Dept. of Water Resources |
| DXF |
Drawing Interchange File; Digital Exchange Format |
| DySIS |
Dynamic Software and Integrated Solutions, Inc. |
| D-2 |
National Interest Lands, Section D-2, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act |
| E |
East; Electronic; Elevator (open); Einwohner = inhabitant |
| EA |
Environmental assessment |
| EAF |
East African Force (UK) |
| EAFS |
Effective Aerial Film Speed |
| EAOS |
Environment Australia Online Service |
| EAP |
Environmental Affairs Program |
| Earthsat |
Earth Satellite Corp. |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| EBR |
Electron Beam Recorder |
| EBRPD |
East Bay Regional Park District (California) |
| ECDIS |
Electronic Chart Display and Information System (U.S.) |
| ECE |
E. Coyote Enterprises |
| ECEF |
EarthCentered EarthFixed |
| Ed. |
Editor; edition |
| ED |
Elevation data; Enumeration district |
| E.D. |
Eastern District |
| EDA |
Electronic design automation; Exploratory data analysis |
| EDC |
EROS Data Center (LIA); Electronic digital computer; Environmental Data Center
(California) |
| EDD |
Environmental Data Directory (Australia) |
| EDGE |
Energy Data Geographical Explorer (Petroconsultants, Inc.) |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange; Electronic Devices Inc. |
| EDIES |
EROS Digital Image Enhancement Systems |
| EDIFACT |
Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| EDIPS |
EROS Digital Image Processing System |
| EDIS |
Environmental Data and Information Service; Electrical Distribution Information System
(Santee Cooper) |
| EDITOR |
ERTS Data Interpretation and Tenex Operations Recorder |
| EDM |
Electronic distance measurement |
| EDMAS |
Environmental Dose Modeling and Analysis System |
| EDMI |
Electronic distance measuring instrument(s) |
| EDMS |
Electronic document management system(s) |
| EDP |
Electronic data processing |
| EDS |
Electronic Data Systems Corp.; Engineering Design System; Environmental Data Service
(NOAA) |
| EDT |
Eastern Daylight Time |
| EEC |
European Economic Community |
| EEZ |
Exclusive Economic Zone |
| E.F. |
Eisenbahnfaehre |
| EGA |
Enhanced Graphics Adaptor |
| EGIS |
European GIS |
| EGNOS |
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service |
| EGS |
European Geophysical Society; Economic geology series |
| EGSMA |
Geological Survey and Mining Authority (Egypt) |
| EHS |
Extremely hazardous materials |
| EIGS |
Ethiopian Inst. of Geological Survey |
| EIM |
Environmental information management |
| eingesch. |
eingeschossig |
| eis. |
eisern = iron |
| EIS |
Environmental Impact Statement |
| Eisb. Brck. |
Eisenbahnbrucke = Railroad bridge |
| EIWG |
Earth Imaging Working Group |
| ELC |
End of line code |
| ELMO |
Electronic Map Ordering |
| El.W. |
Elektrizitatswerk = electric power station |
| EM |
Electromagnetic |
| E.M. |
Mining Engineer |
| EMA |
Environmental Management Agency; Ethopian Mapping Authority |
| EMAIL |
Electronic Mail |
| EMAP |
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S. EPA) |
| EMC |
Eastern Mapping Center (USGS) |
| EMIP |
European Market for Infrastructural Projects |
| EMPS |
Elevation Matrix Processing System |
| EMR |
Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; Electromagnetic radiation |
| EMS |
Electromagnetic spectrum |
| E.N.E. |
East-northeast |
| Eng. Dept. |
Engineering Dept.; Dept. of Engineers |
| Engr. Bn. |
Engineer Battalion |
| ENIAK |
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer |
| ENID |
Endnote ID |
| ENTR |
Entrance |
| ENVISAT |
Environmental Satellite |
| EO |
Earth observation |
| EOCAP |
Earth Observations Commercial Applications Program |
| EODMS |
Earth Observations Data Management Systems |
| EOF |
End of File |
| EOS |
Earth Observing System; Greek National Mountaineering Assn. |
| EOSAT |
Earth Observation Satellite (Company) |
| EOSDIS |
Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| EOT |
End of Text |
| EP |
End Point |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.) |
| EPB |
Earth Physics Branch (Canada) |
| EPI |
Electronic Position Indicator |
| EPIRB |
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon |
| EPS |
Encapsulated PostScript |
| ERBS |
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ERCE |
Groupe d'Etudes de Recherches Critiques d'Espace (Universite du Quebec, Montreal) |
| ERDAS |
Earth Resources Data Analysis System |
| ERDC |
Earth Resources Data Center (ERIM) |
| ERDL |
Engineer Research and Development Laboratories |
| EREP |
Earth Resources Experiment Package (Skylab) |
| ERIM |
Environmental Research Inst. of Michigan |
| ERIN |
Earth Resources Information Network; Environmental Resource Information Network
(Australia) |
| ERIS |
Earth Resources Inventory System; Earth Resources Infomation System |
| ERL |
Environmental Research Laboratories (NOAA); Earth Resources Laboratory (NASA) |
| ERLAS |
Earth Resources Laboratory Application Software |
| ERM |
Earth Resource Mapping (Firm) |
| EROS |
Earth Resources Observation Satellite; Earth Resources Observation System |
| ERRSAC |
Eastern Regional Remote Sensing Applications Center (NASA) |
| ERS |
Earth Remote Sensing (satellite) |
| ERSAC |
Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Centre (United Arab Emirates) |
| ERSAL |
Environmental Remote Sensing Analysis Laboratory (Oregon State Univ.) |
| ERSAR |
Earth Resources Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ERSC |
Egyptian Remote Sensing Center |
| ERSP |
Epipolar Rectified Stereo Pair |
| ERTS |
Earth Resources Technology Satellite |
| ERSUN |
Environmental Remote Sensing Unit (British Aerospace Space Systems, Ltd.) |
| ESA |
Egyptian Survey Authority; European Space Agency; Earth Sciences Associates |
| ESC |
European Seismological Commission |
| ESCAP |
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
| ESD |
Engineering Services Dept. (Qatar) |
| ESDA |
Earth Sciences Data Standards (council) |
| ESDD |
Earth Science Data Directory (USGS) |
| E.S.E. |
East-southeast |
| ESI |
EagleScan Inc.; Enironmental Sensitivity Index |
| ESIC |
Earth Science Information Center (USGS); Earth Sciences Information Centre (Canada) |
| ESIG |
Exemplary Systems in Government award (URISA) |
| ESIM |
Earth Science Information Manager |
| ESIN |
Earth Science Information Network |
| ESIO |
Earth Science Information Office |
| ESIS |
Earth Science Information System |
| ESL |
Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc. |
| ESR |
Engineering Surveys Reproduction Ltd. |
| ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Inst., Inc. |
| ESSA |
Environmental Science Service Administration |
| ESSC |
Earth System Science Center (Pennsylvania State Univ.) |
| E. St. |
Eisenbahn Station = railway station |
| EST |
Eastern Standard Time |
| ES&T |
Environmental Science and Technology |
| E.S.W. |
East-southwest |
| ET |
Frame enclosed elevator with self-closing traps |
| ETF |
European Transfer Format |
| ETL |
Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USCE) |
| ETM |
Enhanced Thematic Mapper |
| EUB |
Alberta Energy and Utilities Board |
| EUROGI |
European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information |
| EVO |
Ernst Volker (Oldenburg, Germany) |
| Ex. doc. |
Executive document |
| F |
Fahrenheit; Flat |
| FA |
Fire alarm box |
| FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.) |
| FAAT |
Fully Analytical Aerotriangulation |
| FAC |
Feature analysis code(s) |
| FACC |
Feature and Attribute Coding Catalog |
| FACE |
Field Ancillary Computer Effort |
| FACM |
Florida Assn. of Cadastral Mappers |
| FACS |
Feature Attribute Coding Standard; Feature Attribute Coding System |
| Fahrb. |
Fahrbahn = roadway |
| FAO |
Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations) |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Question(s) |
| FARC |
Federal Archives and Record Center |
| Fb. |
Fabrik = Factory |
| FB |
Freytag-Berndt und Artaria |
| FBN |
Federal base network (U.S.) |
| FC |
Field component; Field completion |
| FCC |
False color composite; Federal Communications Commission (U.S.) |
| FCM |
Feature change map |
| FCT |
Forestry Commission Tasmania |
| FCW |
Federal Computer Week (journal) |
| FDDI |
Fiber Digital Data Interface |
| FDLP |
Federal Depository Library Program (US GPO) |
| FDLS |
Fiji Dept. of Lands and Survey |
| FDPP |
Framework Demonstration Projects Program (FGDC) |
| FE |
Feature extraction; Field engineer; Frame enclosed elevator |
| F.E. |
Forest Engineer |
| fe. |
Fecit (maker) |
| FEAT |
Alternate Feature Identification Code |
| fec. |
Fecit (maker) |
| FED |
Field-emission displays |
| FEE |
Feature Extraction Environment |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency (U.S.) |
| FEP |
Feature Extraction Processor |
| FES |
Feature Extraction Segment |
| FESWMS |
Finite Element Surface Water Model System |
| FEWS |
Feature Extraction Workstation |
| FGCC |
Federal Geodetic Control Committee (U.S.) |
| FGCS |
Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee (U.S.) |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee (U.S.) |
| FGEF |
Federal Geographic Exchange Format (U.S.) |
| F.G.S. |
Fellow of the Geological Society |
| FGS |
Florida Geological Survey |
| FGT |
Federal Geographic Technology (U.S.) |
| FH |
Field headquarters |
| FHA |
Federal Highway Administration (U.S.) |
| FHWA |
Federal Highway Administration (U.S.) |
| FICCDC |
Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography (U.S.) |
| FIG |
Federation Internationale des Geom`etres = International Federation of Surveyors |
| FII |
Fundacion Instituto de Ingeneiria |
| FILS |
Federal Government Information Locator System |
| FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standard(s); Flagstaff Image Processing System |
| FIRM |
Flood Rate Insurance Map |
| FIRMS |
Flood Rate Insurance Maps |
| FL |
Florida; Focal length; Function libraries |
| FLHO |
Federal Lands Highway Office (U.S.) |
| FLIMAP |
Fast Laser Imaging Mapping and Profiling (system) |
| FLIR |
Forward-looking Infrared |
| FLL |
Waterfall |
| FLOPS |
Floating Point Operations per Second |
| FM |
Facilities management; Field manual |
| F.M. |
Field Marshall |
| FMC |
Federal Maritime Commission (U.S.) |
| FME |
Feature manipulation Engine (Safe Software Inc.) |
| FMGIS |
Flight management geographic information system |
| FMLIS |
Federal Mineral Lands Information System |
| FMP |
Field Pack Mobile Professional (All Points Software) |
| FMS |
Facility Mapping Systems Inc.; Flight Managing System |
| FMS/AC |
Facility Mapping System for AutoCAD |
| FNESA |
Federation of New England Surveyors Assn.s |
| FO |
Field office |
| F.O. |
Field Officer; Foreign Office |
| FOC |
Full operational capability |
| FOGs |
Fiber Optic Gyros |
| FOM |
Field Operations Manual |
| FORTRAN |
Formula Translation (computer language) |
| FOUO |
For official use only |
| FOV |
Field of view |
| FPC |
Federal Power Commission; Federal Publishers Committee |
| FPT |
Full production training |
| FPU |
Floating point unit |
| FRA |
Federal Railroad Administration |
| FRC |
Federal Records Center |
| F.R.G.S. |
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
| FRM |
Farm |
| FRP |
Federal Radio-navigation Plan |
| F.R.S. |
Fellow of the Royal Society |
| FS |
Fire station; Forest Service (U.S.); Federal Survey Div. (Nigeria) |
| FSLUPC |
Federal/State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska |
| FSMS |
Florida Surveying and Mapping Society |
| FSO |
Field Support Office (U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories) |
| FSPLS |
Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| FSR |
Flight Summary Report |
| FSRAMIS |
Forest Service Range Management Information System |
| FT |
Field terminator |
| Fth. |
Fathom |
| FTL |
Future Temporal Logic |
| FTM |
Foiben Taosarintanin' i Madagasikara |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| FU |
Field unit |
| Fur. |
Furlong |
| Fw. |
Fussweg = Footpath |
| FWPCA |
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (U.S.) |
| FWS |
Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.) |
| FZDS |
Flood Zone Determination Services |
| G |
Geometry |
| G&M |
Geography and Map; geography and Map Div. |
| G&O |
Greenhorne & O'Mara Inc. |
| GA |
Geographic access; Geographical Association |
| GAF |
Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Fernerkundung |
| GAC |
Geological Assn. of Canada |
| GAP |
Geographic Application Program; Gap Analysis Program (USNBS) |
| GAT |
Geography Assn. of Thailand |
| GB |
Gigabyte; Geologische Bundesansalt (Austria) |
| GBA |
GeoBusiness Assn.; George Butler Associates, Inc. |
| GBf |
Guterbahnhof = freight depot |
| GBF |
Geographic Base File |
| GBI |
Green biomass index |
| GBIS |
Geo-Based Information System |
| Gbo. |
Grabador = engraver |
| GBS |
Geograpic Base System |
| GCCS |
Global Command, Control System (USDMA) |
| GCDB |
Geographic Coordinate Data Base (U.S.) |
| GCDIS |
Global Change Data and Information System |
| GCG |
Geocartographics Subdivison (Canada) |
| GCHC |
Gulf Coast Hydroscience Center (U.S.) |
| GCM |
General circulation model; Global climate model; General Command of Mapping (Turkey) |
| GCP |
Ground control point(s) |
| GCRA |
Geographic and Cartographic Research and Applications Section |
| GCRS |
Gulf Centre for Remote Sensing (Firm) |
| GCSS |
Global Combat Support System |
| GCT |
Greenwich Civil Time |
| GCTP |
General Coordinate Transformation Package (software); Geographic Coordinate
Transformation Package (software) |
| GD |
Geologic Div. (USGS); Geospatial data; Graphic digitization |
| GDA |
Geographic Data Analysis System |
| GDC |
Geographic Data Council |
| GDD |
Graphics Data Display Manager; GIS Data Depot |
| GDE |
Graphic Developer's Engine (FCAD Software, Inc.) |
| GDF |
Geographic data file |
| GDHS |
Ground Data Handling System (GFSC) |
| GDM |
Geospatial data management |
| GDS |
Graphic Data Systems Corp; Grumman Data Systems; Geo-Data System; Geographic Data
Service (U.S.) |
| GDT |
Geographic Data Technology Inc. |
| GDTA |
Groupement pour le Developpement de la Teledetection Aerospatiale (France) |
| GE |
General Electric; Geographic equivalent |
| GEBCO |
General bathymetric chart of the oceans = Carte generale bathymetrique des oceans |
| GEDS |
General Environmental Data Base System (Florida) |
| GEGMR |
General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources (Syria) |
| GEM |
Graphical Environment Manager |
| GEMS |
Global Environment Monitoring System |
| GEOBAL |
Servicio Geologico de Bolivia |
| GEO-CAT |
Geographic catalog of political and statistical areas |
| Geocorr |
Geographic Correspondence Engine |
| Geog. |
Geography |
| Geol. |
Geology |
| GEOLAN |
Geological (survey) local area network |
| GEOREF |
Geological Reference (system) |
| GEOS |
Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite |
| GEOSAT |
Geodesy Satellite |
| GEOSEC |
Geographic Security |
| GeoTMS |
Geographic Town Management System (Des Lauriers & Assoc. Inc.) |
| GEOZAVOD |
Zavod za Geoloska i Geofizicksa Istrazivanja (Yugoslavia) |
| Ges. |
Gesamt- |
| GES |
Geographic Entry System |
| GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) |
| GGMC |
Guyana Geology and Mines Commission |
| GGNRA |
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.) |
| GGS |
Georgia Geologic Survey |
| GGU |
Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse |
| GI |
Geographic information |
| GIA |
Geographic information analysis; Geographic information and analysis; GPS
International Assn. |
| GIAC |
Geomatics Industry Assn. of Canada |
| GIAL |
Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) |
| GIB |
Geographic Information Board (Florida); Geomagnetic Indices Bulletin; G.I.
Barnett & Son |
| GICC |
Geographic Information Coordinating Committee (Colorado) |
| GICS |
Geographic Identification Code Scheme |
| GID |
Geodaetisk Institut (Denmark) |
| GIDW |
General inverse-distance weighted interpolation model |
| .GIF |
Graphics Interchange File; Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIG |
Geologic Inquiries Group |
| GILS |
Government Information Locator Service |
| GIMS |
Geographic Information Management Systems Committee (ASCM/ASPRS) |
| GIO |
Geograpic Investigations Office (USGS) |
| GIPS |
Generalized Image Processing Sytstem |
| GIRAS |
Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System (USGS) |
| GIS |
Geographic(al) information system(s); Geohydrologic Information System; Geoscience
Information Society; Global Indexing System |
| GISDEX |
Federal Geographic Information and Spatial Data Exposition and Conference (U.S.) |
| GISMO |
GIS MOdeling (ERDAS) |
| GISOM |
Generating Information and Scanning Ohio Maps (Ohio State Univ. Center for Mapping) |
| GISS |
Goddard Institude of Space Studies |
| GIST |
Geographic Information System for Transportation |
| GITA |
Geospatial Information & Technology Assn. |
| GIV |
Geologic Information Visualization (software) |
| GKP |
Geodeticky a Kartograficky Podnik v Praze |
| GKS |
Graphics Kernal System |
| Gl. |
Gleis |
| GLAB |
Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt |
| GLAB-W |
Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg |
| GLAI |
Green leaf area index |
| GLAN-W |
Geologisches Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| GLAS |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System; Geologisches Landesamt des Saarlandes |
| GLAS-H |
Geologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein |
| GLI |
Global Imager |
| GLIS |
Geographic Land Information System (USGS); Geographic and Land Information Society |
| GLM |
General linear model |
| GLO |
General Land Office (U.S.) |
| GLONASS |
Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (Russia) |
| GLOSS |
Global Observation Surveillance System |
| GLR-P |
Geologisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz |
| GLRS |
Geoscience Laser Ranging System |
| GM |
Geography and Map; Geologic map |
| GMAT |
Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time |
| GMD |
Geologisch Mijnbouwkundige Dienst van Suriname |
| GME |
Geohydrologic Map Editor |
| GMR |
Government Micro Resources Inc. |
| GMS |
Geostationary meteorological satellite(s) |
G.M.S.I.
|
Ground Modeling Systems Inc.; Gandalf Mobile Systems Incorporated; GMSI Inc. is a firm
(not an abbreviation) |
| GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time; Generic Mapping Tools |
| G.M.T. |
Giuseppi Maria Terreni |
| GN |
Grid north |
| GNC |
Geologic Names Committee; Global navigation chart |
| GNIS |
Geographic Names Information System (U.S.) |
| GNMP |
Gettysburg National Military Park |
| GNS |
GEOnet Names Server (USNIMA) |
| GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GNU |
Geologic Names Unit (USGS) |
| GNULEX |
Geologic Names Unit Lexicon (USGS) |
| GO |
Geometric Operations |
| G&O |
Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. |
| GODORT |
Government Documents Round Table (ALA) |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NASA) |
| GOME |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
| GOMS |
Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite(s) |
| Gov. |
Governor |
| Gov. Gen. |
Governor General |
| GP |
Graphic production; Graphics processor; Geography Program (USGS) |
| GPF |
Geospatial Prototype Facility |
| GPG |
Graphic Product Generation |
| GPH |
Geological Publishing House (China) |
| GPI |
Graphics Programming Interface |
| GPIP |
General Purpose Image Processor |
| GPM |
Gestalt Photo Mapper |
| GP.MC |
Geoprocessing Map Call |
| GP.MCD |
Geoprocessing Map Call Deamon program |
| GPO |
Government Printing Office |
| GPOS |
Government Printing Office Style Manual |
| GPPU |
Graphic Polygon Processing Utilities |
| GPR |
Ground-Penetrating Radar |
| GPS |
Global positioning system(s) |
| GPSDR |
Global positioning system demonstration receiver |
| GPSIC |
Global Positioning System Information Center (U.S. Coast Guard); GPS Industry Council |
| GPST |
Global positioning system time |
| GQ |
Geologic quadrangle |
| gr. |
gross |
| Gr. |
Grosse |
| GRAMPS |
Graphic Map Production System |
| GRASS |
Geographic Resource Analysis Support System |
| GRC |
Generation of reproducible copy; Geoscience Research Corp. |
| GRD |
Ground Resolved Distance |
| GRDL |
Geodetic Research and Development Laboratory |
| GRF-N |
Geographic Reference File-Names |
| GRIDS |
Grid Referenced Information Display System; Gridded Resource Inventory Data System |
| GRS |
Geodetic Reference System |
| GRS 80 |
Geodetic Reference System of 1980 |
| GRSU |
Geography Remote Sensing Unit (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) |
| GS |
Geological Survey (U.S.); Gray scale |
| GSA |
General Services Administration (U.S.); Geological Society of America; Geological
Survey of Alabama |
| GSC |
Geographic Systems Corp.; Geological Survey of Canada; Geotronics Service Center;
Geocode Service Center (HUD) |
| GSD |
Ground sample distance; Geological Survey Dept. (Malawi); Geological Survey Div.
(Jamaica); Geodetic Survey Div. (Natural Resources Canada) |
| GSDM |
Global Spatial Data Model |
| GSDS |
Global spatial data system |
| GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) |
| GSGS |
Geographical Section, General Staff (U.K.) |
| GSI |
Geodetic Survey Inst. (Japan); Geophysical Services Inc.; Geological Survey of India;
Geological Survey of Iran; Geolical Survey Inst. (Japan); Geological Survey of Ireland |
| GSJ |
Geological Survey of Japan |
| GSK |
Geological Survey of Kenya |
| GSL |
Geographic Sciences Laboratory (USCE) |
| GSM |
Graphic Standard Metafile |
| GSMD |
Geological Survey and Mines Dept. (Swaziland) |
| GSN |
Geological Survey of Namibia |
| GSNI |
Geological Survey of Northern Ireland |
| GSP |
Geological Survey of Pakistan; Geographical statistics program |
| GSPB |
Geodetic Satellite Policy Board |
| GSPNG |
Geological Survey Papua New Guinea |
| GSRC |
Geological Survey Research Committee |
| GSS |
Geographic support system |
| GSSA |
Geological Survey South Africa |
| GSW |
Geological Survey of Wyoming |
| GSZ |
Geological Survey of Zambia |
| GT |
Geometry and topology; Greater than; Geologian Tutkimuskeskus = Geological Survey of
Finland |
| G.T. |
Gas tank |
| GTE |
Greater than or equal |
| GTI |
GIS Technology Inc. |
| GTS |
GPS Timing Simulator (NovAtel Inc.) |
| GTUB |
Geographic tabulation unit base |
| GU |
Government unit |
| GUDS |
Geologicky ustav Dionyz Stur |
| GUGK |
Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartografii (USSR) |
| GUGKK |
Glavno Upravlenie po Geodezia I Kartografia y Kadaster (Bulgaria) |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
| GUID |
Globally unique identifier |
| GUNI |
Goteborgs Universitet Naturgeografiska Institutionen |
| GUNO |
Glavnoe Upravlenie Navigatsii i Okeanografii (USSR) |
| GVF |
Goodness of variance fit |
| GVI |
Green vegetation index |
| GVIS |
Geographic Visualization |
| GW |
Gas well (natural); Ground water |
| GWE |
Global Weather Experiment |
| GWEN |
Ground Wave Emergency Network (U.S.) |
| GWSI |
Groundwater site inventory |
| h. |
hoch = high |
| H. |
Hohe = height |
| ha. |
Hektar |
| HA |
Hydrologic Atlas |
| HAC |
Harbor and Approach Chart |
| HALS |
Hawaii Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| HARN |
High-Accuracy Reference Network (U.S.) |
| Hbf |
Hauptbahnhof = main railway station |
| HBF |
Herbert Bismarck Foster |
| HBM |
Hydrologic bench mark |
| HBMN |
Hydrologic Bench Mark Network |
| HC |
Hard copy |
| HCC |
Heat Capacity Mapping Mission |
| HCDN |
Hydroclimate Data Network |
| HCMM |
Heat-capacity Mapping Mission |
| HCMR |
Heat-capacity Mapping Radiometer |
| HCRS |
Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service (U.S.) |
| HD |
Hydrographic Dept. (Great Britain) |
| HDDT |
High-Density Digital Tape |
| HDLD |
Headland |
| HDOP |
Horizontal Dilution of Precision |
| HDT |
High density tape |
| HDT-A |
High density tape (not geometrically corrected) |
| HDTR |
High density tape recorder |
| HDTV |
High-definition television |
| Herst. |
Herstellung |
| HE/S |
Hardcopy Exploitation Segment |
| HF |
High frequency |
| HFA |
Hydrologic field assistant |
| Hfn |
Hafen = port, harbor |
| Hgbf |
Hauptgueterbahnhof |
| HGCSD |
Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (U.S.) |
| .HGL |
Newlett-Packard Graphics Language format |
| HGS |
Halliburton Geophysical Services |
| HI |
Hawaii |
| HIA |
Hydrologic Investigations Atlas |
| HIF |
Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility |
| Hind. |
Hindustan |
| HIRAN |
High Range Navigation |
| HIRS |
High-resolution Infrared Sounder |
| HIS |
Hydrologic Information System |
| HISS |
Heritage Information Statistical System |
| HIT |
Horizons Technolgy Inc. |
| HIU |
Hydrologic Information Unit |
| HJW |
Hammon, Jensen, Wallen & Associates |
| HKGA |
Hong Kong Geographical Assn. |
| HLAB |
Hessisches Landesamt fur Bodenforschung |
| HLfB |
Hessisches Landesamt fur Bodenforschung |
| HLL |
Hill |
| HLLS |
Hills |
| HLR |
High level radiation; High level radioactivity |
| HLRS |
Highway Location Reference Standard |
| HLS |
Hue, lightness and saturation |
| HLVA |
Hessisches Landesvermessungsamt |
| HLW |
High level waste (radioactivity) |
| HMCK |
Hummock |
| HMGS |
Hellenic Military Geographical Service |
| HMSO |
Her/His Majesty's Stationery Office (Great Britain) |
| H.O. |
Hochofen = blast furnace |
| HOM |
Hotine oblique Mercator |
| Hon. |
Honorable |
| Hp |
Haltepunkt = stopping place |
| HP |
Hewlett-Packard (corp.) |
| HPFS |
High pressure fire service |
| HPGL |
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language |
| HPGN |
High-Precision Geodetic Network |
| HPP |
High Precision Photogrammetry |
| HPRASA |
High Plains Regional Aquifer System |
| HQ |
Headquarters |
| HR |
House of Representatives |
| HRB |
Highway Research Board |
| HRD |
High-resolution data |
| HRDB |
High-resolution Data Base |
| HRDI |
High-resolution Doppler Imager |
| HRFRS |
High-resolution Film Recorder Subsystem |
| HRGA |
High Rate Geographical Areas |
| HRIR |
High-resolution Infrared Radiometer |
| HRMSI |
High Resolution Multispectral Stereo Imager |
| HRV |
High Resolution Visible |
| HRVIR |
High Resolution Visible Infrared (scanner) |
| HS |
High school |
| HSDL |
High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| HSGT |
Hitachi Software Global Technology, Ltd. |
| HSI |
Horizontal Situation Indicator; Habitat Suitability Index |
| H. St. |
Eisenbahn Haltstelle = railway stop |
| HTC |
Hydrographic Topographic Center (USDMA) |
| H., T.C. |
Thomas Campanius Holm |
| HTDP |
Horizontal Time-Dependent Positioning |
| HTI |
Horizons Technology, Inc. |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HUA |
Hydrologic Unit Area |
| HUC |
Hydrologic Unit Code |
| HUD |
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.) |
| Hund. |
Hundred |
| H.W. |
Hochwasser |
| H/W |
Hardware |
| I. |
Island |
| IA |
Infrastructure Analyst (BaySys Technologies Inc.) |
| IACWD |
Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data |
| IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IAEG |
International Assn. of Engineering Geologists |
| IAG |
International Assn. of Geodesy |
| IAGS |
Inter-American Geodetic Survey |
| IAH |
International Association of Hydrogeologists |
| IAHS |
International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences = Assn. Internationale des Sciences
Hydrologiques |
| IALA |
International Assn. of Lighthouse Authorities |
| IALS |
Idaho Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| IAOO |
International Assn. of Assessing Officers |
| IASI |
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IAT |
Image Annotation Tape; International Atomic Time |
| IAWPRC |
International Assn. for Water Pollution Research and Control |
| IB |
Isobar |
| IBC |
International Boundary Commission (U.S.-Canada) |
| IBDF |
Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvimento Florestal |
| IBG |
Inst. of British Geographers |
| IBGE |
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estadistica |
| IBIS |
Image-Based Information System |
| IBM |
International Business Machines (corp.); International boundary marker |
| IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) |
| IBSP |
Idaho Bureau of State Planning |
| IBWC |
International Boundary and Water Commission (Mexico-U.S.) |
| IC |
Integrated circuit(s) |
| ICA |
International Cartographic Assn. = Assn. Cartographique Internationale |
| ICACET |
International Cartographic Assn. Committee on Training |
| ICAITI |
Instituto Centro Americano de Investigacion y Tecnica Industrial |
| ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organiztion |
| ICC |
Institut Cartografic de Catalunya; Interstate Commerce Commission (U.S.);
International Cartographic Conference |
| ICCP |
Inst. for Certification of Computer Professionals |
| ICE |
Information Center for the Environment (UCD) |
| ICED |
Intraprofessional Council on Environmental Design |
| ICES |
Institution of Civil Engineers (UK); Initial Graphics Exchange Specifications |
| ICEX |
Ice and Climate Experiment |
| ICGC |
Instituto Cubano de Geodesia y Cartografia |
| ICGWM |
International Clearinghouse for Ground Water Models |
| ICITV |
Institut de la Carte International du Tapis Vegetale |
| ICM |
Instituto Geografico Militar |
| ICMP |
Internet Control Message Protocol |
| ICMSSR |
Interagency Committee on Meteorological Services and Supporting Research |
| ICONA |
Instituto Nacional para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (Spain) |
| ICR |
Intelligent Character Reader |
| ICT |
Information and communication technologies |
| ICW |
International Computer Works, Inc. |
| ID |
Identification; Interface device; Idaho |
| IDAS |
Image Data Analysis Systems |
| IDC |
International Data Corp. |
| IDCCC |
Interior Digital Cartographic Coordination Committee (U.S.) |
| IDD |
Information and data dissemination |
| IDE |
Imbedded Drive Electronics |
| IDEN |
Identification module |
| IDFG |
Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game |
| IDIMS |
Interactive Digital Image Manipulation System |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language; Idaho Dept. of Lands |
| IDLH |
Immediately dangerous to life and health |
| IDR |
Interface drawing |
| IDS |
Information Decision Systems (firm) |
| IDWO |
Intelligence Div., War Office (U.K.) |
| IDWR |
Idaho Dept. of Water Resources |
| IEMVT |
Institut d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux |
| IEP |
Independent electric plant |
| IERS |
International Earth Rotation Service |
| IES |
Inst. for Environmental Sciences |
| IF |
Frame identification |
| IfAG |
Institut fur Angewandte Geodasie |
| IFF |
Interchange Format File (Commodore Amiga) |
| IFLA |
International Assn. of Library Asociations and Institutions |
| IFN |
Service de l'Inventaire Forestier National (France) |
| IFOV |
Instantaneous Field of View |
| IFP |
Institut Francais de Pondicherry; Institut Francais du Petrole |
| IFR |
Instrument Flight Regulation |
| IFREMER |
Institut francais de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer |
| ISFAR |
Inter-ferometric Synehetic Aperture Radar |
| IFSARE |
Inter-ferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Elevation |
| IG |
Instytut Geologiczny (Poland) |
| IGA |
Istituto Geografico de Agostini |
| IGAC |
Instituto Geografico "Agustin Codazzi" |
| IGBF |
Institut Geographique de Burkina Faso |
| IGBP |
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
| IGC |
International Geologic Congress; Intelligent Graphics Controller; Informative Graphics
Corp. |
| IGCI |
Institut Geographique de la Cote d'Ivoire |
| IGCP |
International Geological Correlation Program; Instituto Geografico e Cadastral
(Portugal) |
| IGDC |
Interagency Geographic Data Committee (U.S.) |
| IGDS |
Interactive Graphics Design System (software); Intergraph Design Software |
| IGEBU |
Institut Geographique de Burundi |
| IGES |
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification; International Graphics Exchange System |
| IGF |
Inset Graphics Format |
| IGFCOT |
Institutul de Geodezie, Fotogrammetrie, Cartografie si Organizarea Teritoriului
(Romania) |
| IGG |
Institutul de Geologie si Geofizica (Romania) |
| IGGSP |
Instituto Geografico e Geologico de S~ao Paulo |
| IGIF |
International Geographic Information Foundation |
| IGIS |
Integrated Geographic Information System; Intelligent GIS |
| IGL |
Interactive Graphics Library |
| IGLD 85 |
International Great Lakes Datum of 1985 |
| IGM |
Instituto Geografico Militar |
| IGME |
Inst. of Geology and Mineral Exploration (Greece); Instituto Geologico y Minero de
Espa~na |
| IGMI |
Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano |
| IGN |
Institut geographique national; Instituto Geografico Nacional |
| IGNB |
Institut Geographique National (Belgium) |
| IGNC |
Institut Geographique National Congolaise |
| IGNTG |
Instituto Geografico Nacional "Tommy Guardia" (Panama) |
| IGS |
Information & Graphics Systems Inc.; International GPS Service; Idaho Geological
Survey; Indiana Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Israel |
| IGSN71 |
International Gravity Standardization Net 1971 |
| IGT |
Integrated GPS Technologies Inc. |
| IGU |
International Geographical Union; Instituto Geografico Universitario (Dominican
Republic) |
| IGUG |
Intergraph Graph Users Group |
| IGWMC |
International Ground Water Modeling Center |
| IGY |
International Geophysical Year |
| IGZa |
Institut Geographique du Zaire |
| IHA |
Instituto Hidrografico de la Armada (Chile) |
| IHAC |
Instituto Hidrografico de la Armada, Chile |
| IHB |
International Hydrographic Bureau |
| IHD |
International Hydrological Decade |
| IHGC |
International Health Geographics Conference |
| IHO |
International Hydrographic Organization |
| IHP |
International Hydrologic Program |
| IHSI |
Institut Haitien de Statistique de d'Informatique |
| IIAF |
Idaho Image Analysis Facility |
| IICT |
Instituto de Investigac~ao Cientifica Tropical (Portugal) |
| IIGS |
Initial Image Generating System |
| IIPL |
Interactive Image Processing Laboratory |
| IJC |
International Joint Commission (U.S. & Canada) |
| IKU |
Institutt for Kontinentalsokkelundersokelse (Norway) |
| ILC |
Interim Library Catalog |
| ILEX |
Interactive Landsat Executive (NASA software) |
| ILH |
Internationales Landkartenhaus (Stuttgart) |
| ILI |
Inst. for Land Information |
| ILIM |
Inst. for Land Information Management (University of Toronto) |
| ILLIAC |
Illinois Advanced Computer |
| ILWIS |
Integrated Land and Water Information System (ITC) |
| IM |
Information management |
| IMA |
Intermap Analytic |
| IMACUAC |
Information Management and Computer Utilization Advisory Committee |
| IMAG |
Information Management Advisory Group |
| IMACS |
Integrity Monitoring and Control Software (Javad Positioning Systems) |
| IMAGE |
Integrated Mapping and Geographic Encoding System |
| IMAGE 100 |
Interactive Multispectral Image Analysis System (GE) |
| IMAN |
Image Analysis (system); Intermap Analytic Nucleus |
| IMAP |
Input, Management, Analysis, and Presentation |
| IMC |
Image Motion Compensator |
| IMCoS |
International Map Collectors Society |
| IMDA |
International Map Dealers Assn. |
| .IMG |
ADRG image format (USDMA) |
| IMGW |
Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej (Poland) |
| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
| IMP |
Integrated Micro Products Inc. |
| IMPAC |
Image Analysis Computer Package (Egbert Scientific) |
| IMS |
Intermediate map scale; Image Manipulation System; Internet Map Server (ESRI) |
| IMT |
Information Management Technologies (Firm); Internet Media Type |
| IMTA |
International Map Trade Assn. |
| IMW |
International Map of the World |
| in. |
Inch; inches |
| INC |
Institut National de Cartographie |
| INCG |
Institut National de Cartographie du Gabon; Institut Geographique National Guineen |
| INDEC |
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (Argentina) |
| INE |
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (Ecuador, Guatemala) |
| INEAC |
Institut National pour l'Etude Agronomique du Congo |
| INEGI |
Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas, Geografia e Informatica (Mexico) |
| INETER |
Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales |
| INFORM |
Information Network for Operational Resources Management (Arizona) |
| INGEMMET |
Instituto Geologico Minero y Metalurgico (Peru) |
INGEO-
MINAS |
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Geologico-Mineras (Colombia) |
| INGM |
Instituto Nacional de Geologia |
| INLT |
Inlet |
| INMARSAT |
International Maritime Satellite (organization) |
| INMG |
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofisica (Portugal) |
| INMH |
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia y Hidrologia (Ecuador) |
| INPE |
Instituto das Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil) |
| INQUA |
International Union for Quaternary Research |
| INRA |
Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (France) |
| INRAT |
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie |
| INS |
Inertial Navigation System |
| INSEE |
Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (France) |
| INSMAP |
International Symposium on Marine Positioning |
| Inst. |
Institute |
| INSTAAR |
Inst. of Arctic and Alpine Research (Univ. of Colorado) |
| INTA |
Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (Argentina) |
| INTELSAT |
International Telecommunications Satellite (organization) |
| INTRISCA |
Integrated Resource Inventory for South-Central Alaska |
| INUPAL |
Informaciones Unidas para America Latina (Chile) |
| IO |
Input/output; Interior orientation |
| I/O |
Input/output |
| IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission; Initial operational capability |
| ION |
Inst. of Navigation |
| IOP |
International Organisation of Palaeobotany |
| IOS |
Institute of Oceanographic Science (Great Britain) |
| IP |
Internet protocol; Image point |
| IPA |
Imagery Product Archive (USDMA) |
| IPAM |
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia |
| IPCS |
Image Production Control System |
| IPE |
Image processing engine |
| IPF |
Image Processing Facility (GSFC) |
| IPGP |
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris |
| IPRG |
Inst. for Petroleum Resources and Geophysics (Israel) |
| IPLSA |
Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Assn. |
| IPOSTEL |
Instituto Postal Telegrafico (Venezuela) |
| IPP |
Integrated Plotting Package |
| IPS |
Image processing system; Inertial Positioning System |
| IPT |
Informatica per il Territorio; Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas (Sao Paulo,
Brazil); Integrated Product Team |
| IPX |
Internet Packet Exchange |
| IR |
Imaging Radiometer; Infrared |
| IRAT |
Institut de Recherches en Agronomie Tropicale (France) |
| IRC |
Intergraph Registered Consultant |
| IR. CH. |
Iron chimney |
| IR. CH.S.A. |
Iron chimney with spark arrestor |
| IRD |
Information Resources Division (Arizona) |
| IRDB |
Integrated regional database |
| IRDS |
Information Resource Dictionary System |
| IRF |
Internal Raster File; Internal Raster Format |
| IRG |
Inter-Record Gap |
| IRICC |
Interagency Resource Information Coordination Council |
| IRIS |
Infrared Interferometer/Spectrometer; Interim Research and Intelligence Service (U.S.
Dept. of State) |
| IRIS R&A |
Research and Analysis Branch, Interim Research and Intelligence Service (U.S. Dept. of
State) |
| IRLSA |
Illinois Registered Land Surveyors Assn. |
| IRRI |
International Rice Research Inst. |
| IRS |
Internal Revenue Service (U.S.); Information retrieval system; Indian Remote Sensing
Satellite |
| IRSA |
Inst. of Remote Sensing Applications |
| IRWA |
International Right of Way Assn. |
| IRWD |
Irvine Ranch Water District |
| Is. |
Island |
| IS |
International Standard |
| I.S. |
John Speed |
| ISA |
Institute of Surveyors of Australia; Internet Starter Applications |
| ISABU |
Institut des Sciences Agronomiques au Burundi |
| ISAMS |
Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder |
| ISAPI |
Internet Server Application Programming Interface |
| ISBD(CM) |
International Standard Bibliographic Description for Cartographic Materials |
| ISC |
Information Systems Council |
| ISCEM |
International Society of Curators of Early Maps |
| ISD |
Information Services Div. |
| ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISERT |
Institut Superieur pour les Etudes et Recherches Scientifique et Techniques (Djibouti)
|
| ISGS |
Illinois State Geological Survey |
| ISI |
Image Subsystem Interface; Information Systems Inventory (EPA); Interpretation System,
Inc. |
| I-SITE |
Intelligent Screening of Imagery for Teleophthalmology |
| Isl. |
Island |
| ISL |
Island |
| ISLP |
Land-tied island |
| ISLS |
Islands |
| ISM |
Interpretive Structural Modeling |
| ISMS |
International Society for Mine Surveying |
| ISO |
Imaging Spectrometer Observatory; International Standards Organization |
| ISP |
Internet service provider |
| ISPI |
Intermediate-scale Product Inventory |
| ISPLS |
Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| ISPRS |
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| ISR |
Information Storage and Retrieval |
| IS&T |
Information Systems and Technology |
| ISTAT |
Istituto Centrale di Statistica (Italy) |
| ISTD |
Inter-Services Topographical Dept. (Great Britain) |
| ISTH |
Isthmus |
| ISU |
International System of Units |
| ISURL |
Indiana State Univ. Remote Sensing Laboratory |
| IT |
Information technology; Integration Technologies Inc. |
| I.T. |
Idaho Territory |
| ITAA |
Information Technology Assn. of America |
| ITC |
International Inst. for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (Netherlands; formerly
International Training Centre for Aerial Survey); International Trade Commission |
| ITCA |
International Topographic Composition Assn. |
| ITD |
Interim Terrain Data |
| ITE |
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (Great Britain) |
| ITFE |
Inductive terrain feature extraction |
| ITRF |
International Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| ITRM |
Information Technology Resouces Management (standard, Virginia) |
| ITS |
Intelligent transportation system |
| ITU |
Image Transfer Unit; International Telecommunications Union |
| IUE |
International Ultraviolet Explorer |
| IUGG |
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
| IUGS |
International Union of Geological Sciences |
| IUSM |
International Union for Surveying and Mapping |
| IVHS |
Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems |
| IW |
Information Warfare |
| IWARDS |
Iowa Water Resources Data System |
| IWIS |
International Water Information System |
| IWPC |
Inst. of Water Pollution Control |
| IWRA |
International Water Resources Assn. |
| I2S |
International Imaging Systems Inc. |
| l |
Liter |
| l. |
Links |
| La. |
Louisiana |
| LA |
Land access; Louisiana |
| L.A. |
Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| LAAS |
Local Area Augmentation System |
| LAC |
Litografia Artistica Cartografica |
| LACIE |
Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment |
| LADAR |
Laser Detection and Ranging |
| LAGEO |
Laser Geodynamic Satellite |
| LAGIC |
Louisiana Geographic Information Center |
| LAMP |
Low Altitude Mapping Photogrammetry |
| LAMPS |
Laser-scan Automated Map Production System |
| LAMS |
Large Area Mosaicing Software |
| LAN |
Local area network |
| LAND |
Landmark feature identification number |
| LANDSAT |
Land Satellite |
| LAP |
Landsat Applications Program (PNW) |
| LARIS |
Louisiana Areal Resource Information System |
| LARS |
Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (Purdue Univ.) |
| LARSYS |
Laboratory of Applications of Remote Sensing Image Data Processing System
(Purdue Univ.) |
| LAS |
Land Analysis System |
| LASS |
Land Applications Satellite System (ESA) |
| Lat. |
Latitude |
| LAT |
Large Area Triangulation |
| LAU |
Landesamt fur Umweltschutz (Saarland) |
| LBR |
Laser Beam Recorder |
| LC |
Library of Congress (U.S.); Land cover |
| L/C |
Land cover |
| LCA |
Land cover analysis |
| LCC |
Lambert conformal conic (projection) |
| LCD |
Liquid-crystal displays |
| LCDB |
Land Cover Database |
| LCDC |
Land Conservation and Development |
| LCGMD |
Library of Congress Geography and Map Div. (U.S.) |
| LCS |
Liberian Cartographic Service |
| LCTY |
Locality |
| LDLS |
Lesotho Dept. of Lands, Surveys and Physical Planning |
| LDMG |
Lesotho Dept. of Mines and Geology |
| LDNG |
Landing |
| LEAF |
Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Feedback |
| LEC |
Lockheed Electronics Company |
| LEM |
Landform Elevation Model; Lunar Escape Module |
| LEP |
Linear Error Probable |
| LF |
Large format; Line feed |
| LFC |
Large format camera |
| LFVZ |
Leichtensteinische Fremdenverkehrszentrale |
| lg. |
lang |
| Lg. |
Lange |
| LGN |
Lagoon |
| LGS |
Liberian Geological Survey; Louisiana Geological Survey |
| LGISC |
Louisiana Geographic Information Systems Council |
| LGSOWOG |
Landsat Ground Station Operations Working Group |
| lH |
lichte Hohe |
| LI |
Landmaelingar Islands |
| LIA |
Land Information and Analysis office (USGS) |
LIBER-
Gdc |
Ligue des Biblioth`eques Europeennes de Recherche, Groupe des
cartothecaires |
| LICGF |
Land Information & Computer Graphics Facility (Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison) |
| LIDAR |
Light Detection and Ranging |
| Lieut. |
Lieutenant |
| LIM |
Land identification method; Land Inventory and Management Program (USSCS) |
| LIMAP |
Landsat Imagery Analysis Package (S.Dakota) |
| LINZ |
Land Information New Zealand |
| LIS |
Land information system(s); Landsat Information System; Lightening Imaging
Sensor |
| LISCOM |
Land Information Systems Committee (So. Australia) |
| Lith. |
Lithographed; lithographer |
| LK |
Lake |
| LKB |
Lockwood, Kessler & Bartlett Inc. |
| LKC |
Crater lake |
| LKI |
Intermittent lake |
| LKS |
Lakes |
| LKSC |
Crater lakes |
| LL |
Line-by-line |
| LLA |
Adjusted line length |
| LLC |
Line length code |
| LMCTF |
Land Managers Cooperative Task Force (Alaska) |
| LMIC |
Land Management Information Center |
| LMP |
Land Management Planning |
| LMS |
Large-scale mapping system |
| LMV |
Statens Lantmateriverket (Sweden) |
| LO |
Located object |
| L&O |
Limnology & Oceanography (journal) |
| LOC |
Library of Congress; Landsat Oversight Committee (Colorado) |
| LOGIC |
Loveland Geographic Information/Cartographic System |
| LOMA |
Letters of map amendment |
| LOMC |
Letters of map correction |
| LOMR |
Letters of map revision |
| Lon. |
Longitude |
| LORAN |
Long Range Navigation (system) |
| LOS |
Land Observation Satellite (Japan); Line-of-sight |
| LP |
Line printer |
| LPI |
Lines per inch |
| LPM |
Load point marker |
| LPS |
Library Programs Service (USGPO) |
| LQ |
Letter quality |
| LR |
Laser Retroflector |
| LRD |
Low resolution data |
| LRDA |
Land Resources Data Analysis |
| LRDB |
Low Resolution Data Base |
| LRDC |
Land Resources Development Centre |
| LRIDP |
Land Resources Inventory Demonstration Project (PNW) |
| LRIS |
Land Registration and Information Service (Maritime Provinces); Land
Resource Information System (S.Dakota and N. Carolina) |
| LRITF |
Land Resources Inventory Task Force |
| LRM |
Linear Referencing Method |
| LRR |
Laser Retro-reflector |
| LRS |
Linear Referencing System |
| LRU |
Line Replaceable Unit; Line Replacement Unit |
| L/S |
Landsat |
| LSAW |
Land Surveyors' Assn. of Washington |
| LSD |
Land Surface Datum; Lands and Survey Div. (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| LSDP |
Landsat Signature Development Program (software) |
| LSIT |
Land surveyor in training |
| LSN |
Linear scaling number |
| LSO |
Land Surveyors Online |
| LSPS |
Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors |
| LSR |
Local Space Rectangular |
| LSRP |
Laser Printer |
| Lst |
Ladestelle |
| LST |
Local Standard Time |
| Lt. |
Lieutenant |
| LT |
Less than; Local Time; Linear triangulation |
| LTC |
Light transfer characteristics |
| LTE |
Less than or equal |
| LTTM |
Longterm Terrain Model |
| LTO |
Land Title Office (New Zealand) |
| LU |
Land units |
| L/U |
Land use |
| LUCCAS |
Land Use and Cover Change Analysis System (Pacific Meridian Resources) |
| LUDA |
Land Use and Data Analysis (program); Land use development assistance |
| LU/LC |
Land use, land cover |
| LUM |
Limited update, monoscopic |
| LUMIS |
Land Use Management Information System (JPL software) |
| LUMS |
Land Use Management System |
| LUNR |
Land Use and Natural Resource Information System (N.Y.) |
| LUPIN |
Land Use Planning Information Network (CERES) |
| LUS |
Limited update, stereo |
| LUST |
Leaking underground storage tank |
| LUT |
Land utilization type |
| LVAB-W |
Landesvermessungsamt Baden-Wurttemberg |
| LVAN-W |
Landesvermessungsamt Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| LVAR-P |
Landesvermessungsamt Rheinland-Pfalz |
| LVAS |
Landesvermessungsamt des Saarlandes |
| LVAS-H |
Landesvermessungsamt Schleswig-Holstein |
| lW |
lichte Weite |
| LWD |
Littoral Warfare Data |
| m |
Meter |
| m. |
mittlere |
| M. |
Mile; mille (1,000); Mitte |
| MA |
Mean annual; Maritime Administration |
| MAC |
Mapping Applications Center; Mineralogical Assn. of Canada; Mapping Advisory Committee
|
| MACA |
Ministerio de Asuntos Campesinos y Agropecuarios (Bolivia) |
| MAD |
Management Areas Database; Metro Area Disaster GIS (Oregon) |
| MADM |
Multiple attributes decision-making |
| MAF |
Master address file |
| MAFF |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (U.K.) |
| MAFI |
Magyar Allami Foldtani Intezet = Hungarian Geological Inst. |
| MAG |
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia (Costa Rica, Ecuador) |
| MAGE |
Map Authoring and Generalisation Expert |
| MAGERT |
Map and Geography Round Table (ALA) |
| MAGI |
Maryland Automated Geographic Information System |
| MAGIC |
Map and Geographic Information Center (University of New Mexico) |
| MAGSAT |
Magnetic Field Satellite (U.S.) |
| MALSCE |
Massachusetts Assn. of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers |
| MAP |
Map Analysis Package; Mapping Alliance Program (Space Imaging, Inc.) |
| MAPA |
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentacion (Spain) |
| MAPCAT |
Map catalog |
| MAPDS |
Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Direccion de Suelos (Uruguay) |
| MAPIS |
Map Products Information System |
| MaPKBS |
Map Projection Knowledge-based System |
| MAPPS |
Management Assn. for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors Maps, Aerial Photo and
Publication System |
| MAPS |
Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellite |
| M.A.P.S. |
Microcomputer-based Automated Projection System |
| MAPSAT |
Mapping Satellite (U.S.) |
| MAR |
Mean annual runoff |
| MARC |
Machine Readable Cataloging (LC); Mid-America Remote Sensing Center (Murray State
Univ., KY) |
| MARIS |
Mississippi Automated Resource Information System |
| MARLS |
Missouri Assn. of Registered Land Surveyors; Montana Assn. of Registered Land
Surveyors |
| MAS |
Millimeterwave Atmospheric Sounder |
| MASC |
Map Activity Support Contract |
| Mat-Su |
Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Alaska) |
| MAT |
Medial-axis transformation |
| MAW |
Metropolitan area window |
| mB |
Millibar |
| MB |
Megabyte |
| MBMG |
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology |
| MBPS |
Million bits per second |
| MBR |
Minimum bounding rectangle |
| MC |
Mapping Center |
| MC&G |
Mapping, Charting & Geodesy (U.S. Dept. of Defense) |
| MCD |
Minor civil division; Major civil division |
| MCDM |
Multi-criteria decision-making |
| MCE |
Mapping and Charting Establishment (Canada) |
| MCGA |
Monochrome/Color Graphics Adapter |
| McIDAS |
Map-computer Interactive Data Access System |
| MCIS |
Maps and Chart Information System |
| MCM |
Mid-continent Mapping Center (USGS) |
| MCO |
Mars Climate Orbiter |
| MCS |
Master Control Station |
| MD |
Maryland; Metadata |
| MDA |
Monochrome Display Adapter; MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Inc. |
| MDAS |
Multispectral Data Analysis System (Bendix Corp.) |
| MDC |
Div. de la Cartographie (Morocco) |
| MDD |
Mineral Deposits Div., Geological Assn. of Canada |
| MDG |
Direction de la Geologie (Morroco) |
| MDGLS |
Missouri Div. of Geology and Land Survey |
| MDL |
Measurement Devices Ltd. |
| M.D.M. |
Mount Diablo Meridian |
| MDP |
Master Data Processor |
| MDR |
Minimum Data Recorder |
| MDS |
Metadata standards; Multi-dimensional scaling |
| MDSD |
Mono-Digitizer Stereo-Digitizer |
| MDT |
Mountain Daylight Time |
| MDTC |
Div. de la Topographie et de la Cartographie (Mauritania) |
| M.E. |
Military Engineer; Mining Engineer |
| ME |
Monoscopic Extraction |
| MECM |
Miss~ao de Estudos Cartograficos de Macao |
| MEDEA |
Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis (U.S.) |
| MEDS |
Minimum essential data set |
| MEGRIN |
Multipurpose European Ground Related Information Network |
| mehr-gesch. |
mehrgeschossig |
| MEI |
Maps Etc. Inc. |
| MEIS |
Multispectral Electrooptical Imaging Sensor |
| MEM |
Ministry of Energy and Minerals (Tanzania) |
| MEMPR |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (British Columbia) |
| MENR |
Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| MEOW |
Mono-Extraction Orthophoto Workstation |
| MER |
Minist`ere de l'Energie et des Ressources (Qu‚bec) |
| MERES |
Mineral and Energy Resources Exploration Satellite (Japan) |
| MERIS |
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MERRA |
Michigan Energy and Resources Research Association |
| MESSR |
Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer |
| METSAT |
Meteorological Satellite |
| MEWS |
Mono-Extraction Workstation |
| MFC |
Map Feature Coding |
| MFGDP |
Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products |
| MFLOPS |
Million Floating Points Operations Per Second |
| MFS |
Maine Forest Service |
| MGB |
Mississippi Bureau of Geology |
| MGE |
Microstation GIS Environment (Intergraph); Modular GIS Environment |
| MGG |
Marine Geology and Geophysics Report |
| MGIS |
Micro Geographic Information System |
| MGS |
Maine Geological Survey; Maryland Geological Survey; Minnesota Geological Survey; Mars
Global Surveyor (satellite) |
| MGRS |
Military Grid Reference System |
| MGSD |
Michigan Geological Survey Div. |
| MGSSSR |
Ministerstvo Geologii SSSR |
| MH |
Ministry of Housing (Bahrain) |
| M.H. |
Meierhof = dairy farm |
| MHTD |
Missouri Highway and Transportation Dept. |
| MHW |
Mean High Water |
| MHz |
Megahertz |
| Mi. |
Mile(s) |
| MI |
Michigan; Military Intelligence; Miscellaneous Investigations (map) |
| MIAS |
Multispectral Image Analysis System |
| MIEM |
Minist`ere de l'Industrie et de Mines (Malagasy Republic) |
| MIF |
Main Image File; MapInfo Interchange Format |
| Mil. |
Military |
| MIL |
Map and Imagery Laboratory (Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara); Milli-inch (1 thousandth
of an in.) |
| MILSTRIP |
Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedures (USDMA) |
| MILUS |
Multiple Input Land Use System (JPL software) |
| MIME |
MultiPurpose Internet Mail Extension |
| Min. |
Minute |
| Min. E. |
Mineral Engineer; Mining Engineer |
| Minn. |
Minnesota |
| MIO |
Map Information Office |
| MIPS |
Map and Image Processing System; Million Instructions Per Second; Mini-Image
Processing System |
| MIS |
Management Information System; Map Information System |
| MISR |
Macaulay Institute for Soil Research |
| MITE |
Megapixel Imaging Technology |
| MITES |
Miniature Interferometer Terminals for Earth Survey |
| ML |
Master Library |
| MLA |
Multi-linear array |
| MLHD |
Maximum likelihood (decision functions) |
| MLMIC |
Minnesota Land Management Information Center |
| MLMIS |
Minnesota Land Management Information System |
| MLRA |
Major Land Resource Areas |
| MLTA |
Maine Land Title Assn. |
| MLW |
Mean low water |
| MMKS |
Mjetve Mesimore Kulturore e Sportive "Hamid Shijaku" (Albania) |
| MMQ |
Metric Map Questionnaire |
| MMS |
Metropolitan Map Series; Minerals Management Service (U.S.); Multi-Mission Modular
Spacecraft (U.S.) |
| MMSD |
Metric Mapping Support Data |
| MN |
Magnetic north; Mine |
| MNFS |
Minor frame synchronization |
| MO |
Magnetic-optical disc; Member organization; Missouri; Model orientation |
| MOA |
Minute of angle |
| MODM |
Multiple objectives decision-making |
| MODN |
Module name |
| MODS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MOLDS |
Inst. for Modernization of Land Data Systems |
| MOMS |
Modular Optoelectric Multispectral Scanner |
| M.O.P. |
Ministerio de Obras Publicas |
| MOPU |
Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Urbanismo (Spain) |
| MoRAP |
Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership |
| MOS |
Marine Observation Satellite; Multispectral Optoelectric Scanner |
| MOSS |
Map Overlay and Statistical System |
| MOST |
Moving Objects Spatio-Temporal |
| MOUG |
Map Online Users Group |
| MP |
Measuring point |
| MPE |
Map Publishing Environment |
| MPLIS |
Multipurpose land information system(s) |
| Mpls. |
Minneapolis |
| MPO |
Multiproduct operation |
| MPP |
Multi-spectral scanner preprocessor |
| MPRD |
Modified Proportional Radial Displacement |
| MPRM |
Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (Saudi Arabia) |
| MPWUPH |
Ministry of Public Works, Urban Planning and Housing (Djibouti) |
| MR |
Monoscopic revision |
| MRAC |
Musee Royale de l'Afrique Centrale |
| MRB |
Missouri River Basin |
| MRBC |
Missouri River Basin Commission |
| MRC |
Mississippi River Commission; Map Reference Code (USGS) |
| MRD |
Mineral Resources Div. (Manitoba); Mineral Resources Dept. (Fiji); McCloud Ranger
District |
| MRDB |
Mapping Requirements Data Base System |
| MRI |
Metadata Reference Information; Mediamark Research inc. |
| MRIR |
Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer |
| MRLU |
Map Reproduction and Liaison Unit |
| MRMS |
Maritime Resources Management Service |
| MRS |
Multispectral Resource Sampler |
| MrSID |
Multiresolution Seamless Image Database |
| MRSA |
Major River Systems Analysis |
| MRSH |
Marsh |
| MRWS |
Monoscopic Revision Workstation |
| ms. |
Manuscript |
| MS |
Manuscript; Mean seasonal; Milli-second; Microsoft Corp.; Monochromatic Scanner |
| MSA |
Metropolitan statistical area; Mineralogical Society of America; Maritime Safety
Agency (Japan) |
| MSC |
Map Society of California; Mapping Science Committee (NRC) |
| MSD |
Mapping support data; Malawi Dept. of Surveys; Mauritius Survey Dept. |
| MSDO |
Mapping Support District Office |
| MS-DOS |
MicroSoft Disc Operating System |
| MSE |
Mean square error |
| MSEDB |
Mapping Sciences Education Data Base |
| MSIA |
Mapping Sciences Inst., Australia |
| MSIRI |
Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Inst. |
| MSIS |
Map Separates Information System; Model State Information System |
| MSL |
Mean sea level |
| MSLS |
Maine Society of Land Surveyors |
| MSP |
Multispectral photography |
| .MSP |
Microsoft Paint format |
| MSPE |
Missouri Society of Professional Engineers |
| MSPS |
Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors; Minnesota Society of Professional
Surveyors |
| MSR |
Minimal Spatial Representation |
| MSRLS |
Michigan Society of Registered Land Surveyors |
| MSS |
Multispectral Scanner; Maryland Society of Surveyors |
| MST |
Mountain Standard Time |
| MSTS |
Map Separates Tracking System |
| MSV |
Model and Scenario Visualization |
| Mt. |
Mount; Mountain; Mont |
| MT |
Mountain; Montana |
| MTA |
Major Trading Areas (FCC) |
| MTAE |
Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitutu (Turkey) |
| MTC |
Ministerio de Transporte y Comunicaciones (Venezuela) |
| MTF |
Modulation transfer function |
| Mtn. |
Mountain |
| MTP |
MSS Telemetry Processor |
| MTPE |
Mission to Planet Earth (NASA) |
| MTS |
Mountains |
| MTSAT |
Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (Japan) |
| MTT |
Mobile Training Teams (USDMA) |
| MTU |
Magnetic tape unit |
| MUID |
Map Unit ID [Identification] |
| MURB |
Minister fur Umwelt, Raumordnung und Bauwesen (Saarland) |
| MW |
Megawatt |
| M.W. |
Mittelwasser |
| MWDI |
Master Water Data Index |
| MWF |
Map Window File |
| n. |
nordlich = northern |
| N |
Norden = North |
| N. |
North |
| NA |
National Archives; National Atlas; Not available; Not applicable |
| NABGG |
National Assn. for Black Geologists and Geophysicists |
| NAC |
NASA Advisory Council |
| NACIS |
North American Cartographic Information Society = Sociedad de Informacion Cartografica
Norte Americana |
| NACo |
National Assn. of Counties |
| NACS |
National Assn. of County Surveyors |
| NAD |
North American Datum |
| NAD 27 |
North American Datum of 1927 |
| NAD 83 |
North American Datum of 1983 |
| NADCON |
North American Datum Conversion |
| NADEC |
National Atlas Development Centre (Ghana) |
| NAFSMA |
National Assn. of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies |
| NAGT |
National Assn. of Geoscience Teachers |
| NAHSC |
National Automated Highway System Consortium |
| NAICS |
North American Industry Classification System |
| NAIS |
National Atlas Information Service (Canada) |
| NALMS |
North American Lake Management Society |
| NALS |
Nevada Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| NAP |
Northern Affairs Program (Canada) |
| NAPA |
National Academy of Public Administration |
| NAPP |
National Aerial Photography Program (U.S.) |
| NARA |
National Archives and Records Administration (U.S.) |
| NARC |
National Association of Regional Councils |
| NARL |
Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (Barrow, Alaska) |
| NARS |
National Archives and Records Service (U.S.) |
| NARSA |
National Advanced Remote Sensing Applications Program |
| NAS |
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.); National Airspace System (U.S.) |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.) |
| NASBOG |
National Assn. of State Boards of Geology |
| NASDA |
National Space Development Agency (Japan) |
| NATM |
New Austrian Tunnelling Method |
| NATMAP |
Div. of National Mapping (Australia) |
| NATMO |
Indian National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NAVD |
North American Vertical Datum |
| NAVD 88 |
North American Vertical Datum 1988 |
| NAVOCEAO |
Naval Oceanographic Office (U.S.) |
| Navtech |
Navigation Technology Seminars Inc. |
| NAWQUA |
National Water Quality Assessment |
| NB |
Narrow band |
| Nbf |
Nebenbahnhof |
| NBFU |
National Board of Fire Underwriters |
| NBMG |
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology |
| NBS |
National Biological Survey (U.S.); National Bureau of Standards (U.S.); National Board
of Survey = Maanmittaushallitus (Finland) |
| NBSM |
National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (China) |
| NBTR |
Narrow band tape record(s or -er) |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.) |
| NCARB |
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards |
| NCC |
National Cartographic Centre (Iran) |
| NCDCDS |
National Committee for Digital Cartographic Standards (U.S.) |
| NCDS |
National Cartographic Data Standard |
| NCDSB |
National Cartographic Data Standard Base |
| NCE |
North Coast Engineering |
| NCEE |
National Council of Engineering Examiners |
| NCEES |
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying |
| NCGA |
National Computer Graphics Assn. |
| NCGIA |
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
| NC&GS |
National Charting & Geodetic Survey |
| NCGS |
North Carolina Geological Survey |
| NCIC |
National Cartographic Information Center (U.S.) |
| NCRDS |
National Coal Resources Data System |
| NCS |
National Cartographic Standards |
| NCSD |
Nebraska Conservation and Survey Div. |
| NCSME |
Service des Mines et de l'Energie (New Caledonia) |
| NCSS |
North Carolina Society of Surveyors |
| ND |
North Dakota |
| N-D |
N-dimensional |
| NDAR |
National Directory of Australian Resources |
| NDCDB |
National Digital Cartographic Data Base (USGS) |
| NDCS |
National Digital Cartographic Standards |
| NDF |
Nevada Division of Forestry |
| NDG |
Northern Development Group Inc. |
| NDGPS |
National Differential GPS Network (U.S.) |
| NDGS |
North Dakota Geological Survey |
| NDL |
National Digital Library (Library of Congress) |
| NDLS |
Nauru Directorate of Lands and Survey |
| NDNRC |
Nevada Dept. of Natural Resources and Conservation |
| NDS |
National Decision Systems |
| NDSL |
Nevada Division of State Lands |
| NDSPLS |
North Dakota Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NE |
Northeast |
| NEIS |
National Earthquake Information Service |
| NEL |
National Exploitation Laboratory |
| NEMO |
North East Map Organization |
| NEPAN |
National Environmental Policy Act; National Environmental Protection Act |
| NERDD |
Networked Electronic Report & Document Distribution |
| NESACSM |
New England Section ACSM |
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
| NESS |
National Environmental Satellite Service |
| NESTA |
National Earth Science Teachers Assn. |
| NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar |
| NFAP |
National Forest Applications Program |
| NFDRS |
National Fire Danger Rating System |
| NFFL |
National Forest Fire Laboratory |
| NFIP |
National Flood Insurance Program (U.S.) |
| NRIRA |
National Flood Insurance Reform Act (U.S.) |
| NFS |
National Forest Service (U.S.); National Forest System; Network File System |
| NFWS |
National Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.) |
| NGBN |
National Gravity Base Net (U.S.) |
| NGCS |
National Geodetic and Cartographic Service (Vietnam) |
| NGDC |
National Geophysical Data Center (U.S.); National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse |
| NGDF |
National Geospatial Data Files |
| NGI |
National Geography Inst. = Kungnip Chiriwon (S. Korea) |
| NGIC |
National Geodetic Information Center |
| NGMBD |
National Geologic Map Database (USGS) |
| NGPRP |
Northern Great Plains Resource Program |
| NGRI |
National Geophysical Research Inst. (India) |
| NGRS |
National Geodetic Reference System (U.S.) |
| NGS |
National Geographic Society (U.S.); National Geodetic Survey (U.S.) |
| NGSP |
National Geodetic Satellite Program |
| NGU |
Norges Geologiske Undersokelse |
| NGVD |
National Geodetic Vertical Datum |
| NGVD29 |
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 |
| NGWIC |
National Ground Water Information Center |
| NHAP |
National High Altitude Photography (program) |
| NHLSA |
New Hampshire Land Surveyors Assn. |
| NHPN |
National Highway Planning Network (FHWA) |
| NHS |
National Highway System |
| NI |
Natturfraedistofnun Islands |
| NICMOS |
Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer |
| NII |
National Information Infrastructure |
| NIIGA |
Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii Institut Geologii Artiki (U.S.S.R.) |
| NIMA |
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (U.S.) |
| NIPR |
National Inst. for Polar Research (Japan) |
| NIS |
Nationwide Inpatient Sample (AHCPR) |
| NIST |
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (U.S.) |
| NIUA |
National Inst. of Urban Affairs (India) |
| NIWAR |
National Inst. of Water and Atmosphere Ltd. (New Zealand) |
| NJGS |
New Jersey Geological Survey |
| NJIT |
New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| NJSPLS |
New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| NJSPS |
New Jersey Society of Professional Surveyors |
| NLA |
National Land Agency (Japan) |
| NLAPS |
National Landsat Archive Production Sytem (USGS) |
| NLIS |
National Land Information Service (UK) |
| NLQ |
Near-letter quality |
| NLRB |
National Level Bibliographic Record |
| NLUIS |
Northern Land Use Information Series (Canada) |
| NMAS |
National Map Accuracy Standards |
| NMASM |
New Mexico Assn. of Surveyors and Mappers |
| NMB |
National Mapping Bureau (Papua New Guinea) |
| NMBM&MR |
New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources |
| NMC |
National Map Collection (Canada) |
| NMCC |
National Map Collection of Canada |
| NMD |
National Mapping Div. (USGS) |
| NMF |
Network Mapping Facilities (Firm) |
| NMMC |
National Map Managers Conference |
| NMP |
National Mapping Program |
| NNE |
North northeast |
| NNSS |
Navy Navigational Satellite System |
| NNW |
North north west |
| no |
nordostwarts |
| NO |
Nordosten = northeast |
| N.O. |
New Orleans |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.) |
| NOBS |
Northern Ohio Bibliographic Society |
| NOMS |
Northern Ohio Map Society |
| NOPPA |
National Ocean Pollution Protection Act |
| NORTAD |
North American Transportation Atlas Data |
| NOS |
National Ocean Service (U.S.); National Ocean Survey (U.S.) |
| NOSC |
National Oceans Systems Center |
| NOSS |
National Oceanographic Satellite System (U.S.) |
| NP |
Norsk Polarinstitutt |
| NPF |
Norsk Petroleums-forening = Norwegian Petroleum Society |
| NPIC |
National Photographic Interpretation Center (U.S.) |
| NPOC |
Naval Polar Oceanographic Center (U.S.) |
| NPR |
National Performance Review (U.S.) |
| NPRA |
National Petroleum Reserve (Alaska) |
| NPS |
National Park Service (U.S.); Nonpoint source |
| Nr. |
Nummer = number |
| NRA |
National Recreation Area |
| NRC |
National Research Council; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.) |
| NRCS |
Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA) |
| NRCT |
National Resources Council of Thailand |
| NRDD |
Natural Resources Data Directory (NSW); National Resources Data Directory (Australia) |
| NRI |
National Resources Inventory (SCS) |
| NRIC |
National Resource Information Centre (Australia) |
| NRIS |
National Resource Information System |
| NRO |
National Reconnaissance Office (U.S.) |
| NRS |
National Reference System (U.S.) |
| NRSA |
National Remote Sensing Agency (India) |
| NRSC |
National Remote Sensing Centre (U.K.) |
| NRSL |
Northern Remote Sensing Laboratory (Univ. of Alaska) |
| NRWS |
Narrows |
| NS |
Not sprinklered |
| NSA |
National Security Agency |
| NSAPI |
Netscape Server Application Programming Interface |
| NSC |
National Space Council (U.S.); National Security Council (U.S.); National Society of
Cartographers |
| NSD |
Nepal Survey Dept. |
| NSDC |
National Spatial Data Council (U.S.) |
| NSDI |
National Spatial Data Infrastructure; National Spatial Data Information |
| NSDNR |
Nova Scotia Dept. of Natural Resources |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation (U.S.) |
| NSGIC |
National States Geographic Information Council |
| NSKV |
Norges Sjokartverk |
| NSLAB |
Niedersachsisches Landesamt fur Bodenforschung |
| NSLVA |
Niedersachsisches Landesverwaltungsamt |
| NSN |
National Satellite Network |
| NSPE |
National Society of Professional Engineers |
| NSPS |
National Society of Professional Surveyors |
| NSRFC |
Nova Scotia Research Foundation Corp. |
| NSRS |
National Spatial Reference System (NOAA) |
| NSS |
National Soil Survey (Ireland); National Speleological Society; Navigational Safety
System |
| NSTL |
National Space Technology Laboratory |
| NSW |
New South Wales |
| NTAD |
National Transportation Atlas Data (U.S.) |
| NTD |
National Topographic Database (OS) |
| NTDB |
National Topographic Data Base (Canada) |
| NTDL |
Northern Territory Dept. of Lands (Australia) |
| NTDME |
Dept. of Mines and Energy (Northern Territory, Australia) |
| NTF |
National Transfer Format (U.K.) |
| NTIS |
National Technical Information Service (U.S.) |
| NTM |
Notice to Mariners |
| NTPS |
National Transportation Planning System |
NTS
|
National Topographic Series (Canada); National Topographic System (Canada); Navigation
Technology Satellite; Nevada Test Site |
| NTSB |
National Transportation Safety Board (U.S.) |
| NUC |
National Union Catalog |
| NUC CM |
National Union Catalog, Cartographic Material |
| NURE |
National Uranium Resources Evaluation (program) |
| NV |
Nevada |
| NVCN |
National Vertical Control Network (U.S.) |
| nw |
nordwestlich |
| NW |
Northwest; Nordwesten |
| N.W. |
Niedrigwasser |
| NWA |
National Water Alliance |
| NWFP |
North West Frontier Province (Pakistan) |
| NWI |
National Wetlands Inventory (USFWS); National Wilderness Inventory (Australia) |
| NWS |
National Weather Service (NOAA) |
| NWSCA |
National Water and Soil Conservation Authority (New Zealand) |
| NY |
New York |
| N.Y. |
New York |
| N.Y.C. |
New York City |
| NYPL |
New York Public Library |
| NYSAPLS |
New York State Assn. of Professional Land Surveyors |
| NYSDOT |
New York State Dept. of Transportation |
| NYSDT |
New York State Dept. of Transportation |
| NYSGS |
New York Geological State Geological Survey |
| N.Z. |
New Zealand |
| NZFS |
New Zealand Forest Service |
| NZGD |
New Zealand Geophysics Div. |
| NZGS |
New Zealand Geological Survey |
| NZMG |
New Zealand Map Grid |
| NZMS |
New Zealand Dept. of Lands and Survey |
| NZOI |
New Zealand Oceanographic Inst. |
| NZSB |
New Zealand Soil Survey |
| o |
ostwarts |
| O |
Osten = east |
| OAB |
Operational advisory broadcasts |
| OAC |
Osterreichischer Automobil Club |
| OACH |
Office of the Assistant Chief Hydrologist |
| OADCES |
On-line Aerotriangulation Data Collection and Editing System |
| OAdW |
Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| OAMTC |
Osterreichischer Automobil-, Motorrad- und Touring-Club |
| OAS |
Orbit Adjustment Subsystem; Organization of American States |
| OASIS |
Oceanic and Atmospheric Scientific Information System |
| Obj. |
Objekt |
| OBM |
Ontario Basic Mapping Program |
| OBRP |
Object representation |
| OBS |
Office of Biological Services |
| OCAP |
Ohio Capability Analysis Project |
| OCE |
Office of the Chief of Engineers |
| OCH |
Office of the Chief Hydrologist |
| OCLC |
Ohio College Library Center |
| OCR |
Optical Character Recognition; Optical Character Reader |
| OCRS |
Ontario Centre for Remote Sensing |
| OCS |
Office of Cadastral Survey (BLM); Operational Control System; Outer Continental Shelf;
Ocean Color Scanner |
| OCTS |
Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner |
| OD |
Optical disc; Outside diameter |
| ODBC |
Operational Database Connectivity |
| ODE |
Open development environment |
| ODF |
Oregon Dept. of Forestry |
| ODFW |
Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife |
| ODGMI |
Oregon State Dept. of Minerals and Mineral Industries |
| ODGS |
Ohio Div. of Geological Survey |
| ODOP |
Ohio Digital Orthophotography Project |
| ODOT |
Ohio Dept. of Transportation |
| OEEPE |
Organisation europeene d'etudes en photogrammetrie experimentale |
| OESA |
Office of Earth Science Applications |
| OF |
Open file; Open-file |
| Offn. |
Offnung = aperture, opening |
| OFIPLAN |
Oficina de Planificacion Nacional (Costa Rica) |
| OFR |
Open file report; Open-file report |
| OFSS |
Open-file Services Section |
| OGC |
Open GIS Consortium, Inc. |
| OGDI |
Open Geospatial Datastore Interface |
| OGIS |
Open GIS |
| OGRIP |
Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program |
| OGS |
Ontario Geological Survey; Oklahoma Geological Survey |
| OGW |
Office of Ground Water |
| OGWP |
Office of Ground Water Protection (EPA) |
| OHW |
Office of Hazardous Wastes Hydrology |
| OIA |
Office of International Activities |
| OIG |
Office of International Geology |
| OIH |
Office of International Hydrology |
| OILT |
Oil tank farm |
| OK |
Okonomisk kart (Norway); Osterreichische Karte |
| OKAGE |
Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education |
| OLAP |
Online analytical processing |
| OLE |
Object Linking/Embedding |
| OLS |
Operational Line Scan (imaging system); Ordinary Least Squares |
| OMNR |
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources |
| OMO |
Other mapping organization |
| OMTC |
Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications |
| ON |
Original negative |
| ONC |
Operational Navigation Chart |
| ONERN |
Oficina Nacional de Evaluacion de Recursos Naturales (Peru) |
| ONIG |
Office Nationale de la Geologie (Algeria) |
| ONPR |
Office of National Petroleum Reserve (USGS) |
| OO |
Object-Orientation |
| OOPEC |
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities |
| OOSI |
Osterreichisches Ost- und Sudosteuropa-Institut |
| OPAC |
Online public access catalog; online patron access catalog |
| OPCS |
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (U.K.) |
| OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OPL |
Oilfield Publications |
| OPP |
Operational Positional Procedure |
| OPR |
Office of Planning and Research |
| OPS |
Optical sensor(s) |
| OR |
Oregon |
| OQ |
Orthophoto quadrangle |
| ORH |
Office of the Regional Hydrologist |
| ORID |
Ortho Rectified Image Data |
| ORRH |
Office of the Regional Research Hydrologist |
| ORSER |
Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources (Penn. State Univ.) |
| ORSTOM |
Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre Mer |
| OS |
Ordnance Survey (U.K.); Object space; Operating System |
| OSCAR |
Online Satellite Catalog and Request System (NOAA) |
| OSD |
Overseas Surveys Directorate (U.K.); Office of the Secretary of Defense (U.S.);
On-screen display |
| OSDA |
Oregon State Dept. of Agriculture |
| OSEC |
Ocean Systems Engineering Corp. |
| OSEDA |
Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis (Missouri) |
| OSFD |
Oregon State Forestry Dept. |
| OSGB |
Ordnance Survey (U.K.) |
| OSI |
Open Systems Interconnect model; Open Systems Interconnection |
| OSIP |
Operational Satellite Improvement Program |
| OSLS |
Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors |
| OSM |
Office of Surface Mining |
| OSNI |
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland |
| OSOA |
Optimal Statistical Objective Analysis |
| OSP |
Office of State Planning |
| OSS |
Office of Strategic Services (U.S.) |
| OSSI |
Optronic Sensor for Stereo Imagery |
| OSTA |
Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications (NASA) |
| OSTF |
Ordnance Survey Transfer Format |
| OSTZ |
Osterreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt |
| OSU |
Oregon State University |
| OSW |
Office of Saline Water; Office of Surface Water |
| OTA |
Office of Technology Assessment |
| OTC |
Over-the-counter; Office for Topography and Cartography (Tunisia) |
| OTF |
On-the-fly |
| OTH |
Over the horizon |
| OTHT |
Over the horizon targeting |
| O.U. |
Open under |
| OUCLS |
Ontario Universities' Library Cooperative System |
| OUO |
Official use only |
| OVN |
Optical visible near-infrared |
| OW |
Oil well |
| OWDC |
Office of Water Data Coordination |
| OWRD |
Oregon Water Resources Dept. |
| OWRR |
Office of Water Resources and Research |
| OWRT |
Office of Water Research and Technology |
| P |
Precision |
| PAA |
Priority abatement areas |
| PAAD |
Program Acronyms, Abbreviations and Definitions |
| PAC |
Photo Annotation/Classification; Publications Advisory Committee (WAML) |
| PACOG |
Pueblo Area Council of Governments |
| PACON |
Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology |
| PADCO |
Planning and Development Cooperative International |
| PAGIS |
Planning and Geographic Information Systems (Hawaii); Pulaski (County, Ark.) Area
Geographic Information System |
| PAIGH |
Pan-American Inst. of Geography and History |
| PAL |
Prime agricultural lands |
| PALIS |
Ponds and Lakes Information System |
| PAM |
Port-A-Meter; Point access methods |
| PAN |
Polska Akademia Nauk |
| PAPS |
Pooled Analytical Plotter System |
| PAS |
Pacific Aerial Surveys |
| PASDA |
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access system |
| PASP |
Planning and Analysis Section |
| PAT |
Polygon Attribute Table |
| PAVE |
Package for Analysis and Visualization of Environmental Data |
| Pbf |
Personenbahnhof = Passenger railway station |
| PBM |
Portable Bitmap (format) |
| PBO |
Performance-based organization |
| PC |
Personal Computer; Principal components |
| PCC |
Professional competency credit |
| PC-DOS |
Personal Computer-Disc Operating System |
| PCGN |
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use |
| PCH |
Professional competency hour |
| PCLI |
Independent political entity (republic) |
| P-Code |
Precise code; Protected code |
| .PCX |
PC Paintbrush Export Format |
| PD |
Precision digitizing; Publications Div. (USGS) |
| PDA |
Personal digital assistant; Portable data access |
| P&DC |
Printing & Distribution Center |
| PDF |
Platform Data File; Portable Document Format |
| PDH |
Professional development hour |
| PDL |
Page Description Language; Positioning Data Link (Pacific Crest Corp.) |
| PDQ |
Public Data Queries, Inc. |
| PDR |
Preliminary Design Review (U.S. government) |
| PDT |
Pacific Daylight Time; Precision digitizing table |
| PDU |
Professional development unit |
| PDWS |
Precision digitizing workstation |
| P.E. |
Photogrammetric Engineer; Professional Engineer |
| PECG |
Professional Engineers in California Government |
| PEN |
Peninsula |
| Pers. |
Personen |
| PE&RS |
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (journal) |
| PES |
Post enumeration survey |
| Pf. |
Pfeiler |
| PFLP |
Point-feature label placement |
| PGM |
Permanent ground monument |
| .PGM |
Portable Graymap (format) |
| PG/S |
Product Generation Segment |
| P.H. |
Power house |
| PHC |
Probable hydrologic consequences |
| PHIGS |
Programmer Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System |
| PHODIS |
Photogrammetric Image Processing System (Carl Zeiss Inc.) |
| PI |
Pseudo intelligence; Photo interpretation |
| PIC |
Public Information Center |
| .PIC |
Lotus 1-2-3 Picture Format |
| PICG |
Programme International de Correlation Geologique |
| PID |
Photoionization detector; Permanent station identifier |
| PIDL |
Polygon ID left |
| PIDR |
Polygon ID right |
| PIG |
Panstwowy Instytut Geologiczny (Poland) |
| PIN |
Parcel identification number |
| PIO |
Public Inquiries Office (USGS) |
| PIOS |
Polygon Information Overlay System (ESRI) |
| Pixel |
Picture element |
| PK |
Peak |
| PKM |
Penyiasatan Kajimbumi Malaysia; Professional Kansas Mapper |
| PKS |
Peaks |
| PL |
Programming language; Public law |
| PLAT |
Plateau |
| PLF |
Point Location File |
| PLGR |
Precision lightweight GPS receiver |
| PLN |
Plain |
| PLOT |
Plotting (software) |
| PLS |
Professional Land Surveyor |
| PLSC |
Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado |
| PLSO |
Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon; Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio |
| PLSS |
Public Land Survey System (U.S.) |
| PMA |
Production and Marketing Administration (USDA) |
| PM/S |
Production Management Segment |
| PMSA |
Primary metropolitan statistical area |
| PMT |
Positive media transfer; Photomultiplier tube |
| PND |
Pond |
| PNDI |
Intermittent pond |
| .PNG |
Portable Network Graphics (format) |
| PNRC |
Pacific Northwest Regional Commission |
| PNDS |
Ponds |
| PNRS |
Preliminary Natural Resources Survey |
| PNW |
Pacific Northwest |
| PO |
Photogrammetric Operations; Post office |
| P&O |
Plans & Operations |
| POAM |
Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement |
| POC |
Point of contact; Point of control |
| POES |
Polar-Orbiting Satellites (NOAA) |
| POLYID |
Polygon identification number |
| POS |
Point-of-scale |
| POSIX |
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments (UNIX) |
| POTS |
Pan-only Triangulation System |
| PP |
Proof plot; Proof plotter |
| PPB |
Parts per billion |
| PPDB |
Point Positioning Data Base |
| PPGIS |
Public participation GIS |
| PPL |
Populated place |
| PPM |
Portable Pixelmap (format) |
| PPMS |
Photogrammetry Production Monitoring System |
| PPNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| PPNM |
Pengarah Pemetaan Negara, Malaysia |
| PPP |
Point-to-point (protocol account, for email connections) |
| PPPG |
Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Geologi |
| PPS |
Precise Positioning Service; Photographic Processing System |
| PPSS |
Precise Positioning Service Security Module |
| PPWK |
Panstwowe Przedsiebiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych (Poland) |
| PR |
Photo revision; Precipitation Radar; Pattern recognition |
| PRF |
Point response function |
| PRIM |
Primary Map (inventory) |
| PRO |
Public Record Office (U.K.) |
| PROSIX |
Production System (USGS) |
| PROSYS |
Production System--UNIX (USGS) |
| PS |
Plot Services; Point source; PostScript; Paleontological Society; Polar stereographic
(projection) |
| PSA |
Paciulli, Simmons & Associates Ltd. |
| PSAN |
Professional Surveyors Assn. of Nebraska |
| PSCOG |
Puget Sound Council of Governments |
| PSI |
Planning Systems, Inc. |
| PSLS |
Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors |
| PSMA |
Professional Services Management Assn. |
| PSSC |
Public Service Satellite Corp. |
| PST |
Pacific Standard Time |
| PSU |
Primary sampling unit |
| PT |
Point |
| PTC |
Positive train control |
| Pts. |
Points |
| PUBGRF90 |
TIGER Geographic Reference File Names, 1990 |
| PUG |
Petroleum Users Group (ESRI) |
| PUMS |
Public Use Micro-Data Sample |
| PURL |
Persistent URL software |
| PVT |
Position, Velocity and Time |
| r. |
rechts |
| R |
Range; Release; Ruin |
| R&A OSS |
Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services (U.S.) |
| RAD |
Rapid development application |
| RAID |
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
| RAIM |
Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (GPS) |
| RALI |
Resource and Land Information; Resource and Land Investigations (program LIA) |
| RALS |
Random access logical subfiles |
| RAM |
Random access memory |
| RAP |
Regional applications program |
| RAS |
Remote Analysis Systems |
| RASC |
Royal Australian Survey Corps. |
| RATP |
Regie autonome des transports parisiens |
| RBDS |
Radio broadcast data system |
| RBE |
Rule-Base Engine |
| RBI |
River Basin Investigation |
| RBMS |
Relational Database Management System |
| RBV |
Return Beam Vidicon |
| RCA |
Radio Corporation of America |
| RCC |
Regional census center |
| RCH |
Reach |
| RCIC |
Regional Coastal Information Center |
| RCID |
Record ID [Identification] |
| RCRA |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
| RCS |
Research Camera System |
| RCSSMRS |
Regional Centre for Services in Surveying and Mapping and Remote Sensing (Nairobi) |
| RCWD |
Rancho California Water District |
| R&D |
Research and development |
| RDBMS |
Relational database management system |
| RDGE |
Ridge |
| RDI |
Resource Data International Inc. |
| RDS |
Radio data system |
| RDTS |
Research and Development Tracking System (BLM) |
| RE |
Royal Engineers (U.K.) |
| REA |
Rural Electrification Administration (U.S.) |
| REAP |
Regional Environmental Applications Program (N. Dakota) |
| REC |
Recompile(d) |
| RE COMP |
Recompile |
| RECOMP |
Recompilation |
| REDI |
Real Estate Data Inc. |
| Reichsb |
Reichsbahn |
| Reichsbf |
Reichsbahnhof |
| RELOS |
Regional Locator System |
| RepCode |
Representation Code |
| RESCU |
Remote Emergency Satellite Cellular Unit |
| RESTEC |
Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan |
| RET |
Rotterdamsche Electrische Tram |
| RETSAM |
Review, Editing and Tagging Software for Automated Mapping |
| REU |
Resources Evaluation Unit (USFS) |
| Rev |
Revised |
| REVPG |
Revision and Product Generation System |
| RF |
Representative fraction; Reef |
| RfC |
Reference concentration |
| RFPMG |
Radar Fixed Point Minigraphic |
| RGB |
Red-green-blue |
| Rgbf |
Rangierbahnhof = Shunting station |
| RGD |
Rijks Geologische Dienst (Netherlands) |
| RGS |
Royal Geographical Society (U.K.) |
| RH |
Regional hydrologist; Relative humidity |
| RIAI |
Royal Inst. of Architects of Ireland |
| RICS |
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (U.K.) |
| RIG |
RETSAM/Intergraph/Giant |
| RIJP |
Rijksdienst voor de IJsselmeerpolders (Netherlands) |
| RIN |
Realty Information Network |
| RINEX |
Receiver Independent Exchange (GPS data format) |
| RIP |
Raster Image Processing; Raster Image Processor; Road Inventory Program |
| RIPS |
Remote Image Processing System; Remote Information Processing System |
| RIRT |
Russian Inst. of Radionavigation and Time |
| RIS |
Rapid Imaging Software; Retroreflector in Space |
| RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RKSW |
Rocks in water |
| RKW |
Rock in water |
| RL |
Rannsoknastofnun Landbunadarins (Iceland) |
| RLE |
Run-length encoded |
| RM |
Replacement mapping |
| RMA |
Reliability, Maintainability and Availability |
| RMCA |
Road Map Collectors of America |
| RMK |
R.M. Keddal & Associates, Inc. |
| RMM |
Rocky Mountain Mapping Center (USGS) |
| RMSE |
Root mean squared error |
| RMT |
Remotely measured target |
| RNRC |
Renewable Natural Resources Center |
| RNRF |
Renewable Natural Resources Foundation |
| RO |
Range only |
| RODOBRAS |
Comiss~ao Especial construc~ o da Rodovia Belem-Brasilia |
| ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
| ROMANSE |
Road Management System for Europe |
| ROMP |
Regional Observation Monitoring (well) Program |
| ROP |
Raster operations processor |
| R-O-W |
Right-of-Way |
| RP |
Reference point |
| RPDS |
Rapids |
| RPE |
Regional political ecology |
| RPID |
Representation module ID |
| RPIE |
Replacement Photographic Image Equipment |
| RQA |
River Quality Assessment |
| RPMIS |
Real Property Management Information System |
| RPP |
RBV Preprocessor |
| RPU |
Remote positioning unit |
| RRDS |
Reduced Resolution Data Set |
| RRH |
Regional Research Hydrologist |
| R/S |
Remote sensing |
| RSAL |
Remote Sensing Applications Laboratory (Univ. of Washington) |
| RSC/TAMU |
Remote Sensing Center/Texas A&M Univ. |
| RSI |
Remotely Sensed Imagery; RADARSAT International Remote Sensing Institute (S.Dakota
State Univ.) |
| RSIP |
Remote Sensing and Image Processing |
| RSRP |
Remote Sensing Research Program (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) |
| RSRT |
Resort |
| RSSC |
Remote Sensing Science Council |
| RST |
Representation Style Table |
| RSTF |
Remote Sensing Task Force |
| RSTN |
Railroad station |
| RSV |
Reservoir |
| RSVP |
Resource reservation protocol |
| RT |
Radio tower; Real time; Remote terminal |
| RTA |
Regional Transport Authority (Illinois) |
| RTCM |
Radio Technical Commission for Maritime (format) |
| RTF |
Rich Text Format |
| RT-GPS |
Real-time Differential GPS |
| RTK |
Real-time kinematic; Right-to-Know Network |
| RTP |
Real Time Positioning |
| R&TS |
Research & Technical Standards |
| RTSD |
Royal Thai Survey Dept. |
| RTSI |
Routing Technology Software Inc. |
| RTTK |
Real Time TurboKinematic (Allen Obsobne Associates) |
| RTV |
Raster to vector |
| RUIN |
Ruins |
| RUIS |
San Diego Regional Urban Information System |
| RUS |
Rest of the U.S. |
| RV |
Reise- und Verkehrsverlag |
| R-VIS |
Reality Visualization |
| RVP |
Raster-to-vector processor; Radar Verification Programme |
| s. |
Sculpsit (engraver); sudlich = southern, southerly |
| S |
Secret; Store; Suden = south |
| SA |
Selected availability; Selective availability; Signal accuracy; Situational awareness;
Source acquisition |
| S&A |
Sampling and analysis |
| SAA |
Southern Appalachian Assessment (GIS database) |
| SAC |
Sectional aeronautical chart |
| SACC |
Spatial Analysis Coordinating Committee |
| SADIE |
System at Arizona for Digital Information Extraction |
| SADL |
South Australia Dept. of Lands |
| SADME |
South Australian Dept. of Mines and Energy |
| SADR |
Spatial address |
| SAE |
Survey Agro Ekonomi (Indonesia) |
| SAF |
Society of American Foresters |
| SAGA |
Short Arc Geodetic Adjustment (doppler) |
| SAGEEP |
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems |
| SAIC |
Science Applications International Corp. |
| SaLIS |
Surveying and Land Information Systems (journal) |
| SALT |
Salina |
| SAM |
Spatial access methods |
| SAMAB |
Southern Appalachian Man and Biosphere (project) |
| SAMSOG |
Surveying and Mapping Society of Georgia |
| SANAIS |
South African Natural Areas Information System |
| SAR |
Synthetic aperture radar |
| SA/S |
Source Aquisition Segment |
| SAST |
Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team (U.S.) |
| SAT |
Small area triangulation |
| SAW |
Spill analysis workstation; Surface acoustic wave |
| SAZU |
Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti = Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Art |
| SB |
Survey of Bangladesh |
| SBCDP |
Small Business Competitiveness Demonstration Program (U.S.) |
| SBM |
Surveys and Mapping Branch (Manitoba) |
| SBUV |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (spectrometer) |
| sc. |
Sculpsit = engraver |
| S/C |
Spacecraft |
| SCADA |
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition |
| SCAMP |
Southern California Aerial Mapping Project |
| SCAR |
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
| SCB |
Statistika Centralbyran (Sweden) |
| SCC |
Servico de Cartografia e Cadastro (Macao); SoftCopy Catalog (USDMA) |
| SCCAMA |
Southern California Computer Aided Mapping Assn. |
| SCD |
Source Control Drawing; Specification Control Drawing |
| SCEP |
Servico Cartografico do Exercito (Portugal) |
| SCERP |
Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy |
| SCGP |
Societe Canadienne des Geologique Petroliers |
| SCGS |
South Carolina Geological Survey |
| Sch |
School |
| SCH |
School |
| Scheit-elst. |
Scheitelstarke |
| Schl. |
Schloss = castle |
| SCO |
State Cartographer's Office (Wisconsin) |
| SCOOP |
Schedule Control of Orthophoto Products |
| SCOPE |
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment |
| SCR |
Service Cartographique du Rwanda |
| SCS |
Soil Conservation Service (USDA) |
| SCSA |
Standard Consolidated Statistical Area; Soil Conservation Society of America |
| SCSI |
Small computer system interface |
| SCSMAC |
South Carolina State Mapping Advisory Committee |
| SCSPLS |
South Carolina Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| sct. |
Sculpsit (engraver) |
| SCTRAP |
South Carolina Toxic Risk Atlas Project |
| sculp. |
Sculpsit (engraver) |
| SCWRC |
South Carolina Water Resources Commission |
| SD |
South Dakota |
| S.D. |
South Dakota |
| SDB |
Spatial data base |
| SDE |
Spatial Database Engine (ESRI) |
| SDES |
Spatial Data Exchange Standard |
| SDG |
Survey Dept. Ghana |
| SDGS |
South Dakota Geological Survey |
| SDH |
Spatial data handling |
| SDI |
Selected Dissemination of Information |
| SDL |
Survey Dept. of Libya |
| SDLC |
Synchronous Data-Like Control; System Development Life Cycle |
| SDMG |
Direction des Mines et de la Geologie (Senegal) |
| SDNR |
State Dept. of Natural Resources |
| SDOI |
Spatial Data Organization Information |
| SDPS |
Spatial Data Production System |
| SDRW |
Societe de Developpement Regional pour la Wallonie |
| SDS |
Swaziland Dept. of Surveys; Simplicial data structure |
| SDSB |
Satellite Data Services Branch (NOAA) |
| SDSS |
Spatial decision support systems |
| SDTP |
Spatial data transfer processor |
| SDTS |
Spatial Data Transfer Standard |
| SDUK |
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge |
| SE |
Southeast |
| SEAMS |
Soil, Environmental, and Agricultural Management System (Univ. of Florida Dept. of
Soil and Water) |
| SEASAT |
Sea Satellite (U.S.) |
| SEATO |
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
| SECFT |
Sociedad Espa~nola de Cartografia, Fotogrametria y Teledeteccion |
| SEDAC |
Socioeconomic Data and Application Center |
| SEDESOL |
Secretaria de Dessarrollo Social (Mexico) |
| SEDUE |
Secretaria de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecologia (Mexico) |
| SEG |
Society of Economic Geologists; Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
| S.E.O.P. |
Secretaria de Estado de Obras Publicas (Argentina) |
| SEOS |
Stationary Earth Orbit Satellite |
| SEPA |
State Environmental Protection Agency |
| SEPM |
Society for Sedimentary Geology |
| SERIES |
Satellite Emission Range Inferred Earth Surveying |
Serna-
geomin |
Servicio Nacional Geologia y Mineria (Chile)
|
| SES |
Standalone Edit Stations |
| SESCPF |
Service d'Etude des Sols et de la Carte Pedalogique de France |
| SEVIRI |
Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
| SEWUG |
Southeastern Water Use Group |
| S.F. |
San Francisco |
| SfBWW |
Senator fur Bau- und Wonungswesen (Berlin) |
| SFHA |
Special Flood Hazard Area |
| SFQL |
Structured Full-text Query Language |
| SfSU |
Senator fur Stadtentwicklung und Umweltschutz (Berlin) |
| SGA |
Societe Geoscientifique de l'Atlantique; State Geologic Agencies; Service Geologique
de l'Armee (Syria) |
| SGB |
Service Geologique Belgique; Servicio geologico de Bolivia |
| SGCB |
State Geodesy and Cartography Board (Mongolia) |
| SGD |
Solar Geophysical Data (journal); Symbolized Graphic Data; Surveyor General's
Dept. (South West Africa) |
| SGE |
Servicio Geografico del Ejercito (Spain) |
| SGG |
Service Geologique du Gabon |
| SGpK |
Schweizerische Geophysikalische Kommission |
| SGI |
Servicio Geologico d'Italia; Silicon Graphics workstation |
| SGK |
Schweizerische Geologische Kommission |
| SGL |
Service Geologique de Luxembourg |
| SGM |
Servicio Geografico Militar (Uruguay) |
| SGML |
Standard generalized markup language |
| SGN |
Servicio Geologico Nacional (Argentina, Nicaragua); Service Geographique National
(Laos) |
| SGS |
Stanford Geological Survey |
| SGtK |
Schweizerische Geotechnische Kommission |
| SGU |
Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning; Savezna Geodetska Uprava (Yugoslavia) |
| SHA |
State Highway Administration (Maryland) |
| SHAPE |
Systematic Horizontol Adjustment of Positional Errors |
| SHDSL |
Symmetric High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| SHEF |
Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format |
| SHN |
Servicio de Hidrografia Naval (Argentina) |
| SHOALS |
Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne LIDAR System (USCE) |
| SHOL |
Shoal |
| SHOM |
Service Hydrographique et Ocenographique de la Marine (France) |
| SHORAN |
Short-range Navigation (system) |
| SHS |
Surveyors Historical Society |
| S., I. |
John Speed |
| SI |
Survey of India; Survey of Israel |
| SIAC |
Spatial Information and Analysis Consortium |
| SIAN |
Service d'information de l'atlas nationale (Canada) |
| SIAT |
Special Image Annotation Tape |
| SIB |
Solar Indices Bulletin |
| SIC |
Standard Industrial Classification |
| SICC |
Surveying Instrumentation and Coordinate Computation |
| SICO |
Schonstedt Intstrument Company |
| SICOM |
South Australian Spatial Information Committee |
| SID |
Scanned Image Data; South Australian Spatial Information Directory |
| SIF |
Standard Interchange Format (Intergraph) |
| SIG |
Sistemas de informacion geografica; Special interest group |
| SIGACE |
Special Interest Group for the Application of CD-ROM in Education |
| SIGCAT |
Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications & Technology (U.S.) |
| SIGGRAPH |
Special Interest Group on Graphics (ACM) |
| SIGIT |
Swedish Institute for Geographic Information Technology |
| SIGLIT |
Special Interest Group on Library Information Technology (U.S.) |
| SIGS |
Solomon Islands Geological Survey |
| SIGSA |
Sistemas de Informacion Geografica S.A. |
| SIM |
Spatial interaction model |
| SIP |
Scanner Interface Processor |
| SIPES |
Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists |
| SIR |
Shuttle Imaging Radar; Space Imaging Radar (NASA); Surveys, Investigations and
Research (USGS) |
| SIRS |
Satellite Infrared Spectrometer |
| SIRU |
Soils and Irrigation Research Unit (South Africa) |
| SIS |
Standard Indexing System (DOD aerial photography); Spatial Information Systems
(Computer Aided Development Corp.) |
| SISMD |
Solomon Islands Survey and Mapping Div. |
| SK |
Survey of Kenya; Slovenska Kartografia |
| SKV |
Statens Kartverk (Norway) |
| s.l. |
Sine loco = without place (of publication) |
| SLA |
Special Libraries Assn. |
| SLAC |
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| SLAGMD |
Special Libraries Assn. Geography & Map Div. |
| SLAP |
Soils Landscape Analysis Project; Supplemental Low Altitude Photography |
| SLAR |
Side-Looking Airborne Radar |
| SLAT |
Spacecraft Location/Attitude Tape |
| SLD |
Slope-Line Detection |
| SLD29 |
Sea Level Datum of 1929 |
| SLF |
Standard Linear Format |
| SLG |
Symbolized Line Graph; Synthetic Line Generation |
| SLGSD |
Sri Lanka Geological Survey Dept. |
| SLIP |
Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SLM |
Structure line model |
| SLP |
Slope(s) |
| SLR |
Satellite Laser Ranging; Side-looking Radar |
| SLSD |
Sri Lanka Survey Dept. |
| SLSI |
Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa |
| SLUPD |
Swaziland Land Use Planning Dept. |
| sm |
Seemeile |
| SM |
Survey Manual |
| SMA |
Schweizerische Meteorologische Anstalt |
| SMAC |
State Mapping Advisory Committee (or Council) |
| SMB |
Surveys and Mapping Branch (Manitoba) |
| SMC |
Special Mapping Center |
| SMCRA |
surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act |
| SMD |
Surveys and Mapping Div. (Tanzania) |
| SME |
Softcopy Monoscopic Extraction; Society of Mining Engineers; society for Mining,
Metalurgy, and Exploration, Inc. |
| SMI |
Surveyors Module, Inc. |
| SMIB |
Surveying and Mapping Inst. of Beijing |
| SMIMS |
Single MIM-Based Integrated Mapping System (USBC) |
| SMIRR |
Shuttle Multispectral Infrared Radiometer |
| SMIPS |
Small Interactive Image Processing System |
| SMMR |
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
| SMMT |
Submilimeter Telescope |
| SMN |
Servicio Meteorologico Nacional (Argentina) |
| SMOW |
Standard Mead Ocean Water |
| SMS |
Synchronous Meteorological Satellite(s) |
| SMSA |
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| S/N |
Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| s.n. |
Sine nomine = without name (of publisher) |
SNARIL
|
Social, Natural, and Agricultural Resources Information Laboratory (Univ. of Kentucky)
|
| SNCF |
Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer (France) |
| SND |
Street Network Database |
| SNEP |
Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project |
| SNF |
Superior National Forest (Minn.) |
| SNGM |
Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria (Chile) |
| SNI |
Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems AG |
| SNID |
Startnode ID |
| SNIG |
Sistema Nacional de Informac~ao Geografica = Portuguese National Infrastructure for
Geographic Information |
| SNLCS |
Servico Nacional de Levantamento e Conservac~ao de Solos (Brazil) |
| SNM |
Square nautical miles |
| SNR |
Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SNRIM |
Subcommittee on Natural Resources |
| SNT |
Servicio Nacional de Turismo (Chile) |
| SODEMI |
Societe pour le Developpement Minier de la Cote d'Ivoire |
| SOFRATOP |
Societe Francais de Travaux Topographique et Photogrammetriques |
| SOHO |
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite |
| SOLE |
Spatial On-Line Editor (ESRI) |
| SOM |
Space Oblique Mercator (projection) |
| SONAR |
Sound Navigation and Ranging |
| SONATRACH |
Societe Nationale de Recherches de l'Explorations Mini`eres (Algeria) |
| SOP |
Secretaria de Obras Publicas |
| SORSA |
Spatially-Oriented Referencing Systems Assn. |
| SOS |
Survey Office System |
| SOWR |
Sensitivity of Water Resources (global change hydrology program) |
| SP |
Survey of Pakistan |
| SPANS |
Spatial Analysis System (TYDAC Technologies) |
| SPARRSO |
Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organisation |
| SPB |
Space Planning Bureau |
| SPC |
State Plane Coordinate (system(s)) |
| SPC RE |
Survey Production Centre, Royal Engineers (U.K.) |
| SPCS |
State Plane Coordinate System(s) |
| SPDK |
Sistem Pengurusan Data Kadaster (Malaysia) |
| SPEK |
Sistem Pengeshan Kualiti = Quality Assurance System (SPDK) |
| SPID |
Sistem Pengurusan Imej Dokumen = Certified Plan Image Database (SPDK) |
| SPIE |
Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers |
| SPIN-2 |
Space Information-2 Meter Data (Russian Space Agency) |
| SPIRE |
Spatial Paradigm for Information Retrieval and Exploration |
| SPO |
State Planning Office |
| SPOEM |
Special Projects Office for Exploitation Modernization (USDMA) |
| SPOT |
Syst`eme Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre (satellite) |
| SPOTS |
Standard Programming of Telemetry Systems |
| SPRI |
Scott Polar Research Inst. (Univ. of Cambridge) |
| SPS |
Standard Positioning Service |
| SP/S |
Source Preparation Segment |
| SPT |
Strathclyde Passenger Transport |
| SPVEA |
Superintendencia do Plano de Valorizac o Economica da Amazonia (Brazil) |
| SQL |
Standard Query Language; Structured Query language |
| SRBC |
Susquehanna River Basin Commission |
| SRES OP |
Special Report on Emission Scenarios Open Process |
| SRF |
Systematic reconnaissance flights |
| SRI |
Spatial Reference Information |
| SRMB |
Surveys and Resource Mapping Branch (British Columbia) |
| SROM |
Spectro-radiometer for Ocean Monitoring |
| SSA |
Seismological Society of America |
| SSCC |
SPAWAR Systems Center, Charleston |
| SSSA |
Soil Science Society of America |
| SSD |
Singapore Survey Dept.; Sudan Survey Dept. |
| SSE |
South Southeast |
| SSEW |
Soil Survey of England and Wales |
| SSEOP |
Space Shuttle Observation Project (U.S.) |
| SSGN |
Service Geographique National (Senegal) |
| SSK |
Stereo Softcopy Kit (Intergraph Corp.) |
| SSMC |
Silver Spring Metro Center (NOAA) |
| SSS |
Side Scan SONAR |
| SSU |
Strategic Services Unit (U.S. War Dept.); Secondary sampling unit |
| SSURGO |
Soil Survey Geographical (database) |
| SSW |
South Southwest |
| St |
Saint; Street |
| STAAC |
Space and Terrestrial Applications Advisory Committee |
| STAC |
State Technology Applications Centers (NASA) |
| StatsCan |
Statistics Canada |
| STATSGO |
State Geographic Database (U.S.) |
| Stb. |
Steinbruch = stone quarry |
| STC |
Standard Telephones & Cables PLC; Stanford Technology Corp. |
| STCB |
Survey Technician Certification Board (ASCM) |
| Stde. |
Stunde = hour |
| STDM |
Stadium |
| STDN |
Spacecraft Tracking and Data Network |
| STF |
Summary tape file |
| STIBOKA |
Stichting voor Bodemkartering (Netherlands) |
| STINASU |
Stichting Natuurbescherming Suriname |
| STK |
Satellite Tool Kit (Analytical Graphics, Inc.) |
| STM |
Stream; System test mode |
| STMA |
Anabranch |
| STMD |
Distributary |
| STMI |
Intermittent stream |
| STMM |
Stream mouth |
| Str. |
Strasse = street |
| STRT |
Strait |
| STV |
Service Topographique (Vanuatu) |
| SU |
Standard update; Stanford University |
| SUC |
Society of University Cartographers |
| SUDENE |
Superintendencia de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (Brazil) |
| SuDocs |
Superintendent of Documents (U.S.) |
| SUDSS |
Spatial understanding and decision support system |
| SUGK |
Slovak Office of Geodesy and Cartography |
| SUM |
Standard update, monoscopic |
| SUNI |
Stockholms Universitet Naturgeografiska Institutionen |
| SUNMAP |
Dept. of Natural Resources (Queensland) and its earlier names: Dept. of Lands;
Division of Information, Dept. of Lands; Dept. of Geographic Information; Dept. of Mapping
and Surveying |
| Sur. |
Surveyor |
| SUS |
Standard update, stereoscopic |
| SV |
Space vehicle |
| SVD |
Singular Value Decomposition |
| S-VGA |
Super Video Graphics Array |
| SVP |
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology |
| SW |
Software; Southwest; Surface water |
| S/W |
Software |
| SWA |
Super-wide angle |
| SWAB |
Southwest Alluvial Basins (project, NM) |
| SWDC |
Southwestern Colorado Data Center |
| SWG |
Standards working group |
| S.W.P.A. |
Southwest Pacific Area (Allied Forces) |
| SYCI |
System Corrected Images |
| t |
Tonne |
| t. |
tief = deep |
| T |
Township; photogrammetric elevation (measured with stereo plotter) |
| T. |
Tiefe = depth |
| TAC |
Terrain Analysis Center (USCE) |
| TACA |
Transportes Aereos Centro Americanos |
| TACAN |
Tactical Air Navigation |
| TAG |
Tabular and Graphic (system) |
| TAPS |
Tennessee Assn. of Professional Surveyors |
| TAR |
Tape address register |
| TARGA |
TrueVision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter |
| TASC |
Transportation Administration Service Center (US); The Analytic Sciences Corp. |
| TASMAP |
Tasmania Dept. of Lands |
| TAVO |
Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients |
| TAZ |
Traffic analysis zone |
| TBD |
To be determined |
| TBM |
Temporary bench mark; Tunnel boring machine |
| TBV |
To be verified |
| T.C.H. |
Thomas Campanius Holm |
| TCI |
Touring Club Italiano |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TCT |
Trans-continental Traverse (U.S.) |
| TD |
Thematic data; Topographic Div. (USGS); Total depth |
| TdA |
Teledeteccion Aplicada, S.A. |
| TDC |
Tennessee Dept. of Conservation |
| TDD |
Telecommunications Device for the Deaf |
| TDM |
Tasmania Dept. of Mines |
| TDN |
Topografische Dienst Nederland |
| TDR |
Time Domain Reflectrometry |
| TDRSS |
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
| TDS |
Tripod Data Systems |
| TDSA |
Tribal designated statistical area |
| TDT |
Terrestrial Dynamic Time |
| T.E. |
Topographical Engineer |
| TEC |
The Engineering Center; Topographic Engineering Center (USCE) |
| TEFIS |
Transmission Electrical Facilities Information System (Santee Cooper) |
| TEKPLOT |
Tektronix Plotting (DLG software) |
| TELEX |
Teletypewriter Exchange |
| TELNET |
Telecommunications Network |
| TERCOM |
Terrain Contour Matching |
| TERSS |
Tasmanian Earth Resource Satellite Station |
| TES |
Terrain Edit System |
| TESC |
Tile enclosed elevator with self-closing traps |
| TESEMPS |
Terrain Edit Station/Elevation Matrix Processing System |
| TEXPLOT |
Tektronix Plotting (DLG software) |
| TFC |
Forestry Commission Tasmania |
| TFEL |
Thin-film electrolumiscent |
| TFH |
Technische Fachhoschule (Berlin) |
| TGS |
Technicolor Graphic Services, Inc. |
| T., G.M. |
Giuseppe Maria Terreni |
| T.H. |
Triple hydrant; Territory of Hawaii |
| THSOA |
The Hydrographic Society of America |
| TI |
Technical instruction; Technical investigation; Texas Instruments; Topographic
instruction |
| TIC |
Technical Information Center (NASA) |
| .TIF |
Tagged Image File |
| TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
| TIGA |
Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture |
| TIGER |
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing |
| TIGRIS |
Topologically Integrated Geographic Resource and Information System |
| TIMS |
Therms Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| TIN |
Triangulated irregular network |
| TIRS |
Thermal Infrared Scanner |
| TJSA |
Tribal jurisdiction statistical area |
| TLI |
Terrain Line Interpolation |
| TLID |
TIGER/Line Record Identification Number |
| TLM |
Telemetry; Topographic Line Map |
| TLSD |
Tuvalu Lands and Survey Div. |
| TLV |
Threshold limit value |
| TM |
Thematic Mapper (Landsat); Timber management |
| TMAC |
Technical Mapping Advisory Council (U.S.) |
| TMC |
The Map Collector (journal) |
| TMDL |
Total maximum daily load |
| TMLS |
Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources (Tonga) |
| TMS |
Thematic Mapper Simulator; Topographic Mapping Service (Geomatics Canada) |
| TNP |
Transportation Network Profile |
| TNRIS |
Texas Natural Resources Information system |
| T-O |
Orbis terrarum (Medieval European map type: Nile and Don rivers and Mediterranean form
a "T" surrounded by ocean in the shape of an "O") |
| TOPOCOM |
U.S. Army Topographic Command |
| Tp. |
Township |
| TPC |
Tactical Pilotage Chart |
| TPM |
Theodolitprufmachine |
| TPS |
Thin-plate splines |
| TQ |
Topographic quadrangle |
| TR |
Township and Range (public land survey) |
| TRACE |
Topographic Resources and Cost Evaluation (system) |
| Trafo |
Transformator |
| TRB |
Technical Review Board (U.S.) |
| TRF |
Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| Trgf. |
Tragfahigkeit = Carrying capacity |
| TRI |
Toxic Release Inventory (USEPA) |
| T/RS |
Township/Range System |
| TRSC |
Thailand Remote Sensing Center |
| TS |
Top secret |
| TSC1 |
Trimble System Controller |
| TSD |
Treatment, storage and disposal sites |
| TSGS |
Topographic Section, General Staff (Gt. Brit.) |
| TSI |
Teqnical Services Inc. |
| TSOP |
The Society for Organic Petrology |
| TSPS |
Texas Society of Professional Surveyors |
| TSS2 |
TurboSurvey Software 2 |
| TT |
TT Maps & Publications Private Ltd. |
| TTD |
Tactical terrain data |
| TTY |
Teletype |
| TUNS |
Technical University of Nova Scotia |
| TVA |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
| TVP |
Topological vector profile |
| TWA |
Time-weighted average |
| Twp. |
Township |
| U |
Unclassified |
| UA |
Urbanized area |
| UAM |
United Aerial Mapping; Urban Airshed Model (USEPA) |
| UART |
Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
| UAS |
Urban Area Studies |
| UC |
Univ. of California |
| UCAID |
Univ. Corp. for Advanced Internet Development |
| UCB |
Univ. of California, Berkeley |
| UCD |
Univ. of California, Davis |
| UCDL |
University of California Digital Library |
| UCGIS |
Univ. Consortium for GIS |
| UCLGES |
Unified Cartographic Line Graph Encoding System |
| UCPTE |
Union for the Coordination of the Production and Transport of Electric Power |
| UCS |
Uniform Color Space |
| UCSB |
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara |
| UDA |
User data area |
| UDB |
Universal Data Base |
| UDC |
Universal Decimal Classification |
| UDF |
Universal Data Format |
| UDNR |
Utah Dept. of Natural Resources |
| UDOGM |
Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| UDS |
Urban Data Solutions |
| UDSL |
Utah Division of State Lands |
| UDWR |
Utah Division of Water Resources |
| UE |
Useful elevation |
| UGB |
Urban growth boundary |
| UGC |
Utility Graphics Consultants |
| UGID |
Universal Geographic Identity |
| UGMS |
Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
| UGSMD |
Uganda Geological Survey and Mines Dept. |
| UHF |
Ultra-high frequency |
| UHMS |
Urban Hydrology Monitoring System |
| UID |
User identification |
| UK |
United Kingdom |
| UKMO |
United Kingdom Meteorological Office |
| ULCC |
Utility Location and Coordination Council |
| ULSD |
Uganda Dept. of Lands and Surveys |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNAM |
Universidad Nacional de Mexico |
| UNCLA |
Unclassified |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development Program |
| UNECA |
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa |
| UNEP |
United Nations Environment Program |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNGEGN |
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names |
| UNIMACE |
Universal Automated Mapping Compilation Equipment |
| Univ. |
University |
| UNR |
Univ. of Nevada, Reno |
| UP |
Urban planning |
| UPADI |
Union Panamerica de Asociaciones de Ingenieros |
| UPC |
Universal Product Code |
| UPPS |
Universal Projection Plotting System |
| UPRN |
Unique Property Reference Number |
| UPS |
Universal polar stereographic |
| UR |
Universal Rectifier |
| U/R |
Urban/rural |
| URISA |
Urban and Regional Information Systems Assn. |
| URUID |
Unrectified image data |
| URL |
Universal Resource Locator; Uniform Resource Locator |
| URPI |
Unit for Retail Planning Information Ltd. |
| URS |
Unrestricted random sample |
| U.S. |
United States of America |
| USA |
United States of America; United States Army |
| USACERL |
U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories |
| USAETL |
United States Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories |
| USAF |
United States Air Force |
| USARP |
United States Antarctic Research Program |
| USB |
Unified S-Band |
| USBC |
United States Bureau of the Census |
| USC |
Unified soil classification |
| USC&GS |
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
| USCE |
United States Army Corps of Engineers |
| USCG |
United States Coast Guard |
| USCS |
United States Customary System |
| USD |
Univ. of South Dakota |
| USDA |
United States Dept. of Agriculture |
| USDC |
United States Dept. of Commerce |
| USDI |
United States Dept. of the Interior |
| USEPA |
United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| USDMA |
United States Defense Mapping Agency |
| USFS |
United States Forest Service |
| USFWS |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service |
| USGCRP |
U.S. Global Change Research Program |
| USGK |
Utstredni Sprava Geodezie a Kartografie (Czechoslovakia) |
| USGPO |
United States Government Printing Office |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| USGS-MP |
United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park |
| USLS |
United States Lake Survey |
| USMC |
United States Marine Corps |
| USNBS |
United States National Biological Survey |
| USN |
United States Navy |
| USNCHC |
United States National Committee on Scientific Hydrology |
| USNC-ICA |
United States National Committee for the ICA |
| USNO |
United States Naval Observatory |
| USNOS |
United States National Ocean Service (or Survey) |
| USPLSS |
U.S. Public Land Survey System |
| USPS |
United States Postal Service |
| USR |
Universal Space Rectangular (coordinate system) |
| USSCS |
United States Soil Conservation Service |
| UST |
Underground storage tank |
| UT |
Unit terminator; Universal Time; Unorganized territory; Utah |
| UTC |
Universal Time Coordinated; Urban Traffic Control System (Siemans) |
| UTM |
Universal transverse Mercator |
| UUG |
Utstredni Ustav Geologicky |
| UURI |
Univ. of Utah Research Inst. |
| UV |
Ultraviolet; Unit value |
| UW |
Univ. of Washington |
| UWM |
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison |
| UVMap |
Urban VMap |
| UWCL |
Univ. of Wisconsin Cartography Laboratory (Madison) |
| U-2 |
A high altitude remote sensing aircraft |
| w |
westlich |
| W |
Westen |
| WA |
Washington (State) |
| WAAS |
Wide area augmentation system (or sites) |
| WAC |
World Aeronautical Chart |
| WACMA |
Western Australia Central Map Agency |
| WADGPS |
Wide Area Differential GPS |
| WADM |
Dept. of Mines Western Australia |
| WAGAP |
Washington Gap Analysis Program |
| WAIS |
Wide-area Information Server (or Service or System); Western Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| WALIS |
Western Australian Land Information System |
| WAML |
Western Assn. of Map Libraries |
| WAML IB |
Western Assn. of Map Libraries Information Bulletin |
| WAN |
Wide area network |
| WAT |
Weighted-average toxicity |
| WB |
World Bank |
| WBVTR |
Wide-band video tape recorder |
| WCB |
Workshop Certification Board (ACSM) |
| WCCS |
Washington Council of County Surveyors |
| WCMC |
World Conservation Monitoring Center |
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
| WCS |
World Construction Set (Questar Productions) |
| WDBII |
World Data Base II |
| WDDES |
World Digital Database for Environmental Science (ICA/IGU) |
| WDG |
Washington Dept. of Game |
| WDGER |
Washington Div. of Geology and Earth Resources |
| Wdlg. |
Widerlager |
| W.D.M.C. |
War Dept. Map Collection (U.S.) |
| WDMS |
Watershed Data Management System |
| WDNR |
Washington Dept. of Natural Resources |
| WDOE |
Washington Dept. of Ecology |
| WEF |
Water Environment Federation |
| WELU |
Western Energy Land Use Team |
| WET |
Wetland Evaluation Technique |
| WFPLS |
Western Federation of Professional Land Surveyors |
| WFPS |
Western Federation of Professional Surveyors |
| W.G. |
Wired glass skylight |
| WGMG |
Working Group on Map Generalization (ICA) |
| WGNHS |
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey |
| WGS |
World Geodetic System; World Geodetic Survey |
| WGS 84 |
World Geodetic System of 1984 |
| W.H. |
Wirtshaus = public house, inn |
| WIC |
Westindische Compagnie |
| WIMS |
Weather Information Management System |
| WIS |
Watershed Information System |
| WISCLAND |
Wisconsin Initiative for Statewide Cooperation on Landscape Analysis and Data |
| WISE |
Women Investigating Sciences and Environment (Univ. of Nebraska) |
| WLIA |
Wisconsin Land Information Society |
| WLS |
Weighted least squares |
| WLU |
World Land-use Survey |
| WMATA |
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
| WMC |
Western Mapping Center (USGS) |
| WMD |
Water management district |
| .WMF |
Windows Metafile Format |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
| WMS |
Washington (D.C.) Map Society; Work Management System; World Mapping System; World
Market Strategies Ltd. |
| WNRO |
GPS Week Number Roll Over |
| WNS |
West northwest |
| WO |
Welsh Office |
| WOM |
Web Object Management |
| WORM |
Write Once, Read Many |
| WP |
Word processor |
| WPCF |
Water Pollution Control Federation |
| .WPG |
WordPerfect Graphic format |
| WPU |
Wilayah Pembangunan Utama |
| WQM |
Water quality monitor |
| WR |
Water Resources; Western Region |
| WRAP |
Western Regional Applications Program (NASA) |
| WRCB |
Water Resources Control Board |
| WRD |
Water Resources Div. (USGS); Water Resources Dept. |
| WRI |
Water Resources Investigation |
| WRIDS |
Wildland Resources Information Display System |
| WRIR |
Water Resources Investigation Report |
| WRIS |
Wildland Resources Information System |
| WRRI |
Water Resources Research Inst. |
| WRS |
World Reference System (Landsat) |
| WRSIC |
Water Resources Scientific Information Center |
| WS |
Work station |
| WSC |
Water Survey of Canada |
| WSLD |
Western Samoa Lands and Survey Dept. |
| WSLS |
Wisconsin Society of Land Surveyors |
| WSM |
Widener Surveying and Mapping (Firm) |
| WSP |
Water-supply Paper |
| WSPS |
Western Society of Professional Surveyors |
| WSU |
Washington State Univ. |
| WSUCSC |
Washington State Univ. Computing Service Center |
| WSW |
West southwest |
| W.T. |
Water tank; Washington Territory |
| WTCD |
Deltaic watercourse |
| WTUSM |
Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping |
| WVALS |
West Virginia Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| WVGES |
West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey |
| WVS |
World Vector Shoreline (USDMA) |
| WVSPLUS |
World Vector Shoreline Plus |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
| WY |
Wyoming |
| WYSDOT |
Washington State Dept. of Transportation |
| WYSIWYG |
What you see is what you get |
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