| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| CMGP |
Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
| CZMP |
Coastal Zone Management Program |
| EEZ |
exclusive economic zone |
| FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standards |
| GIS |
geographic information system |
| GNIS |
Geographic Names Information System |
| GNS |
GEOnet Names Server |
| LSAD |
legal/statistical area description |
| MAF/TIGER |
master address file/topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing |
| NAD 83 |
North American Datum of 1983 |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OCRM |
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (NOAA) |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| WKT |
well-known text |