Abbreviation |
Definition |
ai |
Adobe Illustrator File |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
CMGP |
Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
CSV or csv |
Comma-Separated Value |
d |
Denotes Digital Camera |
DPI |
Dots Per Inch |
DS |
USGS Data Series |
DV |
Digital Video |
Esri |
Environmental Systems Research Institute |
EXIF |
Exchangeable Image File |
FACS |
Field Activity Collection System |
FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
ft |
Feet |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
GNIS |
Geographic Names Information Service |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
hh |
Hour (in timestamp) |
hhmmss |
Hour, Minute, and Second (in timestamp) |
HH:MIN:SEC |
Hour, Minute, and Second (in table 1) |
HTML or html |
Hypertext Markup Language |
ID |
Identification |
ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
IPTC |
International Press Telecommunications Council |
JPEG or jpg |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
KB |
Kilobyte |
KML or kml |
Keyhole Markup Language |
m |
Meter |
mm |
Minutes (in Timestamp) |
mmdd |
Month and Day |
MM/DD/YYY |
Month, Day, and Year |
NIMA |
National Imagery and Mapping Agency |
PDF or pdf |
Portable Document Format |
Perl |
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language |
PLGR |
Precision Lightweight Global Positioning System GPS Receiver |
r |
Roll (in photograph name) |
ss |
Second (in timestamp) |
s |
Slide (in photograph name) |
SPCMSC |
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
TXT or txt |
Text File |
SVHS |
Super Video Home System |
URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
WGD |
World Geodetic Datum |
WGS84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
yyyy |
Year |