| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| CLARIS |
Coastal LIDAR and Radar Imaging System |
| CORS |
continuously operating reference stations |
| DEM |
digital elevation model |
| DMI |
distance measuring instrument |
| FRF |
Field Research Facility |
| GNSS |
global navigation satellite system |
| GPS |
global positioning system |
| IMU |
inertial movement unit |
| km |
kilometer |
| km/h |
kilometer per hour |
| Lidar |
light detection and ranging |
| m |
meter |
| NAD 83 |
North American Datum of 1983 |
| N.C. |
North Carolina |
| NGS |
National Geodetic Survey |
| N.Y. |
New York |
| RMSE |
root mean square error |
| SBET |
smoothed best estimate of trajectory |
| SPCMSC |
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| USACE |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
| 3-D |
three dimensional |