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ATM Coastal Topography–Mississippi, 2001


Acronyms and Abbreviations

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

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