| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BASE |
Bathymetry Based on Statistical Error |
| BIM |
Barrier Island Mapping |
| cm |
centimeter |
| CTD |
Conductivity, Temperature, Pressure, and Depth |
| CUBE |
Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator |
| DEM |
digital elevation model |
| DGPS |
Differential Global Positioning System |
| Esri |
Environmental Systems Research Institute |
| FACS |
Field Activity Collection System |
| FAN |
field activity number |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| ft |
foot |
| GEOID12B |
geoid model of 2012 version B |
| GIS |
geographic information system |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| GUIS |
Gulf Islands National Seashore |
| HIPS |
Hydrographic Information Processing System |
| HP |
High Precision |
| Hz |
hertz |
| IFB |
interferometric swath bathymetry |
| IMU |
inertial measurement unit |
| ITRF00 |
International Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2000 |
| ITRF08 |
International Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2008 |
| KB |
kilobyte |
| kHz |
kilohertz |
| km |
kilometer |
| lidar |
light detection and ranging |
| m |
meter |
| MB |
megabyte |
| MCU |
maximum cumulative uncertainty |
| MHW |
mean high water |
| MLLW |
Mean Lower Low Water |
| mm |
millimeter |
| ms |
millisecond |
| m/s |
meter per second |
| MsCIP |
Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program |
| NAD83 |
North American Datum of 1983 |
| NAVD88 |
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 |
| NGOM |
Northern Gulf of Mexico |
| NGS |
National Geodetic Survey |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPS |
National Park Service |
| OPUS |
Online Positioning User Service |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PID |
Permanent Identifier |
| ppm |
part per million |
| QA/QC |
quality assurance and quality control |
| RMS |
root mean square |
| R/V |
research vessel |
| s |
second |
| SBB |
single-beam bathymetry |
| SEA |
Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd. |
| SIPS |
Sonar Information Processing System |
| SOS |
speed of sound |
| SPCMSC |
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| SVP |
sound velocity profile |
| SVS |
Sound Velocity Sensor |
| TIN |
triangulated irregular network |
| USACE |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
| WGS84 |
World Geodetic System of 1984 |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey