USGS Data Series 835: Acronyms - Archive of Single-Beam Bathymetry Data Collected from Select Areas in Weeks Bay and Weeks Bayou, Southwest Louisiana, January 2013

ACRONYM OR ABBREVIATION	DEFINITION
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BP	Bathy Profiler
CCT	Coastal Change and Transport
CD-ROM	Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
cm	Centimeter
CORS	Continuously Operating Reference Station
DGPS	Differential Global Positioning System
DEM	Digital Elevation Model
DMS.SS	Degrees, Minutes, Decimal Seconds
DVD	Digital Versatile Disc
EROS	Earth Resources Observation and Science
Esri	Environmental Systems Research Institute
FACS	Field Activity Collection System
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee
Fla.	Florida
ft	Foot
GIS	Geographic Information System
GPS	Global Positioning System
HIPS	Hydrographic Information Processing System
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
ID	Identification
Inc.	Incorporated
ITRF00	International Terrestrial Reference frame 2000
JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
KB	Kilobyte
kHz	Kilohertz
km²	Square Kilometer
km	Kilometer
La.	Louisiana
lidar	Light Detection and Ranging
m	Meter
MLLW	Mean Lower Low Water
ms	Millisecond
N	North
NAD83	North American Datum 1983
NGP	National Geospatial Program
NAVD88	North American Vertical Datum 1988
NGOM	Northern Gulf of Mexico Program
NGS	National Geodetic Survey
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OPUS	On-Line Positioning User Service
PDF	Portable Document Format
PID	Permanent Identifier
QA/QC	Quality Assurance/Quality Control
RMS	Root Mean Square
RV	Research Vessel
s	Second
SIPS	Sonar Information Processing System
SPCMSC	St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
SVP	Sound Velocity Profile
TIFF	Tagged Image File Format
TIN	Triangular Irregular Network
USGS	U.S. Geological Survey
UTM	Universal Transverse Mercator
WGS84	World Geodetic System 1984
XML	Extensible Markup Language

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