ACRONYM OR ABBREVIATION |
DEFINITION |
ALPS |
Airborne Lidar Processing System |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASPRS |
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
cm |
centimeter(s) |
CMGP |
Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
DEM |
digital elevation model |
EAARL-B |
second-generation Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar |
Esri |
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. |
FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
GB |
gigabyte(s) |
GeoTIFF |
Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
GRASS |
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System |
HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
IR |
infrared |
kHz |
kilohertz |
km |
kilometer |
LAS |
|
lidar |
Light Detection and Ranging |
m |
meter(s) |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NAD83 |
North American Datum 1983 |
NAVD88 |
North American Vertical Datum 1988 |
nm |
nanometer(s) |
RCF |
Random Consensus Filter |
RGB |
Red-Green-Blue |
RMSE |
Root Mean Square Error |
TIF |
Tagged Image File |
USGS |
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UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
WGS84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
XML |
Extensible Markup Language |