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Data Series 834



Sediment Data Collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi

Acronym or
Abbreviation
Definition
ASTM
American Society for Testing and Materials
BIM
Barrier Island Monitoring
cm
Centimeters
FACS
Field Activity Collection System
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
ft
Foot
GIS
Geographic Information System
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
in
Inch
ID
Identification
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
km
Kilometer
Lidar
Light Detection and Ranging
m
Meter
Miss.
Mississippi
N
North
NAD83
North American Datum 1983
NAVD88
North American Vertical Datum 1988
NOSAMS
National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
OSL
Optically Stimulated Luminescence
PDF
Portable Document Format
RV
Research Vessel
SPCMSC
Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
USGS
United States Geological Survey
USACE
United States Army Corps of Engineers
UTM
Universal Transverse Mercator
W
West
WGS84
World Geodetic System 1984
WHOI
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
XML
Extensible Markup Language

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