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Data Series 957

Archive of Bathymetry Data Collected at Cape Canaveral, Florida, 2014

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
DGPS
Differential Global Positioning System
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
EAARL-B
second-generation Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
FACS
Field Activity Collection System
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
GB
gigabyte(s)
GEOID12a
Geoid model of 2012a
GIS
Geographic Information System
GPS
Global Positioning System
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
IR
infrared
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
KB
Kilobyte
kHz
kilohertz
km
kilometer
lidar
Light Detection and Ranging
m
meter(s)
MLLW
Mean Lower Low Water
MLW
Mean Low Water
ms
Millisecond
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAD83
North American Datum 1983
NAVD88
North American Vertical Datum 1988
NGS
National Geodetic Survey
nm
nanometer(s)
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PC
Personal Computer
PDF
Portable Document Format
RGB
Red-Green-Blue
RMSE
Root Mean Square Error
SANDS
System for Accurate Nearshore Depth Surveying
SBB
Single-beam Bathymetry
SPCMSC
Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
sonar
Sound Navigation and Ranging
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
UTM
Universal Transverse Mercator
VDATUM
Vertical Datum transformation
WGS84
World Geodetic System 1984
XML
Extensible Markup Language

 

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