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ACRONYMS

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ACRONYM OR
ABBREVIATION

DEFINITION

2D

2-Dimensional

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CDP

Common Depth Point

CMG

Coastal and Marine Geology

db

Decibel

DGPS

Differential Global Positioning System

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

FISC

Florida Integrated Science Center

GFP

Geologic Framework and Processes

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GPS

Global Positioning System

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

Hz

Hertz

ID

Identification

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

ITI

Innovative Transducers, Inc.

J

Joules

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

KB

Kilobyte(s)

kHz

Kilohertz

km

Kilometer(s)

m

Meter(s)

MB

Megabyte(s)

ms

Millisecond(s)

NAD83

North American Datum 1983

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

UNO

University of New Orleans

USGS

United States Geological Survey

UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

WGS84

World Geodetic System 1984

WWW

World Wide Web

XML

Extensible Markup Language


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