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ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION

DEFINITION

2D

2-Dimensional

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CCT

Coastal Change and Transport

CCU

Coastal Carolina University

CDP

Common Depth Point

CMGP

Coastal and Marine Geology Program

db

Decibel

DVD

Digital Versatile Disc

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

ESRI

Environmental Systems Research Institute

FACS

Field Activity Collection System

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

GDT

Geographic Data Technology, Inc.

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GPS

Global Positioning System

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

Hz

Hertz

ID

Identification

ITI

Innovative Technologies, Inc.

JD

Julian Day

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

kHz

Kilohertz

m

Meter(s)

MB

Megabyte(s)

ms

Millisecond(s)

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

PC

Personal Computer

PDF

Portable Document Format

RTF

Rich Text Format

R/V

Research Vessel

s

Second(s)

SEG

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

SU

Seismic Unix

UDF

Universal Disc Format

USGS

United States Geological Survey

UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

WGS84

World Geodetic System 1984

WWW

World Wide Web


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