| 3DEP |
3D Elevation Program |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for information interchange |
| BIM |
Barrier Island Mapping |
| cm |
centimeter |
| CTD |
conductivity, temperature, pressure |
| DEM |
digital elevation model |
| DGPS |
Differential Global Positioning System |
| DLG |
digital line graph |
| FACS |
Field Activity Collection System |
| FAN |
field activity number |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| ft |
foot |
| GEOID12A |
Geoid model of 2012 |
| GIS |
geographic information system |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| HIPS |
Hydrographic Information Processing System |
| html |
hypertext markup language |
| Hz |
Hertz |
| ITRF00 |
International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000 |
| KB |
kilobyte |
| kHz |
kilohertz |
| km |
kilometer |
| Lidar |
light detection and ranging |
| LPC |
lidar point cloud |
| m |
meter |
| MB |
megabyte |
| MCU |
maximum cumulative uncertainty |
| MHz |
megahertz |
| MLLW |
mean lower low water |
| mm |
millimeters |
| ms |
millisecond |
| N |
north |
| NAD83 |
North American Datum 1983 |
| NAVD88 |
North American Vertical Datum 1988 |
| NFWF |
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation |
| NGS |
National Geodetic Survey |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OPUS |
On-Line Positioning User Service |
| PDF (or pdf) |
Portable Document Format |
| PID |
Permanent Identifiers |
| ppm |
parts per million |
| PWC |
personal watercraft |
| RAW |
Raw HYPACK file name extension |
| RMS |
root mean square |
| R/V |
research vessel |
| s |
second |
| SBB |
single-beam bathymetry |
| SIPS |
Sonar Information Processing System |
| SOS |
speed of sound |
| SPCMSC |
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| S/V |
survey vessel |
| SVP |
sound velocity profile |
| TIN |
triangulated irregular network |
| USACE |
United States Army Corps of Engineers |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
| WGS84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
| XML (or xml) |
extensible markup language |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey