ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION |
DEFINITION |
ALPS |
Airborne Lidar Processing System |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASPRS |
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
BA |
Bathymetry |
BE |
Bare Earth |
CIR |
Color Infrared |
cm |
Centimeter(s) |
CMGP |
Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
DSM |
Digital Surface Model |
DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc |
EAARL |
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar |
ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. |
FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
FS |
First Surface |
GB |
Gigabyte(s) |
GeoTIFF |
Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
GRASS |
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System |
HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
kHz |
Kilohertz |
LAS |
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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) |
RCF |
Random-Consensus Filter |
RGB |
Red-Green-Blue |
ST |
Submerged Topography |
TIF |
Tagged Image File |
USGS |
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UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
WGS84 |
World Geodetic System 1984 |
XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
U.S.
Department of the Interior | U.S.
Geological Survey
