A

A.

Acre; Auto house or private garage

A IN B

Auto in basement

AA

Automobile Assn.

AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Administration; American Automobile Assn.

AACR

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

AACR2

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2d. ed.

AACCCM

Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials

AAES

American Assn. of Engineering Societies

AAG

Assn. of American Geographers

AAGS

American Assn. for Geodetic Surveying

AAG

Assn. of American Geographers

AAPG

American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists

AARLS

Arkansas Assn. of Registered Land Surveyors

AARS

Asian Assn. on Remote Sensing

AASG

American Assn. of State Geologists

AASP

American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists

ABAG

Assn. of Bay Area Governments (California)

ABET

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.

ABN

American Bank Note Company

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

ABSM

Alberta Bureau of Surveying and Mapping

Abzw

Abzweigstelle

AC

Aerospace Center; Air Corps; American Cartographer (journal)

A.C.

Antonio Castro

A/C

Aircraft

ACA

American Cartographic Assn.; American Conservation Assn.; Automovil Club Argentino; Aerial Cartographics of America (Firm)

ACACC

Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives cartographiques du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives

ACAPS

Automated Chart Production System (C&GS)

ACC

Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives; Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

AccuDEM

High-accuracy DEM

Accu-DRAPE

High-accuracy DEM Draped Images

ACDDS

Advanced Cartographic Data Digitizing System

ACE

Advanced Cartographic Equipment; Advanced Cartographic Environment (PCI Carto Inc.)

ACEC

American Consulting Engineers Council

ACG

Address Coding Guides

ACI

Assn. Cartographique Internationale = International Cartographic Assn.

ACIC

Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.); Automated Cartographic Information Center (Univ. of Minnesota Library)

ACLS

Assn. of Canadian Land Surveyors

ACM

Assn. of Computing Machinery

ACMGIS

Assn. of Computing Machinery Geographic Information Systems

ACML

Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries

ACMLA

Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives

ACMS

Automated Census Mapping System

ACM-
SIGGRAPH

Assn. of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics

ACOE

Army Corps of Engineers (U.S.)

ACRES

Australian Centre for Remote Sensing

ACRS

Asian Conference on Remote Sensing

ACS

Advanced Cartographic Systems; Agricultural Cooperative Service; Automated Cartographic Systems; Automatic chemical sprinklers; Attitude Control Subsystem (Landsat)

ACSAD

Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands

ACSC

Automobile Club of Southern California

ACSM

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping

ACSTTO

Assn. of Certified Survey Technicians and Technologists of Ontario

ACT

Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie (Luxembourg); Australian Capital Territory

AD

Administrative Division (USGS); Aeronautical data

A/D

Analog to digital

ADA

Allen Osborne Associates, Inc.

ADAC

Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club

ADAR

Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration

ADC

Alexandria Drafting Company; American Digital Cartography Inc.; Aeronautical Charting Division (C&GS)

ADDA

American Design Drafting Assn.

ADE

AutoCAD Data Extension

ADEO

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite

ADF

Application Development Facility (GeoVision Corp.)

ADFG

Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game

ADI

Areas of Dominent Influence (USBC TIGER)

ADK

Arealdatakontoret (Denmark)

ADL

Alexandria Digital Library

Adm.

Admiral; Admiralty

ADM1

First-order administrative division

ADM2

Second-order administrative division

ADNR

Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources

ADOT

Arizona Dept. of Transportation

ADOTPF

Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities

ADP

Automated data aprocessing

ADPDP

Alaska Division of Policy Development and Planning

ADR

Aerial Data Reduction Associates Inc.

ADRG

ARC-digitized raster graphics (USDMA)

ADRGs

Arc digitized raster graphics(USDMA)

ADSL

Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADT

Advanced Data Technologies, Inc.

AdV

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Lander der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

ADW

Agricultural drainage well

ADWR

Arizona Dept. of Water Resources

A/E

Architectural/engineering

A&E

Architect and Engineering

AED

Analysis and Evaluation Div.

AEF

Alliance for Environmental Education

AEG

Association of Engineering Geologists

AEI

Aerial Exposure Index

AEIDC

Arctic Environmental Information Data Center

AEM

Atmospheric Explorer Mission

AERS

Advanced Earth Resources Satellite

AES

Analysis and Evaluation Staff

AESE

Association of Earth Science Editors

AFA

American Forestry Assn.; Automatic fire alarm

AFB

Air Force base

AFCEA

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn.

AFI

American Forest Inst.

AfRL

Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Germany)

AFS

Air Force station

AFT

Ambiguity function technique

AG

Attorney General

AGC

Assn. Geologique du Canada; Arkansas Geological Commission

ACGO

Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Office

AGDS

Automated Graphics Digitizing System

AGI

American Geological Inst.; Assn. for Geographic Information (London); Analytical Graphics, Inc.

AGIC

Arizona Geographic Information Council

AGIS

Automated Geographic Information System

AgRI-
STARS

Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote Sensing

AGS

American Geographical Society

AGSO

Australian Geological Survey Organisation

AGSS

American Geographical and Statistical Society

AGU

American Geophysical Union

AHAP

Alaska High-altitude Aerial Photography (program)

AHDAS

Adaptable Hydrologic Data Acquisition System

AHRS

Attitude and Heading Reference System

AHS

Automated Highway System

AI

Artificial intelligence; Appraisal Inst.

AIA

American Inst. of Architects

AI/ANA

American Indian/Alaska Native Area

AIC

Australian Institute of Cartographers

AICP

American Inst. of Certified Planners

AID

Agency for International Development; Aeronautical information data

AIH

American Inst. of Hydrology

AILESP

American Indian Lands Environmental Support Project

AIMS

Airborne Integrated Mapping System

AIPG

American Inst. of Professional Geologists

AIR

American Indian reservation

AIREA

American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers

AIRS

Atmospheric infrared sounder

AISH

Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques = International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences

AK

Alaska

ALA

American Library Assn.

ALAE

Atmospheric LymanAlpha Emissions

ALARS

Alaska Land and Resources System

ALIS

Automated Land Information System (TVA)

ALMRS

Automated Land and Mineral Record System (BLM)

ALOHA

Aerial Locations of hazardous Atmospheres (model)

ALP

Automated Lands Project

Alt.

Altitude

ALTA

American Land Title Assn.

AMA

Associacion Mexicana Automovilistica

AMAD

Airborne Missions and Applications Division (NASA-Ames Research Center)

AMAP

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program

AMC

Assn. Mineralogique du Canada

AME

Aero-Metric Engineering Inc.

AM/FM

Automated mapping/facilities management

AMG

Australian Map Grid

AMI

Applied Mapping Inc.

AMIE

Airglow Measurements of Infrared Measurements Emissions

AMIS

Aviation Management Information System

AMISAR

Active Microwave ImagerSynthetic Aperture Radar

AML

ARC Macro Language

AMPS

Automatic Mapping and Planning System

AMS

Army Map Service; American Meteorological Society; Attitude Measurement Sensor; Automated Mapping System

AMSD

Adjusted Mapping Support Data

AMSR

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer

An.

Anno = year

A.N.A.

Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica (Mexico)

ANARE

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions

ANMS

Automated Notice to Mariners System

ANOVA

Analyses of variance

ANRC

Alaska Native Regional Corp.

ANSI

American National Standards Inst.

ANV

Alaska Native village

ANVSA

Alaska Native village statistical area

ANZLIC

Australia New Zealand Land Information Council

AO

Area of Operations

AODC

Australian Oceanographic Data Centre

AOIPS

Atmospheric and Oceanographic Image Processing System

AOL

America On Line

AOLS

Assn. of Ontario Land Surveyors

AOML

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

AOO

American Oceanographic Organization

AOSS

Ashtech Office Suite for Survey

AP

Analytical Plotter

APA

American Planning Assn.

APCA

Air Pollution Control Assn.

APCM

Aerial Photography Contract Management System

APEGGA

Assn. of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta

APFO

Aerial Photography Field Office (USDA)

API

American Petroleum Inst.; Application programming interface

APIS

Aerial Photography Information System

APMI

Aerial Photography Micrographic Index System (USGS)

Apo.

Apogee

APPSR

Aerial Photography Progress Summary Report

APQF

Aerial Photography Quad File

APR

Airborne Profile Recorder

APSR

Aerial Photography Summary Record

APSRS

Aerial Photography Summary Record System (USGS)

APT

Automatic picture transmission

APTS

Aerial Profiling of Terrain System

APWA

American Public Works Assn.

APWWA

American Public Water Works Assn.

ARA

Address Register Area; Algemeen Rijksarchief (Netherlands)

ARAMCO

Arabian American Oil Company

Arb.

Arbeiter

ARC

Ames Research Center (NASA); Appalachian Regional Commission

ARCC

American Rivers Conservation Council

ArcFM

Arc Facilities Manager (ESRI)

Arch.

Architect; Architecture

ARG

American Resources Group

ARIS

Alabama Resource Information System; Arizona Resources Information System

ARM

Administracion de Recursos Minerales (Panama); Airborne Remote Mapping

ARMIS

Arkansas Resource Management Information System

Arr.

Arrondissement

ARRSTC

Asian Regional Remote Sensing Training Centre

ARS

Agricultural Research Service

ARSC

Australian Remote Sensing Conference

ARSP

Applied Remote Sensing Program (Univ. of Arizona)

Artil.

Artillery

ARZ

AutoRestricted Zone

AS

Anti-spoofing; Area source; automatic sprinklers

A-S

Anti-spoofing

ASA

American Standards Assn.

ASAP

Advanced Scientific Array Processor; Agricultural Sciences Advisory Panel

ASB. CL.

sbestos-covered frame building

ASC

American Society of Cartographers

ASCE

American Society of Civil Engineers

ASCF

Ames Satellite Communications Facility

ASCIE

American Standard Code for Information Exchange

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCLA

Assn. of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ALA)

ASCP

America Society of Consulting Planners

ASCS

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (USDA)

ASEE

American Society for Engineering Education

ASFE

Assn. of Engineering Firms Practicing in the Geosciences; Assn. of Soil and Foundation Engineers

ASFPM

Assn. of State Floodplain Managers

ASGA

Assn. des Services Geologiques Africains

ASHTD

American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials

ASI

Analytical Surveys, Inc.

ASLA

American Society of Landscape Architects

ASLO

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

ASO

Australian Survey Office

ASP

American Society of Photogrammetry

ASPLS

Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors; Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors

ASPRS

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

ASPS

Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors

ASRL

Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory

Ass.

Association

Assn.

Association

AST

Atlantic Standard Time

ASTM

American Society for Testing Materials

AT

Aero-Triangulation

ATC

Air Target Chart; Advance Technology Corp.

ATID

Attribute ID

ATKIS

Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informationssystem

ATM

Adaptive triangular mesh

ATR1

Automatic Target Recognition module (Leica)

ATS

Advanced Technology Satellite; Applications Technology Satellite; Automated Technical Systems (Firm)

AU

Astronomical unit

AURISA

Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Assn.

AUSDEC

Australasian Data Exchange Centre

AUSLIG

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group

Av.

Avenue

AV

Audio-visual

AVCA

Audio-visual and Cartographic Archives Div., National Archives of Canada

Ave.

Avenue

AVHRR

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AVIRIS

Advanced Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer

AVL

Automatic Vehicle Location

AVNIR

Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer

AVRI

Arizona Vegetation Resource Inventory

AVS

Application Visualization System (Visual Systems, Inc.)

AWAR

Area weighted average resolution

AWG

Association for Women Geoscientists

AWIPS

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

AWMSAS

ArcView Marine Spill Analysis System

AWRA

American Water Resources Assn.

AWS

Air Weather Service

AWWA

American Water Works Assn.

AZ

Arizona

A.Z.

Alexander Zakreski

AzMAP

Arizona Mapping Advisory Council

B

Bulletin

B&L

Boggs and Lewis

BA

Booksellers Assn. of Great Britain & Ireland

BAAMA

Bay Area Automated Mapping Assn.

BADGER

Bay Area Digital GeoResource

BAKOSUR-
TANAL

Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Indonesia)= National Coordination Agency for Surveying and Mapping (Indonesia)

Banobras

Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos (Mexico)

BAOR

British Army of the Rhine

BARCIS

BARCode Information System

BARD

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database

BARP

Bundesamt fur Raumplanung (Switzerland)

BART

Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California)

BAS

British Antarctic Survey

BASIC

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Bay Area Shared Information Consortium

BB

Band-by-band; Blattbereich

BBS

Bulletin board system

BC

Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.)

BCDC

Bay Conservation and Development Commission

BCGS

Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines)

BCH

Beach

BDET

Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd.

BDG

Bridge

Bdy

Boundary

BE

Brick enclosed elevator

BEA

Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates

B.E.F.

British Expeditionary Force

BEG

Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas)

BEICIP

Bureau d'Etudes Industrielles et de Cooperation de l'Institut Francais du Petrole

bes.

besonders

Betrbf

Betriebsbahnhof

BETS

Brunson Electronic Triangulation System

BEV

Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria)

BfGR

Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Germany)

BfLR

Bundesanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumentwicklung (Germany)

BG

Block group

BGC

Business Geographics Conference

BGHT

Bight

BGN

Board on Geographic Names (U.S.)

BGS

British Geological Survey

Bgw.

Bergwerk = mine

Bhf.

Bahnhof = Railway station

BHS

Boston Harbor Software, Inc.

BIA

Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)

BICI

Book item contribution identifier

BIL

Band Interleaved by Line

BIOMAPS

Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

BIOTROP

Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Indonesia)

BIP

Band Interleaved by Pixel

Bl.

Boulevard

BLDG

Building

BLG

Binary line generalization

BLM

Bureau of Land Management (U.S.)

BLOB

Binary large object

BLPU

Basic land and property unit

BLS

Bahamas Lands and Surveys Dept.

BLT

Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland)

BLVA

Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt

Blvd.

Boulevard

BM

Bench mark; Bureau of Mines

BMA

Botswana Ministry of Agriculture

BMDO

Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (U.S.)

BMG

Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (Philippines)

.BMP

Bitmapped image format (Microsoft Corp.)

BMR

Bureau of Mineral Resources (Australia, Papua New Guinea)

BN

Biblioth`eque Nationale

BNA

Block numbering area

BND

Stream bend

BNPC

Bathymetric navigation planning chart

BNPD

Bivariate Normal Probability Density

BOA

Building omission area

BOC

Bureau of the Census

BOFRS

Books and Open-File Report Section (USGS)

BOLS

BADGER On-line Service

BOM

Bureau of Mines

BOP

Bureau of Printing

BOR

Bureau of Reclamation

BOREAS

Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study

BOSS

Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on

BP

Boundary marker (USDMA)

BPA

Bonneville Power Administration

BPI

Bits per Inch

BPPT

Badan Pembinaan dan Penerapan Teknologi (Indonesia)

BPR

Bureau of Public Roads

BPS

Bits per Second

BR

Bureau of Reclamation

br.

breit

Br.

Breite

Brck.

Brucke = bridge

BRFD

Bidirectional reflectance distribution function

BRICMICS

British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems

BRGM

Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France)

BRS

Bibliographic Retrieval Service

BS

Bureau of Statistics (Japan)

BSC

Boston Survey Consultants

BSE

Base flood elevation

BSNH

Headwater basin

BSQ

Band Sequential

BSU

Base Spatial Unit

BT

Base Topo

BTA

Basic Trading Areas (FCC)

BTS

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

BUPNIS

Beijing Underground-Network Information System

BUTE

Butte

BVG

Berliner Verkehrs Gesellschaft

BVU

Brightness Value Unit

B/W

Black and white

BWC

Bandwidth Compression

BWE

Bandwidth Expansion

C

Cartography; Celsius (degrees)

ca.

Circa

CA

California

C., A.

Antonio Castro

C/A

Coarse-Acquisition (code)

CAA

Civil Aeronautics Administration (U.S.); Civil Aviation Authority (Great Britain)

CAAD

Cartographic and Architectural Archives Div., National Archives of Canada

CAC

Center for Advanced Computation (Univ. of Illinois); Compressed Aeronautical Chart (U.S. government)

CACS

Canadian Active Control System

CAD

Computer-aided drafting; Computer assisted design

CADD

Computer-aided design and drafting

CADMAP

Computer-aided drafting, mapping, and photogrammetry

CAFF

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna

CaGIS

Cartography and Geographic Information Science (journal)); Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (journal)

CAGIS

Cartography and Geographic Information Society

CALMIT

Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln)

CALS

Connecticut Assn. of Land Surveyors; Computer-aided acquisition and logistic support; Computer Assisted Land Survey System (SPDK)

CALTRANS

California Dept. of Transportation

CAM

Computer aided mapping

CAMEO

Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations System (U.S.)

CAMFER

Center for the Assessment & Monitoring of Forest & Environmental Resources (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley)

CAP

Cooperative Agreements Program (FGDC)

CAPDU

Canadian Assn. of Public Data Users

CAR

Curriculum, Accreditation and Registration Committee (ACSM); Central African Republic

CARS

Computer-Assisted Reproduction; Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (Oklahoma State Univ.)

CASA

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Univ. College, London)

CAT

Computer Assisted Thermography

CATS

Consequences Assessment Tool Set (FEMA)

CAVA

Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Div. = Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles (DACA), National Archives of Canada

CB

Column builder

C.B.

Hollow concrete or cement block construction

CBD

Central business district

CBEP

Community-Based Environmental Protection (USEPA program)

CBET

Concrete block enclosed elevator

CBI

China Burma India Theatre of Operations (WW II)

CBL

Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Suriname); Calibration base line

cbm

Kubikmeter (cubic meter)

CBN

Cooperative Base Network

CBP

Chesapeake Bay Project

C. BR

Concrete, lime, cinder or cement brick

CBS

Community Base Station

CBWE

Corn Blight Watch Experiment

CC

Cartographic Catalog

CCA

Canadian Cartographic Assn.

CCAP

Competative Cooperative Agreements Program (U.S.)

CCBCCM

Canadian Committee for the Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials

CCC

Canadian Committee on Cataloging

CCCELS

California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors

CCD

Census county division; Computer Center Div. (USGS); Charged couple device

CCELC

Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification

CCGE

Canadian Council on Geographic Education

CCGM

Center for Computing Graphics (Delft Univ. of Technology)

CCIG

Centre canadien d'information sur la geoscience

CCID

Chain component ID

CCISA

Congress of Cartographic Information Specialist Associations

CCITT

International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee

CCLS

Canadian Council of Land Surveyors

CCNS4

Computer Controlled Navigation System (E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc.)

CCRS

Canada Centre for Remote Sensing

CCT

Computer Compatible Tape; Centro de Ciencia Tropical

CCM

Canada Centre for Mapping

CD

Compact disc; Conservation Div. (USGS)

CDA

Colorado Dept. of Agriculture

CDC

California Dept. of Conservation; Control Data Corporation

CD-CINC

CD-ROM Consistent Interface Committee (U.S.)

CDED

Canadian Digital Elevation Data

CDF

Cumulative distribution function; California Dept. of Forestry

CDFG

California Dept. of Fish and Game

CDH

Communications and data handling

CDMG

California Div. of Mines and Geology

CDN

Coordinates, definitions and notations

CDOW

Colorado Division of Wildlife

CDOWG

CD-ROM Data Origination Working Group (U.S.)

CDP

Cartographer Development Program; Census designated place; Colorado Division of Planning

.CDR

CorelDraw format

CD-R

Compact disk-recordable

CD-ROM

Compact disk-read only memory

CDT

Computer display terminal; Central Daylight Time; Constrained Delaunay triangulation

CDTED

Compressed digital terrain elevation data

CDV

Cartographic data visualizer

CD-W

Compact disk-- re-writable

CDWR

California Dept. of Water Resources

CE

Corps of Engineers

C.E.

Civil Engineer

CEAL

Centro Editor de America Latina

CEBAF

Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility

CECSVB

Comit pour l'Etablissement de la Carte des Sols et de la Vegetation de la Belgique

CECW

Consulting Engineers Council of Washington

CEDAC

Comprehensive Economic Data Atlas of China

CEDD

Committee on the Exchange of Digital Data

CEE

Comite Estatal de Estadisticas (Cuba)

CEGET

Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropical (Bordeaux)

CELSOC

Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California

Cem.

Cemetery

CEMA

Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Assn.

CEN

Comite europeen de normalization electronique

CENREN

Centro de Recursos Naturales (El Salvador)

CENTA

Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (El Salvador)

CEO

European Centre for Earth Observation

CEP

Celestial Ephemeris Pole

CERCO

Comite Europeen de Responsibles de la Cartographie Officielle

CERD

Catalog of Environmental Resource Data

CERES

California Environmental Resource Evaluation System

CERCG

Centre d'Etudes et de Realisations Cartographiques Geographiques (France)

CERR

Centre d'Ecologie des Ressources Renouvelables (France)

CES

Committee on Earth Sciences

CET

Commission on Education and Training (IGA)

CETENAL

Comision de Estudios del Territorio Nacional (Mexico)

CEU

Continuing education unit

CFCC

Census Feature Class Code

CFF

Cartographic Feature File

C.G.

Coast Guard

CGA

Color Graphics Adaptor

CGC

Commission geologique du Canada

CGDB

Central Geographic Data Base

CGDI

Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure

CGI

Computer Graphics Interface; Common gateway interface

CGIC

Canadian Geoscience Information Centre

CGIS

Center for GIS (Qatar)

.CGM

Computer graphics metafile

CGMW

Commission for the Geological Map of the World

CGNHS

Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey

CGPM

Conference General des Poids et Mesures

C&GS

Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.)

CGS

Civil GPS Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Colorado Geological Survey

CGSICO

Civil GPS Service Interface Committee

CGU

Canadian Geophysical Union

CGW

Computer Graphics World (journal)

CH

Chief Hydrologist; Church; Chapel

CHEEC

Center for the Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (Univ. of Iowa)

CHIA

Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Assessment

CHNM

Marine channel

CHS

Canadian Hydrographic Service

CI

Compass and inclinometer

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.)

CIAF

Centro de Investigaciones en Percepcion Remota

CIAS

CD-ROM Index Architecture Specification Working Group (U.S.)

CIACER

Centro de Investigacion y Aplicacion de Sensores Remotos (Bolivia)

CIB

Controlled image base

CIBESA

Cartografica Iberica S.A.

CICAEDAS

Committee Investigating Cartographic Entity, Definitions, and Standards

CIDAMM

Centro de Informacion y Documentacion del Area Metropolitana de Madrid

CIE

Iompair Eireann Coras; Classified image editor

CIESIN

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

CIG

Canadian Inst. of Geomatics; Climate Interest Group; Centro de Investigaciones Geotecnicas (El Salvador)

CIGF

Centre d'Information Geographique et Fonci`ere Ministre de l'Energie et des Ressources, Quebec)

CIGNET

Cooperative International GPS Network

CIKM

Conference on Information Knowledge Management

CIM

Collection insertion map; Council on Information Management (Virginia)

CIO

Central Imagery Office (U.S.)

CIP

Contour Interpolation Program; Canadian Institute of Planners

CIR

Color infrared

CIRSS

California Integrated Remote Sensing System

CIS

Canadian Inst. of Surveying; Color Imaging Systems (Barneyscan Corp.)

CISD

Cook Islands Dept. of Survey

CISIG

Geographic Information Systems Interest Group

CISM

Canadian Inst. of Surveying and Mapping

CIST

Centre d'information sur les sciences de la Terre (Canada)

CITYG

City Graphic

CIU

Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain)

CK-PL

Check plotter

CLD

Center line data

CLDB

Common Land Data Base

CLDS

Canada Land Data System(s)

CLI

Canada Land Inventory

CLIRSEN

Remote Sensing Center (Ecuador)

Clk.

Clerk

CLL

Corrected line length

CLOMA

Confidential letters of map amendment

CLS

Canada Land Surveyor

CLSA

California Land Surveyors Assn.

CLUMP

Canada Land Use Monitoring Program

cm

Centemeter

CM

Cartographic material; Configuration management

CMA

Census Metropolitan Area (Statistics Canada); Central Mapping Agency (New South Wales)

CMD

Current meter digitizer; Command

CMI

Corvallis Microtechnology Inc.

CMIB

Controlled multispectral image base

CMO

Canada Map Office

CMOTS

Cartographic Material Order and Tracking System (USGS)

CMP

Coastal Mapping Program; Camp

CMS

California Map Society; Clay Minerals Society

CMSA

Consolidated metropolitan statistical area

CMSDU

Commission on Map Use and Spatial Data Use (ICA)

CMSM

Committee on Marine Surveying and Mapping

CMT

Corvallis Microtechnology Inc.

C&MT

Communication & Measurement Technologies Ltd.

CMYK

Cyan-magenta-yellow-black

CNA

Comiss~ao Nacional do Ambiente (Portugal)

CNES

Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)

CNEXO

Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Oceans (France)

CNFL

Confluence

CNI

Coalition for Networked Information

CNIG

Centro Nacional de Informac~ao Geografica = Portuguese National Center for Geographic Information

CNR

Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (Italy)

CNRA

Commission on National and Regional Atlases (ICA)

CNRG

Centre National de Recherches Geomorphologiques (Belgium)

CNROA

Centro Nacional de Reconhecimento e Ordenamento Agrario (Portugal)

CNRS

Centre National de Recherches Scientifique (France)

CNRST

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (Burkina Faso)

CNSTAT

Committee on National Statistics (U.S.)

Co.

Company; County

CO

Cartometric operations; Colorado

COBOL

Common Business Oriented Language

COBRIG

Council of British Geography

COE

Corps of Engineers

COEB

Coastal and Estuarine Oceanography Branch (US NOS)

COFPAES

Committee on the Federal Procurement of Architect and Engineer Services

COFRS

Chinese Operational Earth Resources Satellite

COG

Council of Governments

COGO

Coordinate geometry

C.O.I.

Office of Coordinator of Information (U.S.)

col.

Color; colored

Col.

Colonel

COL

Agricultural colony

COLD

Computer Output to Laser (optical) Disc

Com.

Committee; Commission; Commodore

COMAP

Continuous area pattern mapping

Comdg.

Commanding

COMIS

Cartographic Operations Management Information System

COMPAS

Coastal Ocean Management, Planning and AssessmentSystem

COMSAT

Communications Satellite (corp.)

CONC.

Concrete or reinforced concrete construction

Cong.

Congress

CONRIM

Committee on Natural Resource Information Management(Alaska)

CONUS

Continental United States

COP/BOP

City of Portland Bureau of Planning

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

Corp.

Corporal; Corporation

CORS

Continuously operated reference station(s); Continuously operating GPS reference stations

CORSE

Conference on Remote Sensing Education

COS

Central Office of Statistics (Malta)

COSMIC

Computer Software Management and Information Center

COSML

Committee on Southern Map Libraries

COSPAR

Committee on Space Research

COTS

Commercial-of-the-shelf

COVIS

Commonwealth of Virginia Information Systems

CP

Cartographic Perspectives (journal); color printer

CPFS

Colorado Plateau Field Station (USGS)

CPH

Cartographic Publishing House (China)

CPID

Composite ID

CPLAR

Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (South Africa )

CPS

Characters per second; Contour plotting system; Cartographic production system

CPU

Central processing unit

CR

Central Region; Coordinate reader

CRADA

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (US Bur.of the Census)

CRAG

Columbia Region Association of Governments

CRAIGES

Cartographic Reproduction and Interactive Graphic Editing System

CRBT

Centre de Recherches Biologiques Tropicales (Algeria)

CRESP

Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (U.S.)

CRIB

Computerized Resources Information Bank

CRISTA

Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere

CRKT

Tidal creek

CRL

Cartographic research laboratory

CRN

Canadian Road Network

CRPD

City Real Property Database

CRREL

Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratories

CRTR

Crater

CRSC

California Remote Sensing Council

CRSS

Canadian Remote Sensing Society

CRT

Cathode ray tube

CS

Color scanner; Cubic splines

CSAA

California State Automobile Association

CSAC

Census Statistical Area Committee (U.S.)

CSAV

Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

CSC

Computer Sciences Corporation; Commercial Space Center (NASA)

CSDGM

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

CSFS

Colorado State Forest Service

CSG

Cartography Special Group, Assn. of American Geographers; Council of State Governments

CSIN

Computer Systems Information Network

CSIP

Continental Scale International Project

CSIR

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)

CSIC

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain)

CSML

Committee on Southern Map Libraries

CSOC

Consolidated Space Operations Center

CSP

Conformal Space projection

CSPA

Council of State Planning Agencies

CSPG

Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

CSRS

Canadian Spatial Reference System

CST

Central Standard Time; Chicago Steel Tape Co.; Coast; Certified Survey Technician

Ct.

Court

CT

Census tract

CTC

Cartoteca de Catalunya

CTCUQ

Commission de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Quebec

CTD

Chief, Topographic Division; Conductivity-temperature-depth

CTI

Critical Technologies Inst. (RAND Corp.)

CTL

Cartographic Technology Lab.

CTOG

Contour to Grid

CTS

Communications Technology Satellite (Canadian); Conventional terrestrial system

CUAC

Cartographic Users Advisory Council (U.S.)

CUET

Cuesta

CUGiK

Centralny Urzad Geodezji i Kartografii (Poland)

CUR

Council on Undergraduate Research

CUSMAP

Conterminous United States Minerals Assessment Plan

CWRA

Canadian Water Resources Program

CWS

Cartographic workstation

CYP

Cape York Peninsula

CYPLUS

Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy

CZCS

Coastal Zone Color Scanner

CZM

Coastal Zone Management (U.S. federal act of 1972)

D

Dwelling

DA

Data Acquisition; Dept. of the Army

D/A

Digital to Analog (converter)

DAAC

Div. des archives audiovisuelles et cartographiques, Archives nationales du Canada

DAAS

Defense Automatic Addressing System (USDMA)

DAASC

Defense Automated Addressing System Center (USDMA)

DAC

Digital-to-Analog Converter

DACA

Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles, Archives nationales du Canada

DACH

Deputy Assistant Chief Hydrologist

DADS

Digital Assisted Data Base System

DAG

Directorate of Geographic Affairs (Lebanon)

DAL

Data Analysis Laboratory

DAM

Detection and mapping

DAMES

Defense Automated Message Exchange Service (USDMA)

DANE

Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadstica (Colombia)

DARDC

Device for Automatic Remote Data Collection

DARO

Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (U.S.)

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S.)

DAS

Delaware Assn. of Surveyors

DA&SM

Data Acquisitions & Systems Maintenance

DAT

Digital audio tape

DATIS

Digital Airborne Topographic Imaging System

DATPE

Direction de l'Amernagement du Territoire et de la Protection de l'Environnement (Haiti)

D.A.V.

Deutscher Alpenverein

DB

Data base

DBB

Deutsche Bundesbahn

DBDB

Digital Bathymetry Data Base (U.S. government)

DBH

Diameter at breast height

DBMS

Database management system

DBPPWG

Data Base Population Planning Working Group

DBPWG

Data Base Population Working Group

DBR

Dienst Bodemkartering (Suriname)

DBS

Data Base Specifications; Direct broadcast satellites

DC

District Chief; District of Columbia; Div. Chief

D.C.

District of Columbia

DCA

Dept. of Community Affairs (Montana)

DC&A

Data Collection and Analysis

DCASS

Digital Cartographic Software System

DCDB

Digital Cartographic Data Base

DCDSTF

Digital Cartographic Data Standards Task Force (U.S.)

DCE

Data Communication Equipment; Distributed Computing Environment

DCF

Digital Cartographic File

DCHUM

Digital Chart Update Manual (USDMA)

DCI

Differential Corrections, Inc.; Director of Central Intelligence

DCN

Direccion de Cartografia Nacional (Venezuela); Document control number

DCP

Dept. of city planning; Digital Cartographic Production; Data collection platform

DCPS

Digital Cartographic Production Segment

DCR

Design Concept Review

DCS

Digital Cartography Section; Digital color separate; Directorate of Colonial Surveys (U.K.); Data collection system

DCS/RSE

Data collection system receiving site equipment

DCST

Data collection system tape

DCT

Direction Topographique et du Cadastre (Congo)

DCW

Digital Chart of the World (USDMA)

DD

Data dictionary; Dewey Decimal

DDA

Data descriptive area

DDAC

Deutscher Automobil-Club

DDC

Dewey Decimal classification; Digital data conversion

DDCMP

Digital Data Communication Message Protocol

DDES

Digital Data Editing System

DDF

Data descriptive file

DDI

Design Data Inc.

DDIS

Depository Distribution Information System (USGPO)

DDN

Defense Data Network

DDPO

Defense Dissemination Program Office (U.S.)

DDR

Data descriptive record

DDS

Digital Data Storage

DE

Data extraction

dec.

Declination

DEC

Digital Equipment Corp.

DED

Data Element Dictionary

del.

Delineation; delineator

delt.

Delineator

DEM

Digital Elevation Model; Digital elevation matrix

DEM-G

Digital Elevation Model--Graphic (coordinates)

DEM-P

Digital Elevation Model--Planar (coordinates)

DEMR

Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada

DEMVFY

Digital Elevation Model Verify (verification software)

Dep.

Deputy; Departement

DEP

Dept. of Environmental Protection

Dept.

Department

DES

Digital Editing Station

DE/S

Data Extraction Segment

DESI

Diversified Energy Services, Inc.

DFAD

Digital Feature Analysis Data (U.S. government)

DFC

Digital Futures Coalition

DFG

Dept. of Fish and Game

DFLIP

Digital Flight Information Publication

DFW

Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

DGC

Direct Geodetic Constraint (software)

DGCM

Direct Geodetic Constraint Method

DGDF

Digital Geospatial Data Files

DGEC

Direccion General de Estadistica y Censos (Costa Rica)

DGF

Dept. of Game and Fish

DGG

Direccion General de Geografia (Mexico)

DGGM

Direccion General de Geologia y Minas (Colombia)

DGGS

Div. of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (Alaska); Directorate General of Geological Surveys (Iraq)

DGI

Direktorat Geologi (Indonesia)

DGIAI

Direccion General de Integracion y Analisis de la Informacion (Mexico)

DGIS

Direct Graphics Interface Standard

DGIWG

Ditigal Geographic Information Working Group

DGfK

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kartographie

DGK 5

Deutsche Grundkarte 1:5 000

DGM

Div. des Gites Mineraux de l'Assn. Geologique du Canada; Direction de la Geologie et des Mines (Burkina Faso); Direccion General de Mineria (Dominican Republic)

DGMG

Direccion General de Minas y Geologia (Venezuela)

DGMP

Direccion de Geologia, Minas y Petrolio (Costa Rica)

DGN

Domestic geographic name

DGNR

Domestic Geographic Names Report (U.S.)

DGO

Direccion General de Oceanografia (Mexico)

DGP

Digital Graphic Product

DGPA

Direccion General de la Produccion Agraria (Spain)

DGPS

Differential Global Positioning System; Differential Global Positioning Satellite

DGRM

Direccion General de Recursos Minerales (Panama)

DGS

Dept. of Geological Survey (Botswana); Delaware Geological Survey

DGSE

Dept. of Geological Survey and Exploration (Burma)

DGU

Danmarks Geologiske Undersogelse

DH

Drill hole

D.H.

Double hydrant

DHI

Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut; Defense Hydrographic Initiative (USDMA)

DHN

Directoria de Hidrografia e Navegac~ao (Brazil)

DI

Data Integration; Digital image

DIA

Defence Intelligence Agency (U.S.); Dept. of Indian Affairs; Dept. of International Affairs

DIAL

Digital Imae Analysis Laboratory (Univ. of Arizona)

diam.

Diameter

DIAM

Defense Intelligence Agency Manual

DID

Data information delivery; Data information description; Digital Image Data

DIDS

Digital Information Display System (U.S.)

DIELOG

DAASC Integrated E-Mail Logistics System (USDMA)

DIES

Digital Image Enhancement System

DIF

Data Integration Function; Data Interchange Format; Display Information Facility; Document Interchange Format (U.S. Navy)

DIGCAT

Digital Catalog

DIM

Digital Image Matching

DIME

Dual Independent Map Encoding (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

Dinageca

Direcc~ao Nacional de Geografia e Cadastro (Mozambique)

DIP

Data Integration Program

DIPS

Digital Image Processing System

DIRS

Digital Image Rectification/Registration System

DIS

Distributed Information System

DISHIDROS

Dinas Hidro Oceanografi (Indonesia)

Dist.

District

DISTDAHS

Distributed Satellite Telemetry Data Handling System

Div.

Division

DKDGS

Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab

DL

Data logging

DLA

Diffusion-limited aggregation

DLCW

Department of Land and Water Conservation (NSW)

DLG

Digital Line Graph

DLG-E

Digital Line Graph--Enhanced

DLGF

Digital Line Graph--Framework

DLG-O

Digital Line Graph--Optional

DLG2DEM

Digital Line Graph to Digital Elevation Model (production software)

DLG-3

Digital Line Graph--level 3

DLI

Digital Library Initiative (U.S.); Data Liberation Initiative (Canada)

DLL

Windows Dynamic Link Library

DLMS

Digital Landmass System

DLNR

Dept. of Land and Natural Resources

DLS

Dominion Land Survey (Canada); Dept. of Lands and Survey (Guyana); Dept. of Lands and Surveys (Cyprus)

DLT

Digital linear tape

DLWC

Dept. of Land and Water Conservation (Australia)

DM

Departamento de Minas (Honduras); Data mining

DMA

Defense Mapping Agency (U.S.); Designated Market Areas (USBC TIGER)

DMAAC

Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center

DMAFF

Defense Mapping Agency Feature File; Defense Mapping Agency Feature Format

DMAHTC

Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Topographic Center

DMAIAGS

Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey

DMAODS

Defense Mapping Agency Office of Distribution Services

DMASPOEM

Defense Mapping Agency Special Program Office for Exploitation Modernization

DMA TC

Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (U.S.)

DMATC

Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (U.S.)

DMAUSE

DMA Utility Software Environment (USDMA)

DME

Distance measuring equipment; Dept. of Mines and Energy (Nova Scotia)

DMMR

Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources (Saudi Arabia )

DMR

Dept. of Mineral Resources (New South Wales)

DMRS

Data Management and Retrieval System

DMRT

Dept. of Mineral Resources of Thailand

DMS

Data Management System; Desktop Mapping System (R-WEL, Inc.); Drawing Management System; Defense Mapping School (USDMA); Defense Message System (USDoD); Distribution Management System

DMSI

Data Management Segment Interface Control Document

DMSO

Defense Mapping School Operations Office (USDMA)

DMSP

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DMU

Defense Mapping Unit (Singapore)

DMW

Daft, McCune, Walker

DN

Digital Number

DNC

Digital Nautical Chart

DMMG

Direccion Nacional de Mineria y Geologia (Uruguay)

DMTI

Desktop Mapping Technologies Inc.

DNPM

Departamento Nacional de Produc~ao Mineral (Brazil)

DNPCT

Direction National de Production Cartographique et Topographique (Mali)

DNR

Dept. of Natural Resources

DNRC

Dept. of Natural Resources and Conservation (Montana)

DNREP

Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (Kentucky)

DNT

Direccion Nacional de Topografia (Uruguay)

DNR

Dept. of Natural Resources

Do.

Ditto (the same)

DO

Digital Ortho; District office

DOA

Dept. of Agriculture

Doc.

Document

DOC

Dept. of Commerce

DOD

Dept. of Defense

DOE

Dept. of Energy

DOH

Dept. of Health

DOI

Dept. of the Interior; Digital object identifier; Document object identifier

DOMSAT

Domestic Communications Satellite System

DOQ

Digital orthophoto quadrangle

DOQQ

Digital orthophoto quarter quadrangle

DORIS

Decision-Oriented Resource Information System (Ventura County, Calif.)

DOS

Directorate of Overseas Surveys (U.K.); Dept. of State; Digital Orthophoto System; Disc Operating System

DOSLI

Dept. of Survey and Land Information (New Zealand)

DOT

Dept. of Transportation

DP

Data production; Digital Photogrammetry

DPE

Data processing environment; data processing equipment

DPED

Dept. of Planning and Economic Development

dpi

Dots per inch

DPI

Dots per inch

DPIE

Dept. of Primary Industries and Energy (Australia)

DPL

Data Programming Language

DPMA

Data Processing Management Assn.

DPPDB

Digital Point Positioning Data Base

DPS

DEM Production System; Digital Production System (USDMA)

Dpt.

Department

DPW

Dept. of public works

DPWS

Digital Photogrammetric Work Station

DQDB

Distributed-Queue Dual Buses

DQQ

Digital Quarter Quadrangle

Dr.

Drive

DR

Data record(s)

DRBC

Delaware River Basin Commission

DRF

Digital Raster File

DRG

Digital Raster Graphic; Davey Resource Group

DRGM

Direction des Recherches gologiques et minires (Niger)

DRGP

Digital Representation of Graphic Products

DRGS

Direct Readout Ground Station

DRO

Digital Revision Overlay

DS

Digital subsystem

DSD

Digital Sailing Directions

DSDP

Deep Sea Drilling Project

DSF

Delivery sequence file (U.S. Postal Service)

DSGM

Direcc~ao de Servicos de Geologia e Minas (Angola); Direccion del Servicio Geografico Militar (Paraguay)

DSGZ

Dept. of the Surveyor General (Zimbabwe)

DSIR

Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia, New Zealand)

DSL

Dept. of Surveys and Lands (Botswana); Data Service Laboratory

DSM

Directorate of Surveys and Mapping (South Africa )

DSN

Deep Space Network

DSP

Dept. of State Planning

DSPW

Digital Photogrammetric Workstation (USCE)

DS/S

Data Services Segment

DSU

Digital Standard Update

DTAD

Digital Terrain Analysis Data

DTD

Digital Terrain Data

DTED

Digital Terrain Elevation Data (U.S. government)

DTG

Digital tape generation

DTM

Digital Terrain Model (or Modeling)

DTOP

Digital Topographic Data

DTS

Digital transmission system

DTSS-P

Digital Topographic Support System Prototype

DTW

Desk-top Workstation

DUMC

Dutch Union Map Catalogue

DV

Daily Value

DVD

Digital video disc; Digital versitile disc

DVP

Digital Video Plotter

DW

Data warehousing

DWD

Deutscher Wetterdienst

DWR

Dept. of Water Resources

DXF

Drawing Interchange File; Digital Exchange Format

DySIS

Dynamic Software and Integrated Solutions, Inc.

D-2

National Interest Lands, Section D-2, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act

E

East; Electronic; Elevator (open); Einwohner = inhabitant

EA

Environmental assessment

EAF

East African Force (UK)

EAFS

Effective Aerial Film Speed

EAOS

Environment Australia Online Service

EAP

Environmental Affairs Program

Earthsat

Earth Satellite Corp.

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EBR

Electron Beam Recorder

EBRPD

East Bay Regional Park District (California)

ECDIS

Electronic Chart Display and Information System (U.S.)

ECE

E. Coyote Enterprises

ECEF

EarthCentered EarthFixed

Ed.

Editor; edition

ED

Elevation data; Enumeration district

E.D.

Eastern District

EDA

Electronic design automation; Exploratory data analysis

EDC

EROS Data Center (LIA); Electronic digital computer; Environmental Data Center (California)

EDD

Environmental Data Directory (Australia)

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange; Electronic Devices Inc.

EDIES

EROS Digital Image Enhancement Systems

EDIFACT

Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport

EDIPS

EROS Digital Image Processing System

EDIS

Environmental Data and Information Service; Electrical Distribution Information System (Santee Cooper)

EDITOR

ERTS Data Interpretation and Tenex Operations Recorder

EDM

Electronic distance measurement

EDMAS

Environmental Dose Modeling and Analysis System

EDMI

Electronic distance measuring instrument(s)

EDMS

Electronic document management system(s)

EDP

Electronic data processing

EDS

Electronic Data Systems Corp.; Engineering Design System; Environmental Data Service (NOAA)

EDT

Eastern Daylight Time

EEC

European Economic Community

EEZ

Exclusive Economic Zone

E.F.

Eisenbahnfaehre

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adaptor

EGIS

European GIS

EGNOS

European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

EGS

European Geophysical Society; Economic geology series

EGSMA

Geological Survey and Mining Authority (Egypt)

EHS

Extremely hazardous materials

EIGS

Ethiopian Inst. of Geological Survey

EIM

Environmental information management

eingesch.

eingeschossig

eis.

eisern = iron

EIS

Environmental Impact Statement

Eisb. Brck.

Eisenbahnbrucke = Railroad bridge

EIWG

Earth Imaging Working Group

ELC

End of line code

ELMO

Electronic Map Ordering

El.W.

Elektrizitatswerk = electric power station

EM

Electromagnetic

E.M.

Mining Engineer

EMA

Environmental Management Agency; Ethopian Mapping Authority

EMAIL

Electronic Mail

EMAP

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S. EPA)

EMC

Eastern Mapping Center (USGS)

EMIP

European Market for Infrastructural Projects

EMPS

Elevation Matrix Processing System

EMR

Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; Electromagnetic radiation

EMS

Electromagnetic spectrum

E.N.E.

East-northeast

Eng. Dept.

Engineering Dept.; Dept. of Engineers

Engr. Bn.

Engineer Battalion

ENIAK

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

ENID

Endnote ID

ENTR

Entrance

ENVISAT

Environmental Satellite

EO

Earth observation

EOCAP

Earth Observations Commercial Applications Program

EODMS

Earth Observations Data Management Systems

EOF

End of File

EOS

Earth Observing System; Greek National Mountaineering Assn.

EOSAT

Earth Observation Satellite (Company)

EOSDIS

Earth Observing System Data and Information System

EOT

End of Text

EP

End Point

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)

EPB

Earth Physics Branch (Canada)

EPI

Electronic Position Indicator

EPIRB

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript

ERBS

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

ERCE

Groupe d'Etudes de Recherches Critiques d'Espace (Universite du Quebec, Montreal)

ERDAS

Earth Resources Data Analysis System

ERDC

Earth Resources Data Center (ERIM)

ERDL

Engineer Research and Development Laboratories

EREP

Earth Resources Experiment Package (Skylab)

ERIM

Environmental Research Inst. of Michigan

ERIN

Earth Resources Information Network; Environmental Resource Information Network (Australia)

ERIS

Earth Resources Inventory System; Earth Resources Infomation System

ERL

Environmental Research Laboratories (NOAA); Earth Resources Laboratory (NASA)

ERLAS

Earth Resources Laboratory Application Software

ERM

Earth Resource Mapping (Firm)

EROS

Earth Resources Observation Satellite; Earth Resources Observation System

ERRSAC

Eastern Regional Remote Sensing Applications Center (NASA)

ERS

Earth Remote Sensing (satellite)

ERSAC

Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Centre (United Arab Emirates)

ERSAL

Environmental Remote Sensing Analysis Laboratory (Oregon State Univ.)

ERSAR

Earth Resources Synthetic Aperture Radar

ERSC

Egyptian Remote Sensing Center

ERSP

Epipolar Rectified Stereo Pair

ERTS

Earth Resources Technology Satellite

ERSUN

Environmental Remote Sensing Unit (British Aerospace Space Systems, Ltd.)

ESA

Egyptian Survey Authority; European Space Agency

ESC

European Seismological Commission

ESCAP

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

ESD

Engineering Services Dept. (Qatar)

ESDA

Earth Sciences Data Standards (council)

ESDD

Earth Science Data Directory (USGS)

E.S.E.

East-southeast

ESI

EagleScan Inc.; Enironmental Sensitivity Index

ESIC

Earth Science Information Center (USGS); Earth Sciences Information Centre (Canada)

ESIG

Exemplary Systems in Government award (URISA)

ESIM

Earth Science Information Manager

ESIN

Earth Science Information Network

ESIO

Earth Science Information Office

ESIS

Earth Science Information System

ESL

Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc.

ESR

Engineering Surveys Reproduction Ltd.

ESRI

Environmental Systems Research Inst., Inc.

ESSA

Environmental Science Service Administration

ESSC

Earth System Science Center (Pennsylvania State Univ.)

E. St.

Eisenbahn Station = railway station

EST

Eastern Standard Time

ES&T

Environmental Science and Technology

E.S.W.

East-southwest

ET

Frame enclosed elevator with self-closing traps

ETF

European Transfer Format

ETL

Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USCE)

ETM

Enhanced Thematic Mapper

EUROGI

European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information

EVO

Ernst Volker (Oldenburg, Germany)

Ex. doc.

Executive document

F

Fahrenheit; Flat

FA

Fire alarm box

FAA

Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.)

FAAT

Fully Analytical Aerotriangulation

FAC

Feature analysis code(s)

FACC

Feature and Attribute Coding Catalog

FACE

Field Ancillary Computer Effort

FACM

Florida Assn. of Cadastral Mappers

FACS

Feature Attribute Coding Standard; Feature Attribute Coding System

Fahrb.

Fahrbahn = roadway

FAO

Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations)

FAQ

Frequently Asked Question(s)

FARC

Federal Archives and Record Center

Fb.

Fabrik = Factory

FB

Freytag-Berndt und Artaria

FBN

Federal base network (U.S.)

FC

Field component; Field completion

FCC

False color composite; Federal Communications Commission (U.S.)

FCM

Feature change map

FCT

Forestry Commission Tasmania

FCW

Federal Computer Week (journal)

FDDI

Fiber Digital Data Interface

FDLP

Federal Depository Library Program (US GPO)

FDLS

Fiji Dept. of Lands and Survey

FDPP

Framework Demonstration Projects Program (FGDC)

FE

Feature extraction; Field engineer; Frame enclosed elevator

F.E.

Forest Engineer

fe.

Fecit (maker)

FEAT

Alternate Feature Identification Code

fec.

Fecit (maker)

FED

Field-emission displays

FEE

Feature Extraction Environment

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency (U.S.)

FEP

Feature Extraction Processor

FES

Feature Extraction Segment

FESWMS

Finite Element Surface Water Model System

FEWS

Feature Extraction Workstation

FGCC

Federal Geodetic Control Committee (U.S.)

FGCS

Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee (U.S.)

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee (U.S.)

FGEF

Federal Geographic Exchange Format (U.S.)

F.G.S.

Fellow of the Geological Society

FGS

Florida Geological Survey

FGT

Federal Geographic Technology (U.S.)

FH

Field headquarters

FHA

Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)

FHWA

Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)

FICCDC

Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography (U.S.)

FIG

Federation Internationale des Geom`etres = International Federation of Surveyors

FII

Fundacion Instituto de Ingeneiria

FILS

Federal Government Information Locator System

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard(s); Flagstaff Image Processing System

FIRM

Flood Rate Insurance Map

FIRMS

Flood Rate Insurance Maps

FL

Florida; Focal length; Function libraries

FLHO

Federal Lands Highway Office (U.S.)

FLIMAP

Fast Laser Imaging Mapping and Profiling (system)

FLIR

Forward-looking Infrared

FLL

Waterfall

FLOPS

Floating Point Operations per Second

FM

Facilities management; Field manual

F.M.

Field Marshall

FMC

Federal Maritime Commission (U.S.)

FME

Feature manipulation Engine (Safe Software Inc.)

FMGIS

Flight management geographic information system

FMLIS

Federal Mineral Lands Information System

FMP

Field Pack Mobile Professional (All Points Software)

FMS

Facility Mapping Systems Inc.; Flight Managing System

FMS/AC

Facility Mapping System for AutoCAD

FNESA

Federation of New England Surveyors Assn.s

FO

Field office

F.O.

Field Officer; Foreign Office

FOC

Full operational capability

FOGs

Fiber Optic Gyros

FOM

Field Operations Manual

FORTRAN

Formula Translation (computer language)

FOUO

For official use only

FOV

Field of view

FPC

Federal Power Commission; Federal Publishers Committee

FPT

Full production training

FPU

Floating point unit

FRA

Federal Railroad Administration

FRC

Federal Records Center

F.R.G.S.

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

FRM

Farm

FRP

Federal Radio-navigation Plan

F.R.S.

Fellow of the Royal Society

FS

Fire station; Forest Service (U.S.); Federal Survey Div. (Nigeria)

FSLUPC

Federal/State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska

FSMS

Florida Surveying and Mapping Society

FSO

Field Support Office (U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories)

FSPLS

Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors

FSR

Flight Summary Report

FSRAMIS

Forest Service Range Management Information System

FT

Field terminator

Fth.

Fathom

FTM

Foiben Taosarintanin' i Madagasikara

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FU

Field unit

Fur.

Furlong

Fw.

Fussweg = Footpath

FWPCA

Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (U.S.)

FWS

Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.)

FZDS

Flood Zone Determination Services

G

Geometry

G&M

Geography and Map; geography and Map Div.

G&O

Greenhorne & O'Mara Inc.

GA

Geographic access; Geographical Association

GAF

Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Fernerkundung

GAC

Geological Assn. of Canada

GAP

Geographic Application Program; Gap Analysis Program (USNBS)

GAT

Geography Assn. of Thailand

GB

Gigabyte; Geologische Bundesansalt (Austria)

GBA

GeoBusiness Assn.

GBf

Guterbahnhof = freight depot

GBF

Geographic Base File

GBI

Green biomass index

GBIS

Geo-Based Information System

Gbo.

Grabador = engraver

GBS

Geograpic Base System

GCCS

Global Command, Control System (USDMA)

GCDB

Geographic Coordinate Data Base (U.S.)

GCDIS

Global Change Data and Information System

GCG

Geocartographics Subdivison (Canada)

GCHC

Gulf Coast Hydroscience Center (U.S.)

GCM

General circulation model; Global climate model; General Command of Mapping (Turkey)

GCP

Ground control point(s)

GCRA

Geographic and Cartographic Research and Applications Section

GCT

Greenwich Civil Time

GCTP

General Coordinate Transformation Package (software); Geographic Coordinate Transformation Package (software)

GD

Geologic Div. (USGS); Geospatial data; Graphic digitization

GDA

Geographic Data Analysis System

GDC

Geographic Data Council

GDD

Graphics Data Display Manager

GDE

Graphic Developer's Engine (FCAD Software, Inc.)

GDF

Geographic data file

GDHS

Ground Data Handling System (GFSC)

GDM

Geospatial data management

GDS

Graphic Data Systems Corp; Grumman Data Systems; Geo-Data System; Geographic Data Service (U.S.)

GDT

Geographic Data Technology Inc.

GDTA

Groupement pour le Developpement de la Teledetection Aerospatiale (France)

GE

General Electric; Geographic equivalent

GEBCO

General bathymetric chart of the oceans = Carte generale bathymetrique des oceans

GEDS

General Environmental Data Base System (Florida)

GEGMR

General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources (Syria)

GEM

Graphical Environment Manager

GEMS

Global Environment Monitoring System

GEOBAL

Servicio Geologico de Bolivia

GEO-CAT

Geographic catalog of political and statistical areas

Geocorr

Geographic Correspondence Engine

Geog.

Geography

Geol.

Geology

GEOLAN

Geological (survey) local area network

GEOREF

Geological Reference (system)

GEOS

Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite

GEOSAT

Geodesy Satellite

GEOSEC

Geographic Security

GeoTMS

Geographic Town Management System (Des Lauriers & Assoc. Inc.)

GEOZAVOD

Zavod za Geoloska i Geofizicksa Istrazivanja (Yugoslavia)

Ges.

Gesamt-

GES

Geographic Entry System

GFDL

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)

GGMC

Guyana Geology and Mines Commission

GGNRA

Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)

GGS

Georgia Geologic Survey

GGU

Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse

GI

Geographic information

GIA

Geographic information analysis; Geographic information and analysis; GPS International Assn.

GIAC

Geomatics Industry Assn. of Canada

GIAL

Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo)

GIB

Geographic Information Board (Florida); Geomagnetic Indices Bulletin; G.I. Barnett & Son

GICC

Geographic Information Coordinating Committee (Colorado)

GICS

Geographic Identification Code Scheme

GID

Geodaetisk Institut (Denmark)

GIDW

General inverse-distance weighted interpolation model

.GIF

Graphics Interchange File; Graphics Interchange Format

GIG

Geologic Inquiries Group

GILS

Government Information Locator Service

GIMS

Geographic Information Management Systems Committee (ASCM/ASPRS)

GIO

Geograpic Investigations Office (USGS)

GIPS

Generalized Image Processing Sytstem

GIRAS

Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System (USGS)

GIS

Geographic(al) information system(s); Geohydrologic Information System; Geoscience Information Society; Global Indexing System

GISDEX

Federal Geographic Information and Spatial Data Exposition and Conference (U.S.)

GISMO

GIS MOdeling (ERDAS)

GISOM

Generating Information and Scanning Ohio Maps (Ohio State Univ. Center for Mapping)

GISS

Goddard Institude of Space Studies

GIST

Geographic Information System for Transportation

GITA

Geospatial Information & Technology Assn.

GIV

Geologic Information Visualization (software)

GKP

Geodeticky a Kartograficky Podnik v Praze

GKS

Graphics Kernal System

Gl.

Gleis

GLAB

Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt

GLAB-W

Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg

GLAI

Green leaf area index

GLAN-W

Geologisches Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen

GLAS

Geoscience Laser Altimeter System; Geologisches Landesamt des Saarlandes

GLAS-H

Geologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein

GLI

Global Imager

GLIS

Geographic Land Information System (USGS); Geographic and Land Information Society

GLM

General linear model

GLO

General Land Office (U.S.)

GLONASS

Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (Russia)

GLOSS

Global Observation Surveillance System

GLR-P

Geologisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz

GLRS

Geoscience Laser Ranging System

GM

Geography and Map; Geologic map

GMAT

Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time

GMD

Geologisch Mijnbouwkundige Dienst van Suriname

GME

Geohydrologic Map Editor

GMR

Government Micro Resources Inc.

GMS

Geostationary meteorological satellite(s)

G.M.S.I.

Ground Modeling Systems Inc.

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

G.M.T.

Giuseppi Maria Terreni

GN

Grid north

GNC

Geologic Names Committee; Global navigation chart

GNIS

Geographic Names Information System (U.S.)

GNMP

Gettysburg National Military Park

GNS

GEOnet Names Server (USNIMA)

GNSS

Global Navigation Satellite System

GNU

Geologic Names Unit (USGS)

GNULEX

Geologic Names Unit Lexicon (USGS)

GO

Geometric Operations

G&O

Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.

GODORT

Government Documents Round Table (ALA)

GOES

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NASA)

GOME

Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

GOMS

Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite(s)

Gov.

Governor

Gov. Gen.

Governor General

GP

Graphic production; Graphics processor; Geography Program (USGS)

GPF

Geospatial Prototype Facility

GPG

Graphic Product Generation

GPH

Geological Publishing House (China)

GPI

Graphics Programming Interface

GPIP

General Purpose Image Processor

GPM

Gestalt Photo Mapper

GP.MC

Geoprocessing Map Call

GP.MCD

Geoprocessing Map Call Deamon program

GPO

Government Printing Office

GPOS

Government Printing Office Style Manual

GPPU

Graphic Polygon Processing Utilities

GPR

Ground-Penetrating Radar

GPS

Global positioning system(s)

GPSDR

Global positioning system demonstration receiver

GPSIC

Global Positioning System Information Center (U.S. Coast Guard); GPS Industry Council

GPST

Global positioning system time

GQ

Geologic quadrangle

gr.

gross

Gr.

Grosse

GRAMPS

Graphic Map Production System

GRASS

Geographic Resource Analysis Support System

GRC

Generation of reproducible copy; Geoscience Research Corp.

GRD

Ground Resolved Distance

GRDL

Geodetic Research and Development Laboratory

GRF-N

Geographic Reference File-Names

GRIDS

Grid Referenced Information Display System; Gridded Resource Inventory Data System

GRS

Geodetic Reference System

GRS 80

Geodetic Reference System of 1980

GRSU

Geography Remote Sensing Unit (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)

GS

Geological Survey (U.S.); Gray scale

GSA

General Services Administration (U.S.); Geological Society of America; Geological Survey of Alabama

GSC

Geographic Systems Corp.; Geological Survey of Canada; Geotronics Service Center

GSD

Ground sample distance; Geological Survey Dept. (Malawi); Geological Survey Div. (Jamaica); Geodetic Survey Div. (Natural Resources Canada)

GSDM

Global Spatial Data Model

GSDS

Global spatial data system

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)

GSGS

Geographical Section, General Staff (U.K.)

GSI

Geodetic Survey Inst. (Japan); Geophysical Services Inc.; Geological Survey of India; Geological Survey of Iran; Geolical Survey Inst. (Japan); Geological Survey of Ireland

GSJ

Geological Survey of Japan

GSK

Geological Survey of Kenya

GSL

Geographic Sciences Laboratory (USCE)

GSM

Graphic Standard Metafile

GSMD

Geological Survey and Mines Dept. (Swaziland)

GSN

Geological Survey of Namibia

GSNI

Geological Survey of Northern Ireland

GSP

Geological Survey of Pakistan; Geographical statistics program

GSPB

Geodetic Satellite Policy Board

GSPNG

Geological Survey Papua New Guinea

GSRC

Geological Survey Research Committee

GSS

Geographic support system

GSSA

Geological Survey South Africa

GSW

Geological Survey of Wyoming

GSZ

Geological Survey of Zambia

GT

Geometry and topology; Greater than; Geologian Tutkimuskeskus = Geological Survey of Finland

G.T.

Gas tank

GTE

Greater than or equal

GTI

GIS Technology Inc.

GTUB

Geographic tabulation unit base

GU

Government unit

GUDS

Geologicky ustav Dionyz Stur

GUGK

Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartografii (USSR)

GUGKK

Glavno Upravlenie po Geodezia I Kartografia y Kadaster (Bulgaria)

GUI

Graphical User Interface

GUNI

Goteborgs Universitet Naturgeografiska Institutionen

GUNO

Glavnoe Upravlenie Navigatsii i Okeanografii (USSR)

GVF

Goodness of variance fit

GVI

Green vegetation index

GVIS

Geographic Visualization

GW

Gas well (natural); Ground water

GWE

Global Weather Experiment

GWEN

Ground Wave Emergency Network (U.S.)

GWSI

Groundwater site inventory

h.

hoch = high

H.

Hohe = height

ha.

Hektar

HA

Hydrologic Atlas

HAC

Harbor and Approach Chart

HALS

Hawaii Assn. of Land Surveyors

HARN

High-Accuracy Reference Network (U.S.)

Hbf

Hauptbahnhof = main railway station

HBF

Herbert Bismarck Foster

HBM

Hydrologic bench mark

HBMN

Hydrologic Bench Mark Network

HC

Hard copy

HCC

Heat Capacity Mapping Mission

HCDN

Hydroclimate Data Network

HCMM

Heat-capacity Mapping Mission

HCMR

Heat-capacity Mapping Radiometer

HCRS

Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service (U.S.)

HD

Hydrographic Dept. (Great Britain)

HDDT

High-Density Digital Tape

HDLD

Headland

HDOP

Horizontal Dilution of Precision

HDT

High density tape

HDT-A

High density tape (not geometrically corrected)

HDTR

High density tape recorder

HDTV

High-definition television

Herst.

Herstellung

HE/S

Hardcopy Exploitation Segment

HF

High frequency

HFA

Hydrologic field assistant

Hfn

Hafen = port, harbor

Hgbf

Hauptgueterbahnhof

HGCSD

Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (U.S.)

.HGL

Newlett-Packard Graphics Language format

HGS

Halliburton Geophysical Services

HI

Hawaii

HIA

Hydrologic Investigations Atlas

HIF

Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility

Hind.

Hindustan

HIRAN

High Range Navigation

HIRS

High-resolution Infrared Sounder

HIS

Hydrologic Information System

HISS

Heritage Information Statistical System

HIT

Horizons Technolgy Inc.

HIU

Hydrologic Information Unit

HJW

Hammon, Jensen, Wallen & Associates

HKGA

Hong Kong Geographical Assn.

HLAB

Hessisches Landesamt fur Bodenforschung

HLfB

Hessisches Landesamt fur Bodenforschung

HLL

Hill

HLLS

Hills

HLR

High level radiation; High level radioactivity

HLS

Hue, lightness and saturation

HLVA

Hessisches Landesvermessungsamt

HLW

High level waste (radioactivity)

HMCK

Hummock

HMGS

Hellenic Military Geographical Service

HMSO

Her/His Majesty's Stationery Office (Great Britain)

H.O.

Hochofen = blast furnace

HOM

Hotine oblique Mercator

Hon.

Honorable

Hp

Haltepunkt = stopping place

HP

Hewlett-Packard (corp.)

HPFS

High pressure fire service

HPGL

Hewlett Packard Graphics Language

HPGN

High-Precision Geodetic Network

HPP

High Precision Photogrammetry

HPRASA

High Plains Regional Aquifer System

HQ

Headquarters

HR

House of Representatives

HRB

Highway Research Board

HRD

High-resolution data

HRDB

High-resolution Data Base

HRDI

High-resolution Doppler Imager

HRFRS

High-resolution Film Recorder Subsystem

HRGA

High Rate Geographical Areas

HRIR

High-resolution Infrared Radiometer

HRMSI

High Resolution Multispectral Stereo Imager

HRV

High Resolution Visible

HRVIR

High Resolution Visible Infrared (scanner)

HS

High school

HSDL

High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

HSI

Horizontal Situation Indicator; Habitat Suitability Index

H. St.

Eisenbahn Haltstelle = railway stop

HTC

Hydrographic Topographic Center (USDMA)

H., T.C.

Thomas Campanius Holm

HTDP

Horizontal Time-Dependent Positioning

HTI

Horizons Technology, Inc.

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

HUA

Hydrologic Unit Area

HUC

Hydrologic Unit Code

HUD

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.)

Hund.

Hundred

H.W.

Hochwasser

H/W

Hardware

I.

Island

IACWD

Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEG

International Assn. of Engineering Geologists

IAG

International Assn. of Geodesy

IAGS

Inter-American Geodetic Survey

IAH

International Association of Hydrogeologists

IAHS

International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences = Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques

IALA

International Assn. of Lighthouse Authorities

IALS

Idaho Assn. of Land Surveyors

IAOO

International Assn. of Assessing Officers

IASI

Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer

IAT

Image Annotation Tape; International Atomic Time

IAWPRC

International Assn. for Water Pollution Research and Control

IB

Isobar

IBC

International Boundary Commission (U.S.-Canada)

IBDF

Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvimento Florestal

IBG

Inst. of British Geographers

IBGE

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estadistica

IBIS

Image-Based Information System

IBM

International Business Machines (corp.)

IBRD

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)

IBSP

Idaho Bureau of State Planning

IBWC

International Boundary and Water Commission (Mexico-U.S.)

IC

Integrated circuit(s)

ICA

International Cartographic Assn. = Assn. Cartographique Internationale

ICACET

International Cartographic Assn. Committee on Training

ICAITI

Instituto Centro Americano de Investigacion y Tecnica Industrial

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organiztion

ICC

Institut Cartografic de Catalunya; Interstate Commerce Commission (U.S.); International Cartographic Conference

ICCP

Inst. for Certification of Computer Professionals

ICE

Information Center for the Environment (UCD)

ICED

Intraprofessional Council on Environmental Design

ICES

Institution of Civil Engineers (UK); Initial Graphics Exchange Specifications

ICEX

Ice and Climate Experiment

ICGC

Instituto Cubano de Geodesia y Cartografia

ICGWM

International Clearinghouse for Ground Water Models

ICITV

Institut de la Carte International du Tapis Vegetale

ICM

Instituto Geografico Militar

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

ICMSSR

Interagency Committee on Meteorological Services and Supporting Research

ICONA

Instituto Nacional para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (Spain)

ICR

Intelligent Character Reader

ICT

Information and communication technologies

ICW

International Computer Works, Inc.

ID

Identification; Interface device; Idaho

IDAS

Image Data Analysis Systems

IDC

International Data Corp.

IDCCC

Interior Digital Cartographic Coordination Committee (U.S.)

IDD

Information and data dissemination

IDE

Imbedded Drive Electronics

IDEN

Identification module

IDFG

Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game

IDIMS

Interactive Digital Image Manipulation System

IDL

Interactive Data Language; Idaho Dept. of Lands

IDLH

Immediately dangerous to life and health

IDR

Interface drawing

IDS

Information Decision Systems (firm)

IDWO

Intelligence Div., War Office (U.K.)

IDWR

Idaho Dept. of Water Resources

IEMVT

Institut d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux

IEP

Independent electric plant

IERS

International Earth Rotation Service

IES

Inst. for Environmental Sciences

IF

Frame identification

IfAG

Institut fur Angewandte Geodasie

IFF

Interchange Format File (Commodore Amiga)

IFLA

International Assn. of Library Asociations and Institutions

IFN

Service de l'Inventaire Forestier National (France)

IFOV

Instantaneous Field of View

IFP

Institut Francais de Pondicherry; Institut Francais du Petrole

IFR

Instrument Flight Regulation

IFREMER

Institut francais de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer

ISFAR

Inter-ferometric Synehetic Aperture Radar

IFSARE

Inter-ferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Elevation

IG

Instytut Geologiczny (Poland)

IGA