DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

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DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

By Philip Hoehn and Mary Lynette Larsgaard (Map & Imagery Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara Library). Designed by John Creaser

This dictionary decodes abbreviations and acronyms found in various publications including maps and websites. These abbreviations or acronyms, therefore, are not necessarily authoritative or standardized in format or content.

Phil Hoehn (philhoehn at juno com)
Mary Lynette Larsgaard (mary at library ucsb edu)

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A	Army
A IN B	Auto in basement
AA	Antiaircraft artillery; 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
AARSE	African Association for the Remote Sensing of the Environment
AASG	Assn. of American State Geologists
AASP	American Assn. of Stratigraphic Palynologists
AB	Air base
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
ACC	Association canadienne de cartographie
AC&C	Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography (U.S.)
ACCDTS	Advisory Committee on Canadian Digital Toponymic Services
AccuDEM	High-accuracy DEM
Accu-DRAPE	High-accuracy DEM Draped Images
ACD	Aeronautical Charting Division (C&GS)
ACDDS	Advanced Cartographic Data Digitizing System
ACE	Advanced Cartographic Equipment; Advanced Cartographic Environment (PCI Carto Inc.)
ACEC	American Consulting Engineers Council
ACG	Association canadienne des geographes; 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)
ACIU	Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain)
ACLS	Assn. of Canadian Lands Surveyors
ACM	Assn. for Computing Machinery
ACMGIS	Assn. for 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. for 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); American Community Survey (USBC)
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
ADAC	Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club
ADAR	Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration (Positive Systems, Inc.)
ADC	Alexandria Drafting Company; American Digital Cartography Inc
A-DCS	Advanced/Data Collection System
ADDA	American Design Drafting Assn.
ADE	AutoCAD Data Extension
ADEOS	Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
ADEPT	Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype
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 processing
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)
ADS	Aerial Data Service (firm)
ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Ad. St.	Aldolf Stieler
ADT	Advanced Data Technologies, Inc.; Abstract Data Type
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
AEC	Architecture, engineering and construction
AED	Analysis and Evaluation Div.
AEF	Alliance for Environmental Education; Accurate Environmental Forecasting, Inc.
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
Aest.	Aestuarium = Estuary
AE²S	Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
AFA	American Forestry Assn.; Automatic fire alarm
AFB	Air Force base; Aerial FotoBank (Firm)
AFCEA	Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn.
AFE	Automated feature extraction
AFF	American Fact Finder (DADSO)
AFFRC	Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center (Japan)
AFI	American Forest Inst.
AFLAG	Asean Federation of Land Surveying and Geomatics
AFREF	African Geodetic Reference Frame
AfRL	Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Germany)
AFS	Air Force station
AFT	Ambiguity function technique
AFWA	Air Force Weather Agency (U.S.)
AG	Attorney General
AGC	Army Geospatial Center (US); Assn. Geologique du Canada; Arkansas Geological Commission
AGCHO	Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office
AGCO	Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Office
AGDS	Automated Graphics Digitizing System
AGI	American Geological Inst.; Assn. for Geographic Information (London); Analytical Graphics, Inc.
AGIC	Alabama Geographic Information Council; Arizona Geographic Information Council
AGILE	Association of Geographic Information Laboratories
AGIO	Arkansas Geographic Information Office
AGIS	Automated Geographic Information System
AgRI- STARS	Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote Sensing
AGS	American Geographical Society; Alberta Geological Survey
AGSL	American Geographical Society Library
AGSO	Australian Geological Survey Organisation
AGSS	American Geographical and Statistical Society
AGU	American Geophysical Union
AHAP	Alaska High-altitude Aerial Photography (program)
AHCPR	U.S. Agency for Health Care and Policy Research
AHDAS	Adaptable Hydrologic Data Acquisition System
AHDS	Arts and Humanities Data Service
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; Automated Investigation Measurement System (Nikon)
AIPG	American Inst. of Professional Geologists
AIPP	Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection
AIR	American Indian reservation
AIRB	Alabama Inspection and Rating Bureau
AIRS	Atomspheric Infrared Sounder
AIREA	American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers
AIRS	Atmospheric infrared sounder
AISH	Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques = International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences
AJG	African Journal of Geoinformation
AK	Alaska
AL	Alabama
Ala.	Alabama
ALA	American Library Assn.
ALAE	Atmospheric LymanAlpha Emissions
ALARS	Alaska Land and Resources System
ALI	Advanced Land Imager
ALIS	Automated Land Information System (TVA)
ALMRS	Automated Land and Mineral Record System (US BLM)
ALOHA	Aerial Locations of hazardous Atmospheres (model)
ALP	Automated Lands Project
ALSA	Alberta Land Surveyors Association
Alt.	Altitude
ALTA	American Land Title Assn.
ALTM	Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper (Optech)
ALTMS	Airborne Laser Topographic Mapping System
AM	Automated Mapping
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; Australian Map Circle Inc.
AME	Aero-Metric Engineering Inc.
AM/FM	Automated mapping/facilities management
AMG	Australian Map Grid; Automated machine guidance
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
AMPR	American Map Price Record
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
AMSU	Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (JPL)
An.	Anno = year
A.N.A.	Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica (Mexico)
ANA	Area Navigation Approach
ANAE	Atlas of North American English
ANARE	Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
ANGEL	Airborne Natural Gas Emission Lidar (ITT)
ANTGS	Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System
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
ANWR	Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
ANZLIC	Australia New Zealand Land Information Council
ANZMapS	Australian and New Zealand Map Society
AO	Area of Operations
AOA	Allen Osborne Associates, Inc.
AODC	Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
AOI	Area of Interest
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.
APBEL	Atlantic Provinces Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors
APCM	Aerial Photography Contract Management System
APD	Automated Plat Design (ConneXt, Inc.)
A.P.D.R.	Avec privilege du Roi = By license of the King
APE	Allen Precision Equipment
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
APS	Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor
APSR	Aerial Photography Summary Record
APSRS	Aerial Photography Summary Record System (USGS)
APT	Automatic picture transmission; Area proportional to
APTS	Aerial Profiling of Terrain System
APWA	American Public Works Assn.
APWWA	American Public Water Works Assn.
AR	Arkansas
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
Arc-SDE	Arc Spatial Data Engine
ARG	American Resources Group
ARIA	Arizona Regional Image Archive
ARIS	Alabama Resource Information System; Arizona Resources Information System
Ark.	Arkansas
ARM	Administracion de Recursos Minerales (Panama); Airborne Remote Mapping
ARMIS	Arkansas Resource Management Information System
ARMS	Agricultural Resource Management System (Canada)
Arr.	Arrondissement
ARRSTC	Asian Regional Remote Sensing Training Centre
ARS	Agricultural Research Service (USDA)
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
ASAR	Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
ASB. CL.	Asbestos-covered frame building
ASC	American Society of Cartographers
ASCE	American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE SMD	American Society of Civil Engineers Surveying and Mapping Division
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)
ASDD	Australian Spatial Data Directory
ASDI	Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure
ASEE	American Society for Engineering Education
ASF	Alaska SAR Facility
ASFE	Assn. of Soil and Foundation Engineers
ASFPM	Assn. of State Floodplain Managers
ASGA	Assn. des Services Geologiques Africains
ASGC	Australian Statistical Geographical Classification
ASGS	Australian Statistical Geography Standard
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
ASMC	Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference
ASO	Australian Survey Office
ASP	American Society of Photogrammetry; Application service provider
ASPG	American Society for Professional Geographers
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; Automated Summary Tables
ASTER	Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
ASTM	American Society for Testing Materials
AT	Aero-Triangulation
ATC	Air Target Chart; Advance Technology Corp.
ATID	Attribute ID
ATIS Roads	Arizona Transportation Information System (ADOT)
ATKIS	Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informationssystem
ATM	Adaptive triangular mesh
ATMET	Atmospheric, Meteorological and Environmental Technologies, LLC
ATMS	Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
ATON	Aids to Navigation
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
AUV	Autonomous underwater vehicle
AUVSI	Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
Av.	Avenue
AV	Audio-visual; AmericaView
AVCA	Audio-visual and Cartographic Archives Div., National Archives of Canada
Ave.	Avenue
AVHRR	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVI	Audio Visual Interleave
AVIRIS	Advanced Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer
AVL	Automatic Vehicle Location
AVNIR	Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer
AVO	Alaska Volcano Observatory; Audio/visual object; Amplitude Versus Offset;
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
AWLS	American West Land Surveying (Firm)
AWMC	Ancient World Mapping Center
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

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b	Battalion
B	Brigade; 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
BAOSC	Bay Area Open Space Council
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
BASINS	Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Systems (USEPA)
BATCO	Boulder Area Trails Coalition
BB	Band-by-band; Blattbereich
BBS	Bulletin board system
BC	British Columbia; Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.)
BCC	Bibliographic Control Committee (ACMLA)
BCDC	Bay Conservation and Development Commission
BCGS	Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines)
BCH	Beach
BCSS	Battlefield Command Support System (Australian Army)
BDC	Base de donnees sur les collectivities (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
BDET	Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd.
BDG	Bridge
Bdy	Boundary
BE	Brick enclosed elevator
BEA	Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates; Bureau of Economic Analysis (US)
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
BES	Bureau of Environmental Service (Portland, Oregon)
Betrbf	Betriebsbahnhof
BETS	Brunson Electronic Triangulation System
BEV	Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria)
BFE	Base flood elevation
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	Below ground surface
BGS	British Geological Survey
Bgw.	Bergwerk = mine
Bhf.	Bahnhof = Railway station
BHIC	Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum = Brabant Historical Information Centre
BHS	Boston Harbor Software, Inc.
BI	Big Idea (NIMA); Business intelligence
BIA	Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)
BIC	Borderlands Information Center (Texas)
BICI	Book item contribution identifier
BIG	Brunei Institution of Geomatics
BIL	Band Interleaved by Line
BIM	Building information modeling
BIMCC	Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle
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
BLIS	Brownfields Location Information System (Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce)
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
BMAC	Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex
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)
BMW	Barclay Mapworks, Inc.
BN	Biblioth`eque Nationale
BNA	Block numbering area
BND	Stream bend
BNDT	Base nationale de donnees topographiques (Canada)
BnF	Bibliotheque national de France
BNPC	Bathymetric navigation planning chart
BNPD	Bivariate Normal Probability Density
BNSC	British National Space Centre
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 (U.S.)
BOREAS	Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
BORPELS	Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (Calif.)
BOSS	Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on
BOTUS	Best of the U.S. (Space Imaging)
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
BRGM	Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France)
BRICMICS	British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems
BRH	Bush, Roed & Hitchings (Firm)
BRS	Bibliographic Retrieval Service
BS	Bureau of Statistics (Japan)
Bs. As.	Buenos Aires
BSB	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
BSC	Boston Survey Consultants
BSE	Base flood elevation
BSNH	Headwater basin
BSQ	Band Sequential
BSR	Bibliographic Standard Record
BSU	Base Spatial Unit
BT	Base Topo
BTA	Basic Trading Areas (FCC)
BTS	Bureau of Transportation Statistics (US)
BUIS	Beihai Urban Information Center
BUPMIS	Beihai Urban Planning Management Information System
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

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c	Company
C	Cartography; Celsius (degrees)
ca.	Circa
CA	California; Cartographic and architectural; Census agglomeration (Canada)
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
CADRG	Compressed ADRG
CAFF	Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
CAFM	Computer-aided facility management
CAG	Canadian Association of Geographers
CaGIS	Cartography and Geographic Information Science (journal)); Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (journal)
CAGIS	Cartography and Geographic Information Society
Cal.	California
Calif.	California
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
CAMA	Computer-aided mass appraisal system (Montana)
CAMEO	Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations System (U.S.)
CAMFER	Center for the Assessment & Monitoring of Forest & Environmental Resources (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley)
CAN	Controlled Area Network
CANRI	Community Access to Natural Resources Information
CanSIS	Canadian Soil Information System
CANSPACE	Canadian Space Geodesy Forum
CanVec	Canadian Vector Data
CAP	Cooperative Agreements Program (FGDC)
CAPCO	Capital Area Planning Council (Texas)
CAPDU	Canadian Assn. of Public Data Users
CAR	Curriculum, Accreditation and Registration Committee (ACSM); Central African Republic
CARES	Center for Agricultural, Resource, and Environmental Systems (Univ. of Missouri)
CARL	Canadian Assn. of Research Libraries
CARS	Computer-Assisted Reproduction; Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (Oklahoma State Univ.)
CASA	Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Univ. College, London)
CASE	Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CASI	Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager
CaSIL	California Spatial Information Library
CASS	Coding and Accuracy Support System (USPS)
CAST	Center for Advanced and Spatial Technologies (Univ. of Arkansas)
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
CAZRI	Central Arid Zone Research Institute
CB	Column builder
C.B.	Hollow concrete or cement block construction
CBD	Central business district
CBEP	Community-Based Environmental Protection (USEPA program)
CBEPS	Canadian Board of Examiners for Professional Surveyors
CBET	Concrete block enclosed elevator
CBF	Cartographic boundary file
CBI	China Burma India Theatre of Operations (WW II)
CBL	Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Suriname); Calibration (or calibrated) base line
cbm	Kubikmeter (cubic meter)
CBM	Coalbed Methane Map (Wyoming State Geological Survey)
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
C.C.	Chain carrier
CCA	Canadian Cartographic Assn.
CCAFS	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Florida)
CCAP	Competative Cooperative Agreements Program (U.S.)
CCBCCM	Canadian Committee for the Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials
CCC	Canadian Committee on Cataloging; Cataloging and Classification Committee (MAGERT)
CCCELS	California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors
CCD	Census county division; Computer Center Div. (USGS); Charged couple device; Charged-coupled device; Charge-coupled device
CCDM	Core Cadastral Domain Model
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
CCK	Centrale Catalogus Kartografie (National Library of the Netherlands)
CCLS	Canadian Council of Land Surveyors
CCM	Canada Centre for Mapping; Compressed County Mosaic (USDA)
CCNS4	Computer Controlled Navigation System (E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc.)
CCPS	Central Colorado Professional Surveyors
CCPR	California Center for Population Research
CCRS	Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
CCS	Census consolidated subdivision (Canada)
CCT	Computer Compatible Tape; Centro de Ciencia Tropical
CD	Compact disc; Conservation Div. (USGS); Committee Draft (ISO)
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 (and Fire Protection)
CDFG	California Dept. of Fish and Game
CDFS	Cloud Depiction and Forecast System
CDH	Communications and data handling
CDi	Compact Disk interactive
CDIS	Coordinated Design and Information System
CDL	Cropland data layers (USDA NASS)
CDMG	California Div. of Mines and Geology
CDN	Coordinates, definitions and notations
CDOT	Colorado Dept. of Transportation
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
CDRS	Collaborative Digital Reference Service
CDS	Catalogue of Data Sources
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
CEAO	County Engineers Association of Ohio
CEBAF	Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
CECO	Consulting Engineers Council of Ohio
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
CEDARE	Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe
CEDD	Committee on the Exchange of Digital Data
CEE	Comite Estatal de Estadisticas (Cuba)
CEGET	Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropical (Bordeaux)
CEGIS	Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (USGS)
CELSOC	Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California
Cem.	Cemetery
CEMA	Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Assn.
CEMAR	Centro de Estudos do Mar
CEN	Comite europeen de normalization electronique
CENREN	Centro de Recursos Naturales (El Salvador)
CENTA	Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (El Salvador)
CENTAUR	Civil Engineering Technologies for Automatic Roadmaking (DSNP)
CEO	European Centre for Earth Observation
CEONet	Canadian Earth Observation Network
CEP	Celestial Ephemeris Pole
CERCLIS	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (US EPA)
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
CFC	Comite francais de cartographie
CFCC	Census Feature Class Code
CFF	Cartographic Feature File
CFUA	Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association
C.G.	Coast Guard
CGA	Color Graphics Adaptor
CGC	Commission geologique du Canada
CGDB	Central Geographic Data Base
CGDI	Canadian Geomatics Digital Initiative ; Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
CGE	Comision Geografico-Exploradora (Mexico)
CGI	Computer Graphics Interface; Common gateway interface; Center for Geographic Information
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
CGNS	Canadian Geographical Names Service
GCN1	Canadian Geographical Names, Level 1
CGPM	Conference General des Poids et Mesures
CGPS	Continuous global positioning system
CGRG	Canadian Geomorphology Research Group
CGS	California Geological Survey; Civil GPS Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Colorado Geological Survey
C&GS	Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Commercial & Government Systems (Kodak)
CGSB	Canadian General Standards Board
CGSB-COG	Canadian General Standards Board Committee on Geomatics
CGSIC	Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
CGSICO	Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
CGTP	Cartographic and Geospatial Technology Programs
CGU	Canadian Geophysical Union
CGW	Computer Graphics World (journal)
CH; Ch.	Chief Hydrologist; Church; Chapel
CHA	Canadian Hydrographic Association
CHEEC	Center for the Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (Univ. of Iowa)
CHEST	Combined Higher Education Software Team (UK)
CHGIS	China Historical Geographic Information System (Harvard University)
CHIA	Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Assessment
CHNM	Marine channel
CHS	Canadian Hydrographic Service
CI	Compass and inclinometer; Coal Investigations Map (USGS)
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
CICLOPS	Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations
CID	Community Information Database (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
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)
CIMIS	California Irrigation Management Information System
CINDI	Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (USGS)
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	Conservational International GIS
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
CLA	Canadian Library Association
CLD	Center line data
CLDB	Common Land Data Base
CLDS	Canada Land Data System(s)
CLI	Canada Land Inventory
CLICK	Center for LiDAR Information Coordination (USGS)
CLID	Class identifier
CLIRSEN	Remote Sensing Center (Ecuador)
Clk.	Clerk
CLL	Corrected line length
CLOMA	Confidential letters of map amendment
CLS	Canada Lands Surveyor
CLSA	California Land Surveyors Assn.
CLSR	Canada Lands Surveys Records
CLU	Common land units
CLUMP	Canada Land Use Monitoring Program
cm	Centimeter
CM	Cartographic material; Configuration management
CMA	Census Metropolitan Area (Statistics Canada); Central Mapping Agency (New South Wales)
CMAP	Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
CMAS	Circular Mean Accuracy Standard
CMCC	California Mapping Coordinating Committee
CMD	Current meter digitizer; Command
CMEDS	Comprehensive Mapping and Engineering Data System (LES)
CMI	Corvallis Microtechnology Inc.
CMIB	Controlled multispectral image base
CMIS	Conical-scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder
CMM	Coalbed Methane Map (Wyoming State Geological Survey)
CMO	Canada Map Office
CMOTS	Cartographic Material Order and Tracking System (USGS)
CMP	Coastal Mapping Program; Camp
CMS	California Map Society; Cavity Monitoring System (Optech); 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)
CNIDR	Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (USA)
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); Canadian National Railway
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 (US Army)
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
COGNA	Council of Geographic Names Authorities
COGO	Coordinate geometry; Coalition of Geospatial Organizations
C.O.I.	Office of Coordinator of Information (U.S.)
col.	Color; colored
Col.	Colonel; Colorado
COL	Agricultural colony
COLD	Computer Output to Laser (optical) Disc
Com.	Committee; Commission; Commodore
COM	Component Object Model (Microsoft)
COMAP	Continuous area pattern mapping
Comdg.	Commanding
COMIS	Cartographic Operations Management Information System
COMPAS	Coastal Ocean Management, Planning and AssessmentSystem
COMSAT	Communications Satellite (Corp.)
CONAE	Comision nacional de actividades espaciales (Argentina)
CONC.	Concrete or reinforced concrete construction
Cong.	Congress
Conn.	Connecticut
CONRIM	Committee on Natural Resource Information Management(Alaska)
CONUS	Continental United States
CO-COPS	Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (NOAA)
COP/BOP	City of Portland Bureau of Planning
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORC	Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (OCLC)
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-off-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)
CPLC	Court of Private Land Claims
CPS	Characters per second; Contour plotting system; Cartographic production system
C.P.S.C.R.A.M.	Cum Privilegio Sacrae Caesareae Regiaeque Apostolicae Majestatis = With the privilege of the Holy Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty
CPSO	Cataloging Policy and Support Office (Library of Congress)
CPU	Central processing unit
CR	Central Region; Coordinate reader
CRA	Common Resource Area
CRADA	Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (U.S)
CRAG	Columbia Region Association of Governments
CRAIGES	Cartographic Reproduction and Interactive Graphic Editing System
CRBT	Centre de Recherches Biologiques Tropicales (Algeria)
CREPUQ	Conference des recteurs et des principaux des universites du Quebec
CRESP	Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (U.S.)
CRG	Centre de Recherche en Geomatique (Universite Laval)
CRIB	Computerized Resources Information Bank
CrIS	Cross-track Infrared Sounder (US)
CRISTA	Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere
CRKT	Tidal creek
CRL	Cartographic research laboratory
CrlMSS	Cross-track Infrared and Microwave Sounding Suite
CrlS	Cross-track Infrared Sounder
CSD	Census subdivision (Canada)
CRM	Consejo de Recursos Minerales (Mexico); Customer relationship management
CRN	Canadian Road Network
CRPD	City Real Property Database
CRREL	Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratories
CRTR	Crater
CRSA	Canadian Regional Science Association
CRSC	California Remote Sensing Council
CRSS	Canadian Remote Sensing Society
CRT	Cathode ray tube
CRV	Cloth, rolled, varnished
CS	Color scanner; Cubic splines
C.S.	Charles Simonneau
CSA	Canadian Space Agency
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); Coastal Services Center (NOAA); California Surveying Corporation
CSDGM	Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
CSDMS	Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions
CSDS	California Surveying and Drafting Supply
CSFS	Colorado State Forest Service
CSG	Cartography Special Group, Assn. of American Geographers; Council of State Governments
CSIG	Cyberinfrastrucure Summer Institute for Geoscientists
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)
CSISS	Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (UCSB)
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
CSR	Center for Space Research (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
CSRS	Canadian Spatial Reference System
CSUF	California State University, Fresno
CSUN	California State University, Northridge
CST	Central Standard Time; Chicago Steel Tape Co.; Coast; Certified Survey Technician
CSVNS	California Surveying Virtual Survey Network (California Surveying and Drafting Supply
Ct.	Court
CT	Census tract; Connecticut
CTA	Crafton, Tull & Associates
CTC	Cartoteca de Catalunya; Cooperating Technical Communities
CTCUQ	Commission de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Quebec
CTD	Chief, Topographic Division; Conductivity-temperature-depth
CTI	Critical Technologies Inst. (RAND Corp.)
CTI-S	Centre for Topographic Information - Sherbrooke
CTL	Cartographic Technology Lab.
CTOG	Contour to Grid
CTS	Communications Technology Satellite (Canadian); Conventional terrestrial system
CUA	Canadian Underwriters' Association
CUAC	Cartographic Users Advisory Council (U.S.)
CUBE	Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator
CUET	Cuesta
CUGiK	Centralny Urzad Geodezji i Kartografii (Poland)
CUR	Council on Undergraduate Research
CUSEC	Central United States Earthquake Consortium
CUSMAP	Conterminous United States Minerals Assessment Plan
CVO	Cascades Volcano Observatory (USGS)
CWHR	Califoria Wildlife Habitat Relationships
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)
C4G	Center for GeoInformatics (Louisiana State University)

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D	Division; Dwelling
DA	Data Acquisition; Dept. of the Army; Dissemination area (Canada)
D/A	Digital to Analog (converter)
DAAC	Div. des archives audiovisuelles et cartographiques, Archives nationales du Canada; Distributed Active Archive Center
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
DADSO	Data Access and Dissemination System Office (USBC)
DAESA	Dual Axis Fourier Shape Analysis
DAFIF	Digital Aeronautical Flight Information Files (NGA)
DAG	Directorate of Geographic Affairs (Lebanon)
DAIS-1	Digital Airborne Imagery System (Space Imaging (Firm))
DAISIDS	Distributed Ad-hoc Intelligent Sensor-Intrusion Detection System
DAL	Data Analysis Laboratory
DAM	Detection and mapping
DAMES	Defense Automated Message Exchange Service (USDMA)
DANE	Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Colombia)
DAR	Data acquisition request
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; Digial Aerial Solutions, LLC
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
DAVE-G	Dialogue Assisted Virtual Environment for Geoinformation
DB	Data base; Dissemination block (Canada)
DBB	Deutsche Bundesbahn
DBDB	Digital Bathymetry Data Base (U.S. government)
DBH	Diameter at breast height
DBI	Database Indexing; Database Interface
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; Dublin Core
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
DCMI	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
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
DCRM	Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials
DCRM(C)	Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic)
DCS	Digital Cartography Section; Digital color separate; Directorate of Colonial Surveys (U.K.); Data collection system; Digital Cartographic Studio
DCSE	Diba Consulting Software Engineers
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; Decimal degrees
DDA	Data descriptive area
DDAC	Deutscher Automobil-Club
DDC	Dewey Decimal classification; Digital data conversion
DDCMP	Digital Data Communication Message Protocol
DDE	DOE Data Explorer (US Dept. of Energy)
DDES	Digital Data Editing System
DDF	Data descriptive file
DDG	La direction des documents gouvernementaux (La Bibliotheque et des Archives du Canada)
DDI	Design Data Inc.
DDIS	Depository Distribution Information System (USGPO)
DDL	Data Definition Language
DDM	Documents Data Miner; Digital Distance Model; Dynamic Digital Map
DDN	Defense Data Network
DDPO	Defense Dissemination Program Office (U.S.)
DDPS	Desktop Digital Photogrammetry System (3D Mapper Pty. Ltd.)
DDR	Data descriptive record
DDS	Digital Data Storage
DDTI	Digital Data Technologies, Inc.
DE	Data extraction; Delaware
DEA	David Evans and Associates, Inc.
dec.	Declination
DEC	Digital Equipment Corp.
DED	Data Element Dictionary
DE-DEM	Drainage-Enforced DEM
DEIS	Draft environmental impact statement
del.	Delineation; delineator
Del.	Delaware
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.
DEW	Distant Early Warning Line
DFAD	Digital Feature Analysis Data (U.S. government)
DFC	Digital Futures Coalition
DFG	Dept. of Fish and Game
DFLIP	Digital Flight Information Publication
DFIRM	Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map
DFO	Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
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	Digital 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 Image Analysis Laboratory (Univ. of Arizona); Differential Absorption LiDAR (Optech)
diam.	Diameter
DIAM	Defense Intelligence Agency Manual
DiAP	Digital Image Analytical Plotter (ISM)
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)
difSAR	Differential SAR
DIGCAT	Digital Catalog
DIGEST	Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard
DIGIT	Digitally Integrated Geographic Information Technologies (laboratory, Univ. of Utah Geography Dept.)
DILIGENT	Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology (EC)
DIM	Digital Image Matching
DIME	Dual Independent Map Encoding (U.S. Bureau of the Census)
DIN	Deutsches Institut fur Normung
Dinageca	Direcc~ao Nacional de Geografia e Cadastro (Mozambique)
DINO	Data in Ontario (organization)
DIP	Data Integration Program
DIPS	Digital Image Processing System
DIRS	Digital Image Rectification/Registration System
DIS	Distributed Information System; Draft International Standard (ISO)
DISGIS	Distributed Geographical Information Systems
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); Dept. of Land Information
DLL	Windows Dynamic Link Library
DLMS	Digital Landmass System
DLNR	Dept. of Land and Natural Resources
DLO	Document-like object
DLR	Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
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)
DMC	Disaster Monitoring Constellation (BNSC)
DMCA	Digital Millenium Copyright Act
DME	Distance measuring equipment; Dept. of Mines and Energy (Nova Scotia)
DMGIS	Data, Map and Government Information Services (Univ. of Toronto Library)
DMI	Digital Mapping, Inc.
DMMG	Direccion Nacional de Mineria y Geologia (Uruguay)
DMMR	Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources (Saudi Arabia)
DMP	Digital Map Products (Firm)
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; Degrees, minutes, seconds
DMSI	Data Management Segment Interface Control Document
DMSO	Defense Mapping School Operations Office (USDMA)
DMSP	Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMT	Digital Mapping Techniques
DMTI	Desktop Mapping Technologies Inc.
DMU	Defense Mapping Unit (Singapore); Distance measuring unit
DMW	Daft, McCune, Walker
DN	Digital Number
DNC	Digital Nautical Chart
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
DOGAMI	Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries (Oregon)
DOH	Dept. of Health
DOI	Dept. of the Interior; Digital object identifier; Document object identifier
DOM	Document Object Model
DOMSAT	Domestic Communications Satellite System
DOQ	Digital orthophoto quadrangle
DOQQ	Digital orthophoto quarter quadrangle
DORIS	Decision-Oriented Resource Information System (Ventura County, Calif.); Doppler obitography and radiopositioning integrated by satellite
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; Designated place
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); Direct Reflex (Trimble)
DRAPE	Digital Raster Acquisition Project for the East
DRAPP	Denver Regional Aerial Photography Program
DRBC	Delaware River Basin Commission
DRC	Democratic Republic of Congo
DRCOG	Denver Regional Council of Governments
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
DRIS	Digital Research and Instructional Services (Univ. of Virginia)
DRO	Digital Revision Overlay
DS	Digital subsystem
D.S.	District Surveyor
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); Dept. of Surveys and Mapping (Botswana); Digital stereo model; Digital surface model
DSN	Deep Space Network; Dataset Name; Data source name
DSNP	Dassault-Sercel NP
DSP	Dept. of State Planning; Depository Services Program (Canada)
DSPW	Digital Photogrammetric Workstation (USCE)
DSS	Digital Sensor System (Applanix or EMERGE )
DS/S	Data Services Segment
DSSSL	Document Style Semantic and Specification Language
DSU	Digital Standard Update
DTAD	Digital Terrain Analysis Data
DTD	Digital Terrain Data; Digital Topographic Data (Natural Resources Canada); Document Type Definition
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 versatile disc
DVNP	Death Valley National Park
DVP	Digital Video Plotter
DW	Data warehousing
DWD	Deutscher Wetterdienst
DWF	Drawing Web Format
DWM	Digital Web Map (Idaho Geological Survey)
DWR	Dept. of Water Resources
DXF	Drawing Interchange File; Digital Exchange Format
DXM	Data eXchange Manager
DySIS	Dynamic Software and Integrated Solutions, Inc.
D-2	National Interest Lands, Section D-2, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
D3	Digital Design Data

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E	East; Electronic; Elevator (open); Einwohner = inhabitant
EA	Environmental assessment
EAC	Engineering Accreditation Commission (ABET)
EAF	East African Force (UK)
EAFS	Effective Aerial Film Speed
EAOS	Environment Australia Online Service
EAP	Environmental Affairs Program
Earthsat	Earth Satellite Corp.
EAS-E	Engineering and Survey-Exchange
EBAMCO	Electronic Book and Map Company
EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBR	Electron Beam Recorder
EBRPD	East Bay Regional Park District (California)
EBX	Electronic book exchange
EC	Electronic control; European Community; European Commission
ECAI	Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
ECDIS	Electronic Chart Display and Information System (U.S.)
ECE	E. Coyote Enterprises
ECEF	EarthCentered EarthFixed
ECEY	Every City, Every Year (Aerials Express)
ECI	Election Commission of India
ECPD	Engineering Council for Professional Development
ECRF	Earth Centered Reference Frame
ECS	Electronic Charting Systems (NOAA)
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)
EDGE	Energy Data Geographical Explorer (Petroconsultants, Inc.)
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange; Electronic Devices Inc.
EDIES	EROS Digital Image Enhancement Systems
EDIFACT	Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
EDINA	Edinburgh Data and Information Access
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; Electronic distance meter
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
EdUC	Education User Conference (ESRI)
EEC	European Economic Community
EEZ	Exclusive Economic Zone
E.F.	Eisenbahnfaehre
EFFIS	European Forest Fire Information System
EGA	Enhanced Graphics Adaptor
EGII	European Geographic Information Infrastructure
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; Environmental information system
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)
EMF	Enhanced Meta Files (Windows)
EMIP	European Market for Infrastructural Projects
EMMMA	Environmental Mercury Mapping, Modeling and Analysis
EMPS	Elevation Matrix Processing System
EMR	Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; Electromagnetic radiation
EMS	Electromagnetic spectrum; Engineering Mapping Solutions (Firm)
ENC	Electronic Navigational Charts (NOAA)
E.N.E.	East-northeast
Eng. Dept.	Engineering Dept.; Dept. of Engineers
Engr. Bn.	Engineer Battalion
ENIAC	Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
ENID	Endnote ID
E-N&N	Electronic News and Notes (WAML)
ENSG	Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques
ENTR	Entrance
entw.	Entworfen = Drawn
entworf.	Entworfen = Drawn
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
EOTD	Enhanced observed time difference
EP	End Point
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
EPB	Earth Physics Branch (Canada)
EPI	Electronic Position Indicator
EPIRB	Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon
EPP	Educational Partnership Program (Topcon)
EPS	Encapsulated PostScript
ER	Economic region (Canada)
ERA	Electric Records Archives (NARA)
ERBS	Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (or Sensor)
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); Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE)
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
ERP	Enterprise resource planning
ERPANET	Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
ERR	Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die Besetzten Gebiete
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; Earth Sciences Associates
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); Exploratory spatial data analysis
ESDD	Earth Science Data Directory (USGS)
ESDI	Earth Science Data Interface
ESE	Earth Science Enterprise
E.S.E.	East-southeast
ESEM	Earth Systems Engineering and Management
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
ESIP	Earth Science Information Partners
ESIS	Earth Science Information System
ESL	Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc.
ESMI	European Spatial Metadata Infrastructure
ESR	Engineering Surveys Reproduction Ltd.
ESRI	Environmental Systems Research Inst., Inc.
ESSA	Environmental Science Service Administration
ESSC	Earth System Science Center (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
ESSHC	European Social Science History Conference
ESSI	Earth Search Sciences Inc.
ESSIC	Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (Univ. of Maryland)
E. St.	Eisenbahn Station = railway station
EST	Eastern Standard Time
ES&T	Environmental Science and Technology
ESV	EarthSystemsVisualizer
ET	Frame enclosed elevator with self-closing traps
ETF	European Transfer Format
ETL	Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USCE); Extract, transform, load
ETM	Enhanced Thematic Mapper
ETM+	Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus
EU	European Union
EUB	Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
EUROGI	European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information
EVC	East View Cartographic (Firm)
EVI	Enhanced vegetation index
EVO	Ernst Volker (Oldenburg, Germany)
EWP	Executive Wilderness Programmes
Ex. doc.	Executive document
EXIF	Extensible Image File Format

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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)
FAPAR	Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
FAQ	Frequently Asked Question(s)
FARC	Federal Archives and Record Center
FAS	Foreign Agricultural Service(USDA)
FAST	Faceted Application of Subject Terminology
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
FDEP	Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection
FDIS	Formal Draft International Standard (ISO)
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	Federal electoral district (Canada); Field-emission displays
FedUC	Federal User Conference (ESRI)
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.)
FGI	Free Government Information (US)
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
Fla.	Florida
FLHO	Federal Lands Highway Office (U.S.)
FLI-IWG	Future of Land Imaging Interagency Working Group (US)
FLIMAP	Fast Laser Imaging Mapping and Profiling (system)
FLIP	Flight Information Publication (NGA)
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.)
FMCSA	Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (US)
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
FNC	Foreign Names Committee (USBGN)
FNESA	Federation of New England Surveyors Assn.s
FNIB	Foreign Names Information Bulletin
FNMOC	Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (U.S.)
FO	Field office
F.O.	Field Officer; Foreign Office
FOC	Full operational capability
FOF	Filtering optical fiber
FOGs	Fiber Optic Gyros
FOM	Field Operations Manual
FORTRAN	Formula Translation (computer language)
FOUO	For official use only
FOV	Field of view
fPAR	Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
FPC	Federal Power Commission; Federal Publishers Committee
FPT	Full production training
FPU	Floating point unit
FRA	Federal Railroad Administration (U.S.)
FRAP	Fire and Resource Assessment Program (Calif. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection)
FRBR	Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (IFLA)
FRC	Federal Records Center (U.S.)
F.R.G.S.	Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
FRI	Forest Resource Inventory Map (Ontario)
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)
FSA	Farm Service Agency (USDA)
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
FTA	Federal Transit Administration (US)
Fth.	Fathom
FTL	Future Temporal Logic
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.)
FYROM	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
FZDS	Flood Zone Determination Services

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G	Geometry; Imperial guards
G&M	Geography and Map; geography and Map Div.
G&O	Greenhorne & O'Mara Inc.
Ga.	Georgia
GA	Georgia; Geographic access; Geographical Association
GAC	Geological Assn. of Canada; Global Area Composite; Geospatial Advisory Committee (USFS)
GAF	Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Fernerkundung
GAMS	GIS azimuth measuring system
GANS	Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia
GAP	Gap Analysis Program (USNBS); Geographic Application Program; Google Ancient Places
GAT	Geography Assn. of Thailand
GB	Gigabyte; Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria)
GBA	GeoBusiness Assn.; George Butler Associates, Inc.
GBAMS	GBS Master Series, Inc.
GBAUG	Greater Boston Autodesk User Group
GBf	Guterbahnhof = freight depot
GBF	Geographic Base File
GBFP	Georgia Basin Futures Project (Digital Library)
GBI	Green biomass index
GBIS	Geo-Based Information System; Global Business Intelligence Solutions (IBM)
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.)
GCLI	GIS in Canadian Libraries Initiative
GCM	General circulation model; Global climate model; General Command of Mapping (Turkey)
GCMC	Geospatial Center and Map Collection (Ball State University)
GCP	Ground control point(s); Geodetic control point(s)
GCRA	Geographic and Cartographic Research and Applications Section
GCRS	Gulf Centre for Remote Sensing (Firm)
GCSS	Global Combat Support System
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
GDAL	Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
GDC	Geographic Data Council
GDD	Graphics Data Display Manager; GIS Data Depot
GDDD	Geographical Data Description Directory
GDE	Graphic Developer's Engine (FCAD Software, Inc.)
GDF	Geographic data file
GDHS	Ground Data Handling System (GFSC)
GDM	Geospatial data management
GDN	Geography Discipline Network
GDS	Graphic Data Systems Corp; Grumman Data Systems; Geo-Data System; Geographic Data Service (U.S.)
GDT	Geographic Data Technology Inc.; Geophysical diffraction tomography
GDTA	Groupement pour le Developpement de la Teledetection Aerospatiale (France)
GE	General Electric; Geographic equivalent; Google Earth
GEBCO	General bathymetric chart of the oceans = Carte generale bathymetrique des oceans
GECCo	Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration (program, GITA)
GEDS	General Environmental Data Base System (Florida)
GEGMR	General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources (Syria)
GEHC	Grup d'Estudia d'Historia de la Cartografia
GEM	Graphical Environment Manager
GEMS	Global Environment Monitoring System; GeoMap Society
GEO	Geospatial Metadata Application Profile (USA); Geostationary Earth orbit; Global Environment Outlook
GEOBAL	Servicio Geologico de Bolivia
GEO-CAT	Geographic catalog of political and statistical areas
Geocorr	Geographic Correspondence Engine
GEODESY	Geospatial Data and Exploration System (Harvard Univ.)
Geog.	Geography
GEOINT	Geographical intelligence
Geol.	Geology
GEOLAN	Geological (survey) local area network
GeoLoB	Geospatial Line of Business
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)
GEP	Google Earth Pro
Ges.	Gesamt-
GES	Geographic Entry System
gest.	Gestechen = Engraved
gez.	Gezeichnet = Designed
GFDL	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)
GFOSS	Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
GGBR	Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve (Calif.)
GGMC	Guyana Geology and Mines Commission
GGNRA	Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.)
GGRF	Galileo Geodetic Reference Frame
GGS	Georgia Geologic Survey
GGU	Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse
GI	Geographic information; Geospatial information
GIA	Geographic information analysis; Geographic information and analysis; GPS International Assn.; Geomatics Industry Association
GIAA	Geometrics Industry Assn. of America
GIAC	Geomatics Industry Assn. of Canada; Geographic Information Advisory Council (Kentucky)
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
GIFTS	Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer
GIG	Geologic Inquiries Group
GILS	Government Information Locator Service
GIMS	Geographic Information Management Systems Committee (ASCM/ASPRS)
GINIE	Geographic Information Network in Europe
GIO	Geographic Information Officer; Geographic Investigations Office (USGS); Geospatial Information Office (USGS)
GIPS	Generalized Image Processing Sytstem
GIR	Geographic information retrieval
GIRAS	Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System (USGS)
GIS	Geographic(al) information system(s); Geohydrologic Information System; Geoscience Information Society; Global Indexing System
GISCI	GIS Certification Institute
GISCO	Geographic Information System of the European Commission
GISDEX	Federal Geographic Information and Spatial Data Exposition and Conference (U.S.)
GIScience	Geographic information science
GISIC	Geographical Information Systems International Group
GISMO	GIS MOdeling (ERDAS)
GISOM	Generating Information and Scanning Ohio Maps (Ohio State Univ. Center for Mapping)
GISP	GIS professional
GISS	Goddard Institude of Space Studies
GISS-SG	Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group (AAG)
GIST	Geographic Information System for Transportation
GIT	Geomatics information technology; General Information Technology; Global Imaging Technologies (Firm)
GITA	Geospatial Information & Technology Assn.
GITC	Geomatics Information Trading Center
GITCO	Government Information Technology Committee (GODORT)
GIU	Geographic Information Unit (US Dept. of State)
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
GLCF	Global Land Cover Facility
GLDAS	Global Land Data Assimilation System (NASA)
GLI	Global Imager
GLIS	Geographic Land Information System (USGS); Geographic and Land Information Society
GLM	General linear model; GEO Lightning Mapper
GLO	General Land Office (U.S.)
GLOBE	Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
GLONASS	Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (Russia)
GLOSS	Global Observation Surveillance System
GLR-P	Geologisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz
GLRS	Geoscience Laser Ranging System
GLT	Geospatial Light Table (ERDAS IMAGINE)
GLTN	Global Land Tool Network
GM	Geography and Map; Geologic map
GMAT	Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time
G.M.	Grist mill
GMD	Geologisch Mijnbouwkundige Dienst van Suriname
GMDC	Geospatial Map and Data Centre (Ryerson University)
GME	Geohydrologic Map Editor
GML	Geography Markup Language
GMR	Government Micro Resources Inc.
GMS	Geostationary meteorological satellite(s); Geographic Measurement Systems (Firm)
G.M.S.I.	Ground Modeling Systems Inc.; Gandalf Mobile Systems Incorporated; GMSI Inc. is a firm (not an abbreviation)
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time; Generic Mapping Tools
G.M.T.	Giuseppi Maria Terreni
GN	Grid north
GNC	Geologic Names Committee; Global navigation chart
GNDB	Geographic Names Data Base (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
GNIAG	Geomatics Niagara Information Advisory Group
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.
GoC	Government of Canada
GODORT	Government Documents Round Table (ALA)
GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NASA)
GOME	Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GOMS	Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite(s)
GoMMapP	Gulf of Maine Mapping Portal
GOS	Geospatial One-Stop
GOS-PI	Geospatial One-Stop Portal Initiative (Open GIS Consortium)
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; Greenman Pedersen Inc.
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
GPSOS	Global Positioning System Occultation Sensor
GPST	Global positioning system time
GPT	GIS Portal Toolkit (ESRI)
GPW2	Gridded Population of the World (dataset)
GQ	Geologic quadrangle
GQL	Graphical Query Language
gr.	gross
Gr.	Grosse
GRACE	Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GRAMPS	Graphic Map Production System
GRASS	Geographic Resource Analysis Support System
GRB	Government Records Branch (Library and Archives of Canada; National Archives of Canada)
GRC	Generation of reproducible copy; Geoscience Research Corp.
GRD	Ground Resolved Distance
GRDL	Geodetic Research and Development Laboratory
GRE	Geologic Resources Evaluaion (program, US NPS)
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	Geological Survey of Canada; Geographic Systems Corp.; Geotronics Service Center; Geocode Service Center (HUD)
GSD	Ground sample distance; Geological Survey Dept. (Malawi); Geological Survey Div. (Jamaica); Geodetic Survey Div. (Natural Resources Canada)
GSDI	Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
GSDM	Global Spatial Data Model
GSDS	Global spatial data system
GSF	Generic Sensor Format
GSFC	Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
GSGS	Geographical Section, General Staff (U.K.)
GSHAP	Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
GSI	Geographical Survey Inst. (Japan); Geological Survey of India; Geological Survey of Iran; Geological Survey Inst. (Japan); Geological Survey of Ireland; Geophysical Services Inc.; Geospatial Systems, Inc.
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
GST	Galileo System Time
GSTC	Geospatial Service and Technology Center (USFS)
GSW	Geological Survey of Wyoming; GeoScienceWorld
GSWA	Geological Survey of Western Australia
GSZ	Geological Survey of Zambia
GT	Geometry and topology; Greater than; Geologian Tutkimuskeskus = Geological Survey of Finland
G.T.	Gas tank
GTA	Greater Toronto Area
GTCM	Geospatial Technology Competency Model (US Dept. of Labor)
GTE	Greater than or equal
GTI	GIS Technology Inc.
GTS	GPS Timing Simulator (NovAtel Inc.); Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
GTUB	Geographic tabulation unit base
GU	Government unit; Guam
GUDS	Geologicky ustav Dionyz Stur
GUGiK	Glowny Urzad Geodezji i Kartografii (Poland)
GUGK	Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartografii (USSR)
GUGKK	Glavno Upravlenie po Geodezia I Kartografia y Kadaster (Bulgaria)
GUI	Graphical User Interface
GUID	Globally unique identifier
GUIDE	Geomatics Utilization Inventory and Design Environment
GUNI	Goteborgs Universitet Naturgeografiska Institutionen
GUNO	Glavnoe Upravlenie Navigatsii i Okeanografii (USSR)
GVF	Goodness of variance fit
GVI	Green vegetation index
GVis	Geographic Visualization
GVIS	Geographic Visualization
GW	Gas well (natural); Ground water
GWE	Global Weather Experiment
GWEN	Ground Wave Emergency Network (U.S.)
GWSI	Groundwater site inventory
GXL-A	GeoImaging Accelerator Aerial (PCI Geomatics and Vexcel Imaging GmbH)
GZD	Grid Zone Designation

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h.	hoch = high
H.	Hohe = height; Howitzer
ha.	Hectare; Hektar
HA	Hydrologic Investigations Atlas or Hydrologic Atlas (USGS)
HABS	Historic American Buildings Survey
HAC	Harbor and Approach Chart
HALS	Hawaii Assn. of Land Surveyors
HANDGPS	High Accuracy Nationwide Differential GPS
HARN	High-Accuracy Reference Network (U.S.)
Hauptm.	Hauptmann = Captain
HAZUS	Hazards U.S.
HAZUS_MH	Hazards U.S. multihazard version
Hbf	Hauptbahnhof = main railway station
HBCA	Hudson Bay Company Archives
HBF	Herbert Bismarck Foster
HBGN	Hawaii Board on Geographic Names
HBM	Hydrologic bench mark
HBMN	Hydrologic Bench Mark Network
HC	Hard copy
HCC	Heat Capacity Mapping Mission
HCDN	Hydroclimate Data Network
HCFCD	Harris County (Texas) Flood Control District
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
HDS	High-Definition Surveying (Leica Geosystems)
HDT	High density tape
HDT-A	High density tape (not geometrically corrected)
HDTR	High density tape recorder
HDTV	High-definition television
HEIRS	Historic Environmental Reporting System (IAO)
HEPS	High Energy Particle Sensor
HeRMIS	Heritage Resource Management Information System (PAA)
Herst.	Herstellung
HE/S	Hardcopy Exploitation Segment
HF	High frequency
HFA	Hydrologic field assistant
HFI	Hall & Foreman, Inc.
Hfn	Hafen = port, harbor
H-GAC	Houston-Galveston Area Countil
Hgbf	Hauptgueterbahnhof
HGCSD	Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (U.S.)
.HGL	Newlett-Packard Graphics Language format
HGML	Hyper Graphic Markup Language
HGS	Halliburton Geophysical Services
HHG	Household goods (Rand McNally MileMaker)
HI	Hawaii
HIA	Hydrologic Investigations Atlas
HID	Historical Imagery Declassification (NIMA)
HIF	Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility
Hind.	Hindustan
HIND	Geographical Section General Staff (India [Headquarters India])
HIRAN	High Range Navigation
HIRS	High-resolution Infrared Sounder
HIS	Hydrologic Information System; Hyperspectral imagery
HISS	Heritage Information Statistical System
HIT	Horizons Technolgy Inc.
HIU	Hydrologic Information Unit
HJW	Hammon, Jensen, Wallen & Associates; HJW GeoSpatial, Inc.
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
HLRS	Highway Location Reference Standard
HLS	Hue, lightness and saturation
HLVA	Hessisches Landesvermessungsamt
HLW	High level waste (radioactivity)
Hm. Bgs.	Hermann Berghaus
HMCK	Hummock
HMGS	Hellenic Military Geographical Service
HMSO	Her/His Majesty's Stationery Office (Great Britain)
H.O.	Hochofen = blast furnace
HOGG	History of Geology Group
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; High resolution
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
Hrm. Bghs.	Hermann Berghaus
HRMSI	High Resolution Multispectral Stereo Imager
HRV	High Resolution Visible
HRVIR	High Resolution Visible Infrared (scanner)
HS	High school
H.S.	H. Schleifmann
HSB	Humidity Sensor for Brazil (JPL)
HSDL	High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
HSGT	Hitachi Software Global Technology, Ltd.
HSI	Horizontal Situation Indicator; Habitat Suitability Index
HSRC	Hydrographic Science Research Center
HSRP	Hydrographic Services Review Panel (US)
H. St.	Eisenbahn Haltstelle = railway stop
HSV	Hue Saturation Value
HTC	Hydrographic Topographic Center (USDMA)
H., T.C.	Thomas Campanius Holm
HTDP	Horizontal Time-Dependent Positioning
HTI	Horizons Technology, Inc.
HTML	Hypertext (or HyperText) Markup Language
HTS	Human terrain systems
HUA	Hydrologic Unit Area
HUC	Hydrologic Unit Code
HUD	Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.)
Hund.	Hundred
HURRDAT	Hurricane Data Set
HVC	Hue-Value-Chroma
H.W.	Hochwasser
H/W	Hardware

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i	Infantry
I.	Island
IA	Infrastructure Analyst (BaySys Technologies Inc.); Iowa
IACWD	Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data
IADO	Instituto Argentino de Oceanografia
IAEA	International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEG	International Assn. of Engineering Geologists
IAEGS	Institute for Advanced Education in Geospatial Sciences
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
IAHWG	Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Working Group
IAKAR	Inertially aided kinematic ambiguity resolution
IALA	International Assn. of Lighthouse Authorities
IALS	Idaho Assn. of Land Surveyors
IAMA	International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association
IAO	Insurers' Advisory Organization
IAOO	International Assn. of Assessing Officers
IAS	Image Assessment System
IASI	Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IASSIST	International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology
IAT	Image Annotation Tape; International Atomic Time
IATO	Italian atlas assembled to order
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.); International boundary marker
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)
I.C.	Johannes Condet (engraver)
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
ICA-USNC	International Cartographic Assn. U.S. National Committee
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); Imagery Cooperative Exchange
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
ICGI	Interagency Committee on Government Information (US)
ICGRS	Internet-Enabled Continuous Geodetic Reference Station
ICGWM	International Clearinghouse for Ground Water Models
ICHC	International Conference on the History of Cartography
ICIS	Integrated Cadastral Information Society
ICITV	Institut de la Carte International du Tapis Vegetale
ICM	Instituto Cartografico 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)
ICP	Interactive closest points
ICR	Intelligent Character Reader
ICRSE	International Center for Remote Sensing Education
ICT	Information and communication technologies
ICW	International Computer Works, Inc.
ID	Identification; Interface device; Idaho; Island
IDAS	Image Data Analysis Systems
IDC	International Data Corp.
IDCCC	Interior Digital Cartographic Coordination Committee (U.S.)
IDD	Information and data dissemination; Initiative de democratisation des donnees de Statistique Canada
IDE	Imbedded Drive Electronics
IDEN	Identification module
IDFG	Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game
IDIMS	Interactive Digital Image Manipulation System
IDIQ	Indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity
IDL	Idaho Dept. of Lands; Interactive Data Language; Interface Definition Language
IDLH	Immediately dangerous to life and health
IDLS	Internet Data Library System (Univ. of Western Ontario)
iDNA	Integrated Dataset for North America (Rand McNally)
IDOT	Illinois Dept. of Transportation
IDR	Interface drawing
IDS	Information Decision Systems (firm)
IDWO	Intelligence Div., War Office (U.K.)
IDWR	Idaho Dept. of Water Resources
IEGDR	Initial Experimental Gridded Data Record(s)
IEMVT	Institut d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux
IENC	Inland Electronic Navigation Charts (USCE)
IEOS	Integrated Earth Observation System
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
iFS	Internet File System (Oracle Corp.)
IFSAR	Inter-ferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
IFSARE	Inter-ferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Elevation
IG	Instytut Geologiczny (Poland)
IGA	Istituto Geografico de Agostini
IGAC	Instituto Geografico "Agustin Codazzi"
IGBF	Institut Geographique de Burkina Faso
IGBP	International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGC	International Geologic Congress; Intelligent Graphics Controller; Informative Graphics Corp.
IGCI	Institut Geographique de la Cote d'Ivoire
IGCP	International Geological Correlation Program; Instituto Geografico e Cadastral (Portugal)
IGDC	Interagency Geographic Data Committee (U.S.)
IGDS	Interactive Graphics Design System (software); Intergraph Design Software
IGEBU	Institut Geographique de Burundi
IGES	Initial Graphics Exchange Specification; International Graphics Exchange System
IGF	Inset Graphics Format
IGFCOT	Institutul de Geodezie, Fotogrammetrie, Cartografie si Organizarea Teritoriului (Romania)
IGG	Institutul de Geologie si Geofizica (Romania)
IGGSP	Instituto Geografico e Geologico de S~ao Paulo
IGIF	International Geographic Information Foundation
IGIS	Integrated Geographic Information System; Intelligent GIS
IGL	Interactive Graphics Library
IGLD 85	International Great Lakes Datum of 1985
IGM	Instituto Geografico Militar
IGME	Inst. of Geology and Mineral Exploration (Greece); Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espa~na
IGMI	Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano
IGN	Institut geographique national; Instituto Geografico Nacional
IGNB	Institut Geographique National (Belgium)
IGNC	Institut Geographique National Congolaise
IGNTG	Instituto Geografico Nacional "Tommy Guardia" (Panama)
IGPT	Interagency Geospatial Preparedness Team (US)
IGS	Information & Graphics Systems Inc.; International GPS Service; Idaho Geological Survey; Indiana Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Israel
I.G.S.	John Gaspar Scheuchzer
IGSN71	International Gravity Standardization Net 1971
IGT	Integrated GPS Technologies Inc.
IGU	International Geographical Union; Instituto Geografico Universitario (Dominican Republic)
IGUG	Intergraph Graph Users Group
IGWMC	International Ground Water Modeling Center
IGY	International Geophysical Year
IGZa	Institut Geographique du Zaire
IHA	Instituto Hidrografico de la Armada (Chile)
IHAC	Instituto Hidrografico de la Armada, Chile
IHB	International Hydrographic Bureau
IHD	International Hydrological Decade
IHDC	Iowa Heritage Digital Collection
IHGC	International Health Geographics Conference
IHO	International Hydrographic Organization
IHP	International Hydrologic Program
IHSI	Institut Haitien de Statistique de d'Informatique
IIAF	Idaho Image Analysis Facility
IICT	Instituto de Investigac~ao Cientifica Tropical (Portugal)
IIGS	Initial Image Generating System
IIPL	Interactive Image Processing Laboratory
IIS	Internet Information Server
IJAGR	International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research
IJC	International Joint Commission (U.S. & Canada)
IKCS	I.K. Curtis Services, Inc.
IKU	Institutt for Kontinentalsokkelundersokelse (Norway)
IL	Illinois
ILC	Interim Library Catalog
ILEX	Interactive Landsat Executive (NASA software)
ILH	Internationales Landkartenhaus (Stuttgart)
ILI	Inst. for Land Information
ILIM	Inst. for Land Information Management (University of Toronto)
Ill.	Illinois
ILLIAC	Illinois Institute for Advanced Computation
ILMF	International LiDAR Mapping Forum
ILRIS-3D	Intelligent Laser Range Imaging Scanner (Optech)
ILS	Intelligent Library System (Lockheed Martin)
ILWIS	Integrated Land and Water Information System (ITC)
IM	Information management
IMA	Intermap Analytic
IMACS	Integrity Monitoring and Control Software (Javad Positioning Systems)
IMACUAC	Information Management and Computer Utilization Advisory Committee
IMADS	Interactive Map and Data Server (USFWS)
IMAG	Information Management Advisory Group
IMAGE	Integrated Mapping and Geographic Encoding System
IMAGE 100	Interactive Multispectral Image Analysis System (GE)
IMAN	Image Analysis (system); Intermap Analytic Nucleus
IMAP	Input, Management, Analysis, and Presentation
IMC	Image Motion Compensator
IMCoS	International Map Collectors Society
IMDA	International Map Dealers Assn.
.IMG	ADRG image format (USDMA)
IMGW	Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej (Poland)
IMLS	Institute of Museum and Library Services (US)
IMO	International Maritime Organization
IMP	Integrated Micro Products Inc.
IMPAC	Image Analysis Computer Package (Egbert Scientific)
IMS	Intermediate map scale; Image Manipulation System; Internet Map Server (ESRI)
IMSI	International Microcomputer Software, Inc.
IMT	Information Management Technologies (Firm); Internet Media Type
IMTA	International Map Trade Assn.
IMU	Inertial measurement unit
IMW	International Map of the World
in.	Inch; inches
IN	Indiana
INC	Institut National de Cartographie
INCA	Indian National Cartographic Society
INCG	Institut National de Cartographie du Gabon; Institut Geographique National Guineen
INCITS	International Committee for Information Technology Standards
Ind.	Indiana
INDEC	Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (Argentina)
INE	Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (Ecuador, Guatemala)
INEAC	Institut National pour l'Etude Agronomique du Congo
INEGI	Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas, Geografia e Informatica (Mexico)
INETER	Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales
INFORM	Information Network for Operational Resources Management (Arizona)
INGEMMET	Instituto Geologico Minero y Metalurgico (Peru)
INGEO- MINAS	Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Geologico-Mineras (Colombia)
INGM	Instituto Nacional de Geologia
INLT	Inlet
INMARSAT	International Maritime Satellite (organization)
INMG	Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofisica (Portugal)
INMH	Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia y Hidrologia (Ecuador)
INPE	Instituto das Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
INQUA	International Union for Quaternary Research
INRA	Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (France)
INRAT	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie
INS	Inertial Navigation System
InSAR	Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
INSEE	Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (France)
INSIDE	Interactive Numeric Spatial Information Data Engine (Univ. of Idaho)
INSMAP	International Symposium on Marine Positioning
INSPIRE	Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
Inst.	Institute
INSTAAR	Inst. of Arctic and Alpine Research (Univ. of Colorado)
INTA	Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (Argentina)
INTELSAT	International Telecommunications Satellite (organization)
InterPARES	International Research on Permanent Authentic Records Electronic Systems
INTRISCA	Integrated Resource Inventory for South-Central Alaska
INUPAL	Informaciones Unidas para America Latina (Chile)
IO	Input/output; Interior orientation
I/O	Input/output
IOC	Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission; Initial operational capability
ION	Institute of Navigation
IOP	International Organisation of Palaeobotany; Interagency Operating Picture (USGS)
IOS	Institute of Oceanographic Science (Great Britain)
IP	Internet protocol; Image point
IPA	Imagery Product Archive (USDMA)
IPAM	Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia
IPCS	Image Production Control System
IPE	Image processing engine
IPF	Image Processing Facility (GSFC)
IPGP	Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
IPRG	Inst. for Petroleum Resources and Geophysics (Israel)
IPLSA	Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Assn.
IPOSTEL	Instituto Postal Telegrafico (Venezuela)
IPP	Integrated Plotting Package
IPS	Image processing system; Inertial Positioning System
IPT	Informatica per il Territorio; Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas (Sao Paulo, Brazil); Integrated Product Team
IPX	Internet Packet Exchange
IPY	International Polar Year
IR	Imaging Radiometer; Infrared
I.R.	Imperiale Reale
IRAT	Institut de Recherches en Agronomie Tropicale (France)
IRC	Intergraph Registered Consultant
IR. CH.	Iron chimney
IR. CH.S.A.	Iron chimney with spark arrestor
IRD	Information Resources Division (Arizona)
IRDB	Integrated regional database
IRDS	Information Resource Dictionary System
IRF	Internal Raster File; Internal Raster Format
IRG	Inter-Record Gap
IRICC	Interagency Resource Information Coordination Council
IRIS	Infrared Interferometer/Spectrometer; Interim Research and Intelligence Service (U.S. Dept. of State); Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
IRIS R&A	Research and Analysis Branch, Interim Research and Intelligence Service (U.S. Dept. of State)
IRLSA	Illinois Registered Land Surveyors Assn.
IRRI	International Rice Research Inst.
IRS	Internal Revenue Service (U.S.); Information retrieval system; Indian Remote Sensing (Satellite)
IRSA	Inst. of Remote Sensing Applications
IRWA	International Right of Way Assn.
IRWD	Irvine Ranch Water District
Is.	Island
IS	International Standard
I.S.	John Speed
ISA	Institute of Surveyors of Australia; Internet Starter Applications; Integrated Survey Area (British Columbia)
ISABU	Institut des Sciences Agronomiques au Burundi
ISAMS	Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
ISAPI	Internet Server Application Programming Interface
ISBD(CM)	International Standard Bibliographic Description for Cartographic Materials
ISBD(ER)	International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources
ISC	Information Systems Council
ISCCP	International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
ISCEM	International Society of Curators of Early Maps
ISD	Information Services Div.
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISEA	Icosahedral Snyder equal area (projection)
ISERT	Institut Superieur pour les Etudes et Recherches Scientifique et Techniques (Djibouti)
ISGS	Illinois State Geological Survey
ISHM	International Society for the History of the Map
ISI	Image Subsystem Interface; Information Systems Inventory (EPA); Interpretation System, Inc.
I-SITE	Intelligent Screening of Imagery for Teleophthalmology
Isl.	Island
ISL	Island; Illinois State Library
ISLP	Land-tied island
ISLS	Islands
ISM	Interpretive Structural Modeling
ISMS	International Society for Mine Surveying
ISO	Imaging Spectrometer Observatory; International Standards Organization
ISP	Internet service provider
ISPI	Intermediate-scale Product Inventory
ISPLS	Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors
ISPRS	International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ISR	Information Storage and Retrieval
ISRO	Indian Space Research Organisation
IS&T	Information Systems and Technology
ISTAT	Istituto Centrale di Statistica (Italy)
ISTD	Inter-Services Topographical Dept. (Great Britain)
ISTH	Isthmus
ISU	International System of Units
ISURL	Indiana State Univ. Remote Sensing Laboratory
IT	Information technology; Integration Technologies Inc.
I.T.	Idaho Territory
ITA	Intelligent Traverse Adjustment
ITAA	Information Technology Assn. of America
ITC	International Inst. for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (Netherlands; formerly International Training Centre for Aerial Survey); International Trade Commission
ITCA	International Topographic Composition Assn.
ITD	Interim Terrain Data
ITE	Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (Great Britain)
ITF	INTERLIS Transfer Format
ITFE	Inductive terrain feature extraction
ITRF	International Terrestrial Reference Frame
ITRF00	International Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2000
ITRM	Information Technology Resouces Management (standard, Virginia)
ITRS	International Terrestrial Reference System
ITS	Intelligent transportation system
ITSA	Independent Travel Stores Assn.; Ingeneria y Topografia, S.A. de C.V.
ITU	Image Transfer Unit; International Telecommunications Union
IUE	International Ultraviolet Explorer
IUGG	International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IUGS	International Union of Geological Sciences
IUSM	International Union for Surveying and Mapping
IVHS	Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems
IW	Information Warfare
IWARDS	Iowa Water Resources Data System
IWIS	International Water Information System
IWPC	Inst. of Water Pollution Control
IWRA	International Water Resources Assn.
I2S	International Imaging Systems Inc.

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JACIE	Joint Agency Commercial Imagery Evaluation (Committee, USA)
JAGIS	Journalism and GIS Interest Group
JALBTCX	Joint Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise
JAMP	Joint Automated Mapping Project
JATOP	Army Topographic Service (Indonesia)
JAXA	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
J.C.	Johannes Condet (engraver)
JCCDS	Joint Committee on Cartographic Data Standardization (U.S.)
JCLS	John Chance Land Surveys, Inc.
JCP	Joint Committee on Printing (U.S. Congress)
JDSF	Jackson Demonstration State Forest (Calif.)
JEC	John E. Chance & Associates
JECA	John E. Chance & Associates
JERS	Japanese Earth Resources Satellite
JFA	John Frank & Associates
JFIF	JPEG File Interchange Format
J.G.S.	John Gaspar Scheuchzer
.jgw	JPEG with World File
J.H.	Jagerhaus = hunting lodge
JICA	Japan International Cooperation Agency = Kokusai Kyoryoku Jigyodan
JIGI	Java Interface for Geospatial Information
JISC	Joint Information Systems Committee
J&K	Jammu and Kashmir
JMC	Japan Map Center
JMPC	Joint Mapping and Photography Committee (U.S.)
JMT	Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson (Firm)
JMTK	Joint Mapping Tool Kit
JNC	Jet Navigation Chart
JNGC	Jordan National Geographic Centre
JOG	Joint operations graphic
JOG-A	Joint operations graphic--air
JOG-G	Joint operations graphic--ground
JOG-R	Joint operations graphic--radar
JOIDES	Joint Oceanographic Institutions' Deep Earth Sampling
JoM	Journal of Maps
JOMAR	Joint Office for Mapping and Research (USGS-NOAA)
JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
.JPG	Joint Photographic Experts Group format
JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
JPS	Javad Positioning Systems, Inc.
JP2	JPEG2000
Jr HS	Junior high school
JRI	Jordregisterinstituttet (Norway)
JSC	Johnson Space Center
JSD	Jamaica Survey Dept.
JTIDS	Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
JTU	Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur
JWPCF	Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation
J.W.	John Webber
JWS	James W. Sewall Company, Inc.

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K	1,000; Kilo
KAM	Kansas Assn. of Mappers
Kan.	Kansas
KANDIDATS	Univ. of Kansas Landsat Software System
KAPS	Kentucky Assn. of Land Surveyors
KAR	Kinematic ambiguity resolution
KARS	Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (program)
KB	Kilobyte
KBPS	Kilobytes per second
KCWA	Kern County Water Agency (Calif.)
KDD	Knowledge discovery in databases
KDI	Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
KDMS	Kork Digital Mapping System
KDSP	Kork Digital Stereo Plotter
K&E	Keuffel & Esser
K+F	Kummerly + Frey AG
Kfz.	Kraftfahrzeug
KGPS	Kinematic GPS
KGS	Kansas Geological Survey; Kentucky Geological Survey
kHz.	Kilohertz
KHz.	Kilohertz
KIER	Korean Inst. of Energy and Resources
Kil.	Kilometer
KINDS	Knowledge Interfaces to National Data Sets
k.k.	Kaiserlich-koenigliche = Imperial, royal
KKH	Karakoram Highway
kl.	klein
Kl.	Klasse
KL	Karhunen-Loeve (transform)
K-L	Karhunen-Loeve (transform)
Klbf	Kleinbahnhof
Kleinb	Kleinbahn = Narrow-guage railroad
Kleinbf	Kleinbahnhof
Kls.	Kloster = cloister
KLSD	Kiribati Land and Survey Div.
km	Kilometer
KM	Kansas Mapper
KN	Kartographische Nachrichten (journal)
KNP	Kruger National Park
KNRIS	Kentucky Natural Resources Information System
KREMU	Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit
KRG	Kurdistan Regional Government
KRIS	Kentucky Resources Information System
KSC	Kennedy Space Center (US)
KSNM	Thousands (K) of square nautical miles
KU	Univ. of Kansas
kV	Kilovolt
kW	Kilowatt
KW	Kilowatt
KWIC	Key Word in Context
KWOC	Key Word Out of Context
Ky.	Kentucky
KY	Kentucky

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Copyright � 2011 The Regents of the University of California.
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Document maintained on server by: Earth Sciences & Map Library
1996. Last updated 2/09/2011.