| CMECS |
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard |
| CZM |
Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management |
| DGPS |
Differential Global Positioning System |
| Exif |
Exchangeable image file |
| FA |
field activity |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| GeoTIFF |
Georeferenced Tagged Image Format File |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| HTML |
hypertext markup language |
| Is. |
island |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| MA |
Massachusetts |
| Mass CZM |
Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management |
| Mass GIS |
Massachusetts Office of Geographic Information Systems |
| MLW |
Mean Low Water |
| MLLW |
Mean Lower Low Water |
| MOF |
Marine Operations Facility |
| MV or M/V |
motor vessel |
| NOS |
[NOAA] National Ocean Service |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| PDF |
portable document format |
| PNG |
portable network graphics |
| RTK-GPS |
Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System |
| RV or R/V |
research vessel |
| SEABOSS |
SEABed Observation and Sampling System |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator |
| WGS84 |
World Geodetic System of 1984 |
| XML |
extensible markup language |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey