Technology
Abbreviations and Acronyms
DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
Source: ifrance.comA | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X-Y-Z |
A
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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 |
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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. |
J
Return to Index
| JAMP | Joint Automated Mapping Project |
| JATOP | Army Topographic Service (Indonesia) |
| JCCDS | Joint Committee on Cartographic Data Standardization (U.S.) |
| JCP | Joint Committee on Printing (U.S. Congress) |
| JEC | John E. Chance & Associates |
| JECA | John E. Chance & Associates |
| JERS | Japanese Earth Resources Satellite |
| JFIF | JPEG File Interchange Format |
| J.H. | Jagerhaus = hunting lodge |
| JICA | Japan International Cooperation Agency = Kokusai Kyoryoku Jigyodan |
| JIGI | Java Interface for Geospatial Information |
| J&K | Jammu and Kashmir |
| JMC | Japan Map Center |
| JMPC | Joint Mapping and Photography Committee (U.S.) |
| JMTK | Joint Mapping Tool Kit |
| JNC | Jet Navigation Chart |
| JNGC | Jordan National Geographic Centre |
| JOG | Joint operations graphic |
| JOG-A | Joint operations graphic--air |
| JOG-G | Joint operations graphic--ground |
| JOG-R | Joint operations graphic--radar |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions' Deep Earth Sampling |
| JOMAR | Joint Office for Mapping and Research (USGS-NOAA) |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| .JPG | Joint Photographic Experts Group format |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) |
| Jr HS | Junior high school |
| JRI | Jordregisterinstituttet (Norway) |
| JSC | Johnson Space Center |
| JSD | Jamaica Survey Dept. |
| JTIDS | Joint Tactical Information Distribution System |
| JTU | Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur |
| JWPCF | Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation |
K
Return to Index
| K | 1,000; Kilo |
| KAM | Kansas Assn. of Mappers |
| KANDIDATS | Univ. of Kansas Landsat Software System |
| KAPS | Kentucky Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| KARS | Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (program) |
| KB | Kilobyte |
| KBPS | Kilobytes per second |
| KCWA | Kern County Water Agency (Calif.) |
| KDI | Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence |
| K+F | Kummerly + Frey AG |
| Kfz. | Kraftfahrzeug |
| KGPS | Kinematic GPS |
| KGS | Kansas Geological Survey; Kentucky Geological Survey |
| kHz. | Kilohertz |
| KHz. | Kilohertz |
| KIER | Korean Inst. of Energy and Resources |
| Kil. | Kilometer |
| KKH | Karakoram Highway |
| kl. | klein |
| Kl. | Klasse |
| KL | Karhunen-Loeve (transform) |
| K-L | Karhunen-Loeve (transform) |
| Klbf | Kleinbahnhof |
| Kleinb | Kleinbahn |
| Kleinbf | Kleinbahnhof |
| Kls. | Kloster = cloister |
| KLSD | Kiribati Land and Survey Div. |
| km | Kilometer |
| KM | Kansas Mapper |
| KNP | Kruger National Park |
| KNRIS | Kentucky Natural Resources Information System |
| KREMU | Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit |
| KRIS | Kentucky Resources Information System |
| KSNM | Thousands (K) of square nautical miles |
| KU | Univ. of Kansas |
| kV | Kilovolt |
| kW | Kilowatt |
| KW | Kilowatt |
| KWIC | Key Word in Context |
| KWOC | Key Word Out of Context |
| KY | Kentucky |
L
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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 |
| 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 |
Q
Return to Index
| QA | Quality assurance |
| QA/QC | Quality assurance/quality control |
| QBS | Quality-based selection |
| QC | Quality control |
| QDF | Queensland Dept. of Forestry |
| QDM | Queensland Dept. of Mines |
| Q.H. | Quadruple hydrant |
| QINSy | Quality Integrated Navigation System (Quality Positioning Services, Inc.) |
| QLID | Queensland Land Information Directory |
| QLIS | Queensland Land Information Strategy |
| QLPS | Quick-Look Processing System |
| qm | Quadratmeter |
| QMSoft | Qualitative Marketing Software Inc. |
| QS | Quadratic splines |
| QSL | Quarter scan line |
| QTM | Quaternary triangular mesh |
| QW | Quality of water |
R
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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
Return to Index
| 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 |
V
Return to Index
| V | Volt |
| VA | Visual accumulation |
| VABM | Vertical angle elevation bench mark |
| VACP | Virtual active control point |
| VARIS | Virginia Resources Information System |
| VAS | Virginia Assn. of Surveyors |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
| Vbf | Verschriebebahnhof |
| VCGI | Vermont Center for Geographic Information |
| VCR | Video cassette recorder |
| VDMR | Virginia Div. of Mineral Resources |
| VDOT | Virginia Dept. of Transportation |
| VDSL | Very-high speed Digital Subscriber Line |
| VDT | Video display terminal |
| VDU | Video display unit |
| VEN'D | Brick veneered building |
| VFC | Vector Function Chainer |
| VFR | Visual Flight Rules; Vector Relational Format |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array; Video Graphics Adaptor |
| VGS | Vermont Geological Survey |
| V/H | Vertical over height ratio |
| VHF | Very high frequency |
| VHRR | Very high resolution radiometer |
| VICAR | Video Information Communication and Retrieval (JPL software) |
| VICMAP | Victoria Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey |
| VIMSARS | Video image map storage and retrieval system |
| ViSC | Visualization in Scientific Computing |
| VISG | Visual Information Services Group |
| VISION | Visual Information System Integrating our Neighborhoods (Columbus, Ohio) |
| VITD | VPF Interim Terrain Data |
| VITec | Visual Information Technologies Inc. |
| VLBI | Very long baseline interferometric (or interferometry) |
| VLC | Volcano |
| VLSI | Very large scale integration |
| VMap | Vector Smart Map |
| VMS | Voyage Management Sytem |
| VNP | Voyageurs National Park |
| Vobf | Vorbahnhof |
| VOC | Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie |
| V.P. | Vertical pipe or stand pipe |
| VP | Vector program |
| VPASS | Video Processor and Sync Separator |
| VPF | Vector Product Format |
| VPF/PS | Vector Product Format/Production System |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Mock-up (or Mark-up or Modeling) Language |
| VRP | Vector-to-raster processor |
| VSEGEI | Vsesoiuznnoi Nauchno-Issledovatel'skii Geologicheskii Institut (USSR) |
| VSLS | Vermont Society of Land Surveyors |
| VTD | Voting district |
| VTIR | Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer |
| VTR | Video tape recording |
| VTRAK | Vector-to-raster conversion software |
| VVK | Verwaltung Vermessungs und Kartenwesen |
W
Return to Index
| 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 |
X Y Z
Return to Index
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XWD | X-Window screen dump |
| Y2K | Year 2000 (problem) |
| Z., A. | Alexander Zakreski |
| ZGI | Zentrales Geologisches Institut (German Democratic Republic) |
| ZGS | Zambia Geological Survey Dept. |
| ZLI | Zia Landform Images |
| ZPS | ZEH plotting software |
| ZRC | Znanstvenoraziskovalni Center (Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti) |
| ZS | Zambia Survey Dept. |
| ZTS | Zoom Transfer Scope |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X-Y-Z |