| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BGAN |
Broadband Global Area Network |
| .BIN |
Binary output file from Hypack |
| cm |
Centimeter |
| CORS |
Continuously Operating Reference Stations |
| CR |
Choke Ring |
| CSV |
Comma Separated Values |
| CTD |
Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth |
| DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
| FAN |
Field Activity Number |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| GeoTIFF |
Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format |
| GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| Hz |
Hertz |
| KB |
Kilobyte |
| kHz |
Kilohertz |
| km |
Kilometer |
| m |
Meter |
| MB |
Megabyte |
| m/s |
Meters per Second |
| NAVD88 |
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 |
| NAD83 |
North American Datum of 1983 |
| NGS |
National Geodetic Survey |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| N.Y. |
New York |
| OPUS |
Online Positioning User Services |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PID |
Permanent Identification |
| PWC |
Personal Watercraft |
| .RAW |
GPS data saved by Hypack |
| REST |
GPS Benchmark at Robins Rest |
| RMS |
Root Mean Square |
| s |
Second |
| SPCMSC |
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| TIN |
Triangulated Irregular Network |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
| VC |
GPS Benchmark at the Wilderness Visitor Center |
| WGS84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
| x |
Easting |
| y |
Northing |
| z |
Elevation |
| ZIP |
Compressed archival file format |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey