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Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
By Philip Hoehn and Mary Lynette Larsgaard (Librarian Emeritus, 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.
Contact
Phil Hoehn (philhoehn at juno com)
Mary Lynette Larsgaard (mary at library ucsb edu)
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X-Y-Z | Numbers
| A | Army; Arroyo |
| 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. |
| ABGPS | Airborne GPS |
| ABI | Alabama Bureau of Insurance |
| ABN | American Bank Note Company |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ABSM | Alberta Bureau of Surveying and Mapping |
| abut. | Abutment |
| 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 cartotheques et archives cartographiques du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives |
| ACAPS | Automated Chart Production System (C&GS) |
| ACC | Assn. des cartotheques 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/td> |
| 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. | Arch |
| 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 |
| b | Battalion; Brick |
| B | Brigade; Bulletin; Bach = Brook, creek; Berg = Mountain, height |
| 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 |
| Baumsch. | Baumschule = Tree nursery |
| 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 |
| BDSO | Banque de donnees des statistiques officielles sur le Quebec |
| 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) |
| Begr. Pl. | Begrabnissplatz = Cemetery |
| 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 | Bibliotheque 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 |
| bot. | Bottom |
| BOTUS | Best of the U.S. (Space Imaging) |
| Boul. | Boulevard |
| 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; bridge |
| Br. | Breite; Branch |
| 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 |
| B.S. | Blacksmith shop |
| 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 |
| c | Company |
| C | Cape; 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) |
| CCAHA | Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts |
| 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 |
| CEC | Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. |
| 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 Fonciere 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 |
| CMONOC | Crustal Movement Observation Network of China |
| 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.) |
| con. | Concrete |
| 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 |
| cov. | Covered |
| 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 |
| Cr. | Creek |
| 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) |
| CSRN | Colorado Spatial Reference Network |
| 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) |
| cul. | Culvert |
| 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) |
| CZMIL | Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar |
| C4G | Center for GeoInformatics (Louisiana State University) |
| D | Division; Dwelling |
| d. | Deep |
| 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 |
| DCALS | District of Columbia Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| 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 | Digital humanities; 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 |
| DLC | Depository Library Council (US); Library of Congress (US) |
| 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); Digital Mapping Camera |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Est. | Estuary |
| 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) |
| EVG | East View Geospatial (Firm) |
| EVI | Enhanced vegetation index |
| EVO | Ernst Volker (Oldenburg, Germany) |
| EWP | Executive Wilderness Programmes |
| Ex. doc. | Executive document |
| EXIF | Extensible Image File Format |
| F | Fahrenheit; Flat |
| f. | Fordable |
| FA | Fire alarm box |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.) |
| FAAT | Fully Analytical Aerotriangulation |
| Fab. | Fabrik = Factory |
| 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) |
| FDsys | Federal Digital System (US GPO) |
| 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 |
| F.H. | Forst Haus, Forsterhaus - Forester's house |
| 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 Geometres = 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 |
| Fl. | Fluss = River |
| Fla. | Florida |
| Fl. Br. | Fliegende Brucke = Flying bridge |
| 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) |
| FOSS | Free open source software |
| FOSS4G | Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial [technology] |
| 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.) |
| FREAC | Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center |
| 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 |
| ft. | Feet; Foot; Fort |
| 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 |
| G | Geometry; Imperial guards; Gebirg = Mountain |
| 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) |
| Gb. | Gebirg = Mountain |
| 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) |
| GBHGIS | Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System |
| 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 |
| GDP | GeoConnections Discovery Portal |
| 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.) |
| GeoWeb | Geospatial Web |
| 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; GIS in Library Services |
| 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 |
| gir. | Girder |
| 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 | Geographic Information Systems and Mapping Operations (organization); 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) |
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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. | Graben = Channel, ditch; Graber = Graves; Grosse = Large; Grube = Trench, pit; Grund = Ground |
| 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.); General store; 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 |
| 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. |
| HAZUSMH | 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 |
| Hgl. | Hugel = Hill |
| 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 |
| HQSP | Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project (USGS) |
| 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 |
| HRG | High-resolution geometry |
| 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. | Halte Stelle = Stopping place, 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 |
| i | Infantry; Iron |
| I. | Island; Insel = 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) |
| ILSC | Innovative Lidar Solutions Conference (Optech) |
| 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 |
| IMCC | Interstate Mining Compact Commission |
| 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 |
| IOCM | Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping |
| ION | Institute of Navigation |
| IOP | International Organisation of Palaeobotany; Interagency Operating Picture (USGS) |
| IOS | Institute of Oceanographic Science (Great Britain); Interorbital Systems (Firm) |
| 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 |
| ISDP | Indiana Spatial Data Portal |
| 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 |
| ISQ | Institut de la statistique du Quebec |
| 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; IntelliCAD Technology Consortium |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Jc. | Junction |
| 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 |
| JIRP | Juneau Icefield Research Program |
| 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. |
| K | 1,000; Kilo |
| KALC | Khmer Archaeology Lidar Consortium |
| KAM | Kansas Assn. of Mappers |
| Kan. | Kansas |
| KANDIDATS | Univ. of Kansas Landsat Software System |
| Kap. | Kapelle = Chapel |
| KAPS | Kentucky Assn. of Land Surveyors |
| KAR | Kinematic ambiguity resolution |
| KARS | Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (program) |
| KAS | Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. |
| 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.F. | Kahn Fahre = Boat ferry |
| K&E | Keuffel & Esser |
| K+F | Kummerly + Frey AG |
| Kfz. | Kraftfahrzeug |
| KGPS | Kinematic GPS |
| KGS | Kansas Geological Survey; Kentucky Geological Survey |
| Khf. | Kirchhof = Churchyard cemetery |
| 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 |
| KML | Keyhold Markup Language |
| KN | Kartographische Nachrichten (journal) |
| KNP | Kruger National Park |
| KNRIS | Kentucky Natural Resources Information System |
| K.O. | Kalkofen = Lime-kiln |
| k.p. | King-post |
| K.P.M. | Kriegs Pulver Magazin = Military powder magazine |
| Kr. | Krug = Tavern |
| KREMU | Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit |
| KRG | Kurdistan Regional Government |
| KRIS | Kentucky Resources Information System |
| KSC | Kennedy Space Center (US) |
| Ksgr. | Kiesgrube = Gravel pit |
| KSNM | Thousands (K) of square nautical miles |
| Ks. u. s. Gr. | Kies und Sand Grube = Gravel and sand pit |
| 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 |