| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| cm |
centimeter |
| DEM |
digital elevation model |
| Esri |
Environmental Systems Research Institute |
| GPS |
global positioning system |
| ILRIS |
intelligent laser ranging and imaging system |
| IMU |
inertial measurement unit |
| km |
kilometer |
| LMG WSC |
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center |
m |
meter |
| MMS |
mobile mapping suite |
| POS MV |
position and orientation system for marine vessels |
| POSPac |
position and orientation system post-processing package
|
| RMSE |
root mean square error |
| RTK-GPS |
real-time kinematic global positioning system |
| SBET |
smoothed best estimate of trajectory |
| SPCMSC |
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| T-lidar |
terrestrial light detection and ranging |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey