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U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 647

Acronyms and Abbreviations


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ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION
DEFINITION
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
DOY
Day of Year
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
DOS
Disk Operating System
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
XML
Extensible Markup Language
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
FACS
Field Activity Collection System
GIS
Geographic Information System
GPS
Global Positioning System
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
Hz
Hertz
HR
Hour(s)
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
ID
Identification
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
J
Joules
KB
Kilobyte(s)
kHz
Kilohertz
MB
Megabyte(s)
m
Meter(s)
ms
Millisecond(s)
MIN
Minute(s)
N
North
PC
Personal Computer
PDF
Portable Document Format
s, SEC
Second(s)
SU
Seismic Unix
SEG
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
SPCMSC
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
TAR
Tape Archive (File format)
2-D
Two-Dimensional
TWT
Two-Way Travel Time
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
UTM
Universal Transverse Mercator
W
West
WAAS
Wide Area Augmentation System
WGS84
World Geodetic System 1984

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