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