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EAARL-B Coastal Topography—Fire Island, New York, Pre-Hurricane Sandy, 2012: Seamless (Bare Earth and Submerged)


Acronyms and Abbreviations

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
Log ASCII Standard
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
U.S. Geological Survey
UTM
Universal Transverse Mercator
WGS84
World Geodetic System 1984
XML
Extensible Markup Language