ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION |
DEFINITION
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ALPS
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Airborne Lidar Processing System
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ASCII
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASPRS
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American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
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BA
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Bathymetry
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BE
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Bare Earth
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CIR
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Color Infrared
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CLICK
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Center for Lidar Information Coordination and Knowledge
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cm
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Centimeter(s)
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CMG
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Coastal and Marine Geology
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DEM
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Digital Elevation Model
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DOQQ
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Digital Orthophoto Quarter-Quadrangle
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DSM
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Digital Surface Model
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DVD
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Digital Versatile Disc
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EAARL
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Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar
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ESRI
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Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. |
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FGDC
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Federal Geographic Data Committee
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FISC
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Florida Integrated Science Center
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FS
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First Surface
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GB
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Gigabyte(s)
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GeoTIFF
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Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format
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GIS
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Geographic Information Systems
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GPS
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Global Positioning System
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HTML
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Hypertext Markup Language
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kHz
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Kilohertz
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LAS
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Log ASCII Standard
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Lidar
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Light Detection and Ranging
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m
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Meter(s)
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NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NAD83
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North American Datum 1983
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NAVD88
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North American Vertical Datum 1988
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nm
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Nanometer(s)
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NPS
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National Park Service
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RGB
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Red-Green-Blue
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ST
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Submerged Topography
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TIF
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Tagged Image File
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USGS
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U.S. Geological Survey
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UTM
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Universal Transverse Mercator
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WGS84
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World Geodetic System 1984
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XML
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Extensible Markup Language
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U.S.
Department of the Interior | U.S.
Geological Survey
