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U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 651

Acronyms and Abbreviations


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ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION
DEFINITION
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CCH Coastal Change Hazards
CMGP Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CSV Comma Separated Value
DOS Disk Operating System
DPI Dots Per Inch
DV Digital Video
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
EAARL Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
EXIF Exchangeable Image File
FACS Field Activity Collection System
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
ft Feet
GCS Geographic Coordinate System
GB Gigabyte(s)
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GIS Geographic Information Systems
GPS Global Positioning System
hr Hour(s)
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
ICE Image Correction and Enhancement
ID Identification
Inc Incorporated
ISO International Organization for Standardization
IPTC International Press Telecommunications Council
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
KB Kilobyte(s)
km Kilometer(s)
KML Keyhole Markup Language
m Meter(s)
Mac Macintosh
min Minute(s)
MB Megabyte(s)
mm Millimeter(s)
ms Millisecond(s)
NAD83 North American Datum 1983
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NMEA National Marine Electronics Association
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OS Operating System
PC Personal Computer
PDF Portable Document Format
PLGR Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver
r Roll
s Slide
sec Second(s)
SPCMSC St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
SUDS Spatially United Data Sets
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TXT Text File
URL Uniform Resource Locator
UNIX Uniplexed Information and Computing System
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
UTC Universal Time Coordinated
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984
XML Extensible Markup Language

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