| 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 |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey