A

A. Acre; Auto house or private garage
A IN B Auto in basement
AA Automobile Assn.
AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration; American Automobile Assn.
AACR Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2d. ed.
AACCCM Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials
AAES American Assn. of Engineering Societies
AAG Assn. of American Geographers
AAGS American Assn. for Geodetic Surveying
AAG Assn. of American Geographers
AAPG American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists
AARLS Arkansas Assn. of Registered Land Surveyors
AARS Asian Assn. on Remote Sensing
AASG American Assn. of State Geologists
AASP American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
AB Air base
ABAG Assn. of Bay Area Governments (California)
ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.
ABN American Bank Note Company
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ABSM Alberta Bureau of Surveying and Mapping
Abzw Abzweigstelle
AC Aerospace Center; Air Corps; American Cartographer (journal)
A.C. Antonio Castro
A/C Aircraft
ACA American Cartographic Assn.; American Conservation Assn.; Automovil Club Argentino; Aerial Cartographics of America (Firm)
ACACC Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives cartographiques du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
ACAPS Automated Chart Production System (C&GS)
ACC Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives; Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
ACC Association canadienne de cartographie
AC&C Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography (U.S.)
ACCDTS Advisory Committee on Canadian Digital Toponymic Services
AccuDEM High-accuracy DEM
Accu-DRAPE High-accuracy DEM Draped Images
ACD Aeronautical Charting Division (C&GS)
ACDDS Advanced Cartographic Data Digitizing System
ACE Advanced Cartographic Equipment; Advanced Cartographic Environment (PCI Carto Inc.)
ACEC American Consulting Engineers Council
ACG Association canadienne des geographes; Address Coding Guides
ACI Assn. Cartographique Internationale = International Cartographic Assn.
ACIC Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.); Automated Cartographic Information Center (Univ. of Minnesota Library)
ACIU Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain)
ACLS Assn. of Canadian Lands Surveyors
ACM Assn. for Computing Machinery
ACMGIS Assn. for Computing Machinery Geographic Information Systems
ACML Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries
ACMLA Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
ACMS Automated Census Mapping System
ACM-
SIGGRAPH Assn. for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics
ACOE Army Corps of Engineers (U.S.)
ACRES Australian Centre for Remote Sensing
ACRS Asian Conference on Remote Sensing
ACS Advanced Cartographic Systems; Agricultural Cooperative Service; Automated Cartographic Systems; Automatic chemical sprinklers; Attitude Control Subsystem (Landsat); American Community Survey (USBC)
ACSAD Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands
ACSC Automobile Club of Southern California
ACSM American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
ACSTTO Assn. of Certified Survey Technicians and Technologists of Ontario
ACT Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie (Luxembourg); Australian Capital Territory
AD Administrative Division (USGS); Aeronautical data
A/D Analog to digital
ADAC Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club
ADAR Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration (Positive Systems, Inc.)
ADC Alexandria Drafting Company; American Digital Cartography Inc
ADDA American Design Drafting Assn.
ADE AutoCAD Data Extension
ADEO 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)
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
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
AFA American Forestry Assn.; Automatic fire alarm
AFB Air Force base; Aerial FotoBank (Firm)
AFCEA Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn.
AFFRC Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center (Japan)
AFI American Forest Inst.
AfRL Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Germany)
AFS Air Force station
AFT Ambiguity function technique
AG Attorney General
AGC Assn. Geologique du Canada; Arkansas Geological Commission
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
AGIS Automated Geographic Information System
AgRI-
STARS Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote Sensing
AGS American Geographical Society; Alberta Geological Survey
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
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
AIREA American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers
AIRS Atmospheric infrared sounder
AISH Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques = International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences
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
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
AMI Applied Mapping Inc.
AMIE Airglow Measurements of Infrared Measurements Emissions
AMIS Aviation Management Information System
AMISAR Active Microwave ImagerSynthetic Aperture Radar
AML ARC Macro Language
AMPS Automatic Mapping and Planning System
AMS Army Map Service; American Meteorological Society; Attitude Measurement Sensor; Automated Mapping System
AMSD Adjusted Mapping Support Data
AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
An. Anno = year
A.N.A. Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica (Mexico)
ANARE Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
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 Alaska National Wildlife Refuge
ANZLIC Australia New Zealand Land Information Council
AO Area of Operations
AOA Allen Osborne Associates, Inc.
AODC Australian Oceanographic Data Centre
AOIPS Atmospheric and Oceanographic Image Processing System
AOL America On Line
AOLS Assn. of Ontario Land Surveyors
AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
AOO American Oceanographic Organization
AOSS Ashtech Office Suite for Survey
AP Analytical Plotter
APA American Planning Assn.
APCA Air Pollution Control Assn.
APCM Aerial Photography Contract Management System
APD Automated Plat Design (ConneXt, Inc.)
A.P.D.R. Avec privilege du Roi = By license of the King
APEGGA Assn. of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta
APFO Aerial Photography Field Office (USDA)
API American Petroleum Inst.; Application programming interface
APIS Aerial Photography Information System
APMI Aerial Photography Micrographic Index System (USGS)
Apo. Apogee
APPSR Aerial Photography Progress Summary Report
APQF Aerial Photography Quad File
APR Airborne Profile Recorder
APSR Aerial Photography Summary Record
APSRS Aerial Photography Summary Record System (USGS)
APT Automatic picture transmission; Area proportional to
APTS Aerial Profiling of Terrain System
APWA American Public Works Assn.
APWWA American Public Water Works Assn.
AR Arkansas
ARA Address Register Area; Algemeen Rijksarchief (Netherlands)
ARAMCO Arabian American Oil Company
Arb. Arbeiter
ARC Ames Research Center (NASA); Appalachian Regional Commission
ARCC American Rivers Conservation Council
ArcFM Arc Facilities Manager (ESRI)
Arch. Architect; Architecture
ARG American Resources Group
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
Arr. Arrondissement
ARRSTC Asian Regional Remote Sensing Training Centre
ARS Agricultural Research Service
ARSC Australian Remote Sensing Conference
ARSP Applied Remote Sensing Program (Univ. of Arizona)
Artil. Artillery
ARZ AutoRestricted Zone
AS Anti-spoofing; Area source; automatic sprinklers
A-S Anti-spoofing
ASA American Standards Assn.
ASAP Advanced Scientific Array Processor; Agricultural Sciences Advisory Panel
ASB. CL. Asbestos-covered frame building
ASC American Society of Cartographers
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCF Ames Satellite Communications Facility
ASCIE American Standard Code for Information Exchange
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCLA Assn. of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ALA)
ASCP America Society of Consulting Planners
ASCS Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (USDA)
ASDD Australian Spatial Data Directory
ASDI Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure
ASEE American Society for Engineering Education
ASFE Assn. of Soil and Foundation Engineers
ASFPM Assn. of State Floodplain Managers
ASGA Assn. des Services Geologiques Africains
ASHTD American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials
ASI Analytical Surveys, Inc.
ASLA American Society of Landscape Architects
ASLO American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
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
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
ATR1 Automatic Target Recognition module (Leica)
ATS Advanced Technology Satellite; Applications Technology Satellite; Automated Technical Systems (Firm)
AU Astronomical unit
AURISA Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Assn.
AUSDEC Australasian Data Exchange Centre
AUSLIG Australian Surveying and Land Information Group
Av. Avenue
AV Audio-visual
AVCA Audio-visual and Cartographic Archives Div., National Archives of Canada
Ave. Avenue
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVI Audio Visual Interleave
AVIRIS Advanced Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer
AVL Automatic Vehicle Location
AVNIR Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer
AVO 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
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

B Bulletin
B&L Boggs and Lewis
BA Booksellers Assn. of Great Britain & Ireland
BAAMA Bay Area Automated Mapping Assn.
BADGER Bay Area Digital GeoResource
BAKOSUR-
TANAL Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Indonesia) = National Coordination Agency for Surveying and Mapping (Indonesia)
Banobras Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos (Mexico)
BAOR British Army of the Rhine
BARCIS BARCode Information System
BARD San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database
BARP Bundesamt fur Raumplanung (Switzerland)
BART Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California)
BAS British Antarctic Survey
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Bay Area Shared Information Consortium
BASINS Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Systems (USEPA)
BB Band-by-band; Blattbereich
BBS Bulletin board system
BC British Columbia; Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.)
BCDC Bay Conservation and Development Commission
BCGS Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines)
BCH Beach
BCSS Battlefield Command Support System (Australian Army)
BDET Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd.
BDG Bridge
Bdy Boundary
BE Brick enclosed elevator
BEA Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates
B.E.F. British Expeditionary Force
BEG Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas)
BEICIP Bureau d'Etudes Industrielles et de Cooperation de l'Institut Francais du Petrole
bes. besonders
Betrbf Betriebsbahnhof
BETS Brunson Electronic Triangulation System
BEV Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria)
BfGR Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Germany)
BfLR Bundesanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumentwicklung (Germany)
BG Block group
BGC Business Geographics Conference
BGHT Bight
BGN Board on Geographic Names (U.S.)
BGS British Geological Survey
Bgw. Bergwerk = mine
Bhf. Bahnhof = Railway station
BHS Boston Harbor Software, Inc.
BI Big Idea (NIMA); Business intelligence
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)
BICI Book item contribution identifier
BIL Band Interleaved by Line
BIOMAPS Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
BIOTROP Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Indonesia)
BIP Band Interleaved by Pixel
Bl. Boulevard
BLDG Building
BLG Binary line generalization
BLIS Brownfields Location Information System (Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce)
BLM Bureau of Land Management (U.S.)
BLOB Binary large object
BLPU Basic land and property unit
BLS Bahamas Lands and Surveys Dept.
BLT Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland)
BLVA Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt
Blvd. Boulevard
BM Bench mark; Bureau of Mines
BMA Botswana Ministry of Agriculture
BMAC Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex
BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (U.S.)
BMG Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (Philippines)
.BMP Bitmapped image format (Microsoft Corp.)
BMR Bureau of Mineral Resources (Australia, Papua New Guinea)
BMW Barclay Mapworks, Inc.
BN Biblioth`eque Nationale
BNA Block numbering area
BND Stream bend
BNDT Base nationale de donnees topographiques (Canada)
BNPC Bathymetric navigation planning chart
BNPD Bivariate Normal Probability Density
BOA Building omission area
BOC Bureau of the Census
BOFRS Books and Open-File Report Section (USGS)
BOLS BADGER On-line Service
BOM Bureau of Mines
BOP Bureau of Printing
BOR Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.)
BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
BORPELS Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (Calif.)
BOSS Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on
BOTUS Best of the U.S. (Space Imaging)
BP Boundary marker (USDMA)
BPA Bonneville Power Administration
BPI Bits per Inch
BPPT Badan Pembinaan dan Penerapan Teknologi (Indonesia)
BPR Bureau of Public Roads
BPS Bits per Second
BR Bureau of Reclamation
br. breit
Br. Breite
Brck. Brucke = bridge
BRFD Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
BRICMICS British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems
BRGM Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France)
BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service
BS Bureau of Statistics (Japan)
BSC Boston Survey Consultants
BSE Base flood elevation
BSNH Headwater basin
BSQ Band Sequential
BSU Base Spatial Unit
BT Base Topo
BTA Basic Trading Areas (FCC)
BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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

C Cartography; Celsius (degrees)
ca. Circa
CA California; Cartographic and architectural
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)
CanSIS Canadian Soil Information System
CANSPACE Canadian Space Geodesy Forum
CAP Cooperative Agreements Program (FGDC)
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)
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
CaSIL California Spatial Information Library
CASS Coding and Accuracy Support System (USPS)
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)
CBET Concrete block enclosed elevator
CBI China Burma India Theatre of Operations (WW II)
CBL Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Suriname); Calibration base line
cbm Kubikmeter (cubic meter)
CBN Cooperative Base Network
CBP Chesapeake Bay Project
C. BR Concrete, lime, cinder or cement brick
CBS Community Base Station
CBWE Corn Blight Watch Experiment
CC Cartographic Catalog
CCA Canadian Cartographic Assn.
CCAP Competative Cooperative Agreements Program (U.S.)
CCBCCM Canadian Committee for the Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials
CCC Canadian Committee on Cataloging
CCCELS California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors
CCD Census county division; Computer Center Div. (USGS); Charged couple device; Charged-coupled device; Charge-coupled device
CCELC Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification
CCGE Canadian Council on Geographic Education
CCGM Center for Computing Graphics (Delft Univ. of Technology)
CCIG Centre canadien d'information sur la geoscience
CCID Chain component ID
CCISA Congress of Cartographic Information Specialist Associations
CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
CCLS Canadian Council of Land Surveyors
CCM Canada Centre for Mapping
CCNS4 Computer Controlled Navigation System (E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc.)
CCRS Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
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
CDH Communications and data handling
CDi Compact Disk interactive
CDIS Coordinated Design and Information System
CDMG California Div. of Mines and Geology
CDN Coordinates, definitions and notations
CDOW Colorado Division of Wildlife
CDOWG CD-ROM Data Origination Working Group (U.S.)
CDP Cartographer Development Program; Census designated place; Colorado Division of Planning
.CDR CorelDraw format
CD-R Compact disk-recordable
CD-ROM Compact disk-read only memory
CDRS Collaborative Digital Reference Service
CDS Catalogue of Data Sources
CDT Computer display terminal; Central Daylight Time; Constrained Delaunay triangulation
CDTED Compressed digital terrain elevation data
CDV Cartographic data visualizer
CD-W Compact disk-- re-writable
CDWR California Dept. of Water Resources
CE Corps of Engineers
C.E. Civil Engineer
CEAL Centro Editor de America Latina
CEAO County Engineers Association of Ohio
CEBAF Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
CECO Consulting Engineers Council of Ohio
CECSVB Comit pour l'Etablissement de la Carte des Sols et de la Vegetation de la Belgique
CECW Consulting Engineers Council of Washington
CEDAC Comprehensive Economic Data Atlas of China
CEDARE Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe
CEDD Committee on the Exchange of Digital Data
CEE Comite Estatal de Estadisticas (Cuba)
CEGET Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropical (Bordeaux)
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
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 Geospatial Data Infrastructure
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
CGPM Conference General des Poids et Mesures
C&GS Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Commercial & Government Systems (Kodak)
CGS Civil GPS Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Colorado Geological Survey
CGSB Canadian General Standards Board
CGSIC Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
CGSICO Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
CGU Canadian Geophysical Union
CGW Computer Graphics World (journal)
CH Chief Hydrologist; Church; Chapel
CHEEC Center for the Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (Univ. of Iowa)
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
CIA Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.)
CIAF Centro de Investigaciones en Percepcion Remota
CIAS CD-ROM Index Architecture Specification Working Group (U.S.)
CIACER Centro de Investigacion y Aplicacion de Sensores Remotos (Bolivia)
CIB Controlled image base
CIBESA Cartografica Iberica S.A.
CICAEDAS Committee Investigating Cartographic Entity, Definitions, and Standards
CIDAMM Centro de Informacion y Documentacion del Area Metropolitana de Madrid
CIE Iompair Eireann Coras; Classified image editor
CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
CIG Canadian Inst. of Geomatics; Climate Interest Group; Centro de Investigaciones Geotecnicas (El Salvador)
CIGF Centre d'Information Geographique et Fonci`ere Ministre de l'Energie et des Ressources, Quebec)
CIGNET Cooperative International GPS Network
CIKM Conference on Information Knowledge Management
CIM Collection insertion map; Council on Information Management (Virginia)
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
CLD Center line data
CLDB Common Land Data Base
CLDS Canada Land Data System(s)
CLI Canada Land Inventory
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
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)
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
CMO Canada Map Office
CMOTS Cartographic Material Order and Tracking System (USGS)
CMP Coastal Mapping Program; Camp
CMS California Map Society; Clay Minerals Society
CMSA Consolidated metropolitan statistical area
CMSDU Commission on Map Use and Spatial Data Use (ICA)
CMSM Committee on Marine Surveying and Mapping
CMT Corvallis Microtechnology Inc.
C&MT Communication & Measurement Technologies Ltd.
CMYK Cyan-magenta-yellow-black
CNA Comiss~ao Nacional do Ambiente (Portugal)
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
COEB Coastal and Estuarine Oceanography Branch (US NOS)
COFPAES Committee on the Federal Procurement of Architect and Engineer Services
COFRS Chinese Operational Earth Resources Satellite
COG Council of Governments
COGO Coordinate geometry
C.O.I. Office of Coordinator of Information (U.S.)
col. Color; colored
Col. Colonel; 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.)
CONC. Concrete or reinforced concrete construction
Cong. Congress
Conn. Connecticut
CONRIM Committee on Natural Resource Information Management(Alaska)
CONUS Continental United States
COP/BOP City of Portland Bureau of Planning
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORC Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (OCLC)
Corp. Corporal; Corporation
CORS Continuously operated reference station(s); Continuously operating GPS reference stations
CORSE Conference on Remote Sensing Education
COS Central Office of Statistics (Malta)
COSMIC Computer Software Management and Information Center
COSML Committee on Southern Map Libraries
COSPAR Committee on Space Research
COTS Commercial-off-the-shelf
COVIS Commonwealth of Virginia Information Systems
CP Cartographic Perspectives (journal); color printer
CPFS Colorado Plateau Field Station (USGS)
CPH Cartographic Publishing House (China)
CPID Composite ID
CPLAR Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (South Africa)
CPLC Court of Private Land Claims
CPS Characters per second; Contour plotting system; Cartographic production system
CPU Central processing unit
CR Central Region; Coordinate reader
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)
CRESP Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (U.S.)
CRG Centre de Recherche en Geomatique (Universite Laval)
CRIB Computerized Resources Information Bank
CRISTA Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere
CRKT Tidal creek
CRL Cartographic research laboratory
CRM Customer relationship management
CRN Canadian Road Network
CRPD City Real Property Database
CRREL Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratories
CRTR Crater
CRSC California Remote Sensing Council
C.S. Charles Simonneau
CSC California Surveying Corporation
CSDGM Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
CSDMS Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions
CRSS Canadian Remote Sensing Society
CRT Cathode ray tube
CS Color scanner; Cubic splines
CSAA California State Automobile Association
CSAC Census Statistical Area Committee (U.S.)
CSAV Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
CSC Computer Sciences Corporation; Commercial Space Center (NASA)
CSDGM Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (USA)
CSFS Colorado State Forest Service
CSG Cartography Special Group, Assn. of American Geographers; Council of State Governments
CSIN Computer Systems Information Network
CSIP Continental Scale International Project
CSIR Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain)
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
CSRS Canadian Spatial Reference System
CST Central Standard Time; Chicago Steel Tape Co.; Coast; Certified Survey Technician
Ct. Court
CT Census tract; Connecticut
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.)
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.)
CUET Cuesta
CUGiK Centralny Urzad Geodezji i Kartografii (Poland)
CUR Council on Undergraduate Research
CUSEC Central United States Earthquake Consortium
CUSMAP Conterminous United States Minerals Assessment Plan
CWRA Canadian Water Resources Program
CWS Cartographic workstation
CYP Cape York Peninsula
CYPLUS Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy
CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner
CZM Coastal Zone Management (U.S. federal act of 1972)

D

D Dwelling
DA Data Acquisition; Dept. of the Army
D/A Digital to Analog (converter)
DAAC Div. des archives audiovisuelles et cartographiques, Archives nationales du Canada
DAAS Defense Automatic Addressing System (USDMA)
DAASC Defense Automated Addressing System Center (USDMA)
DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter
DACA Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles, Archives nationales du Canada
DACH Deputy Assistant Chief Hydrologist
DADS Digital Assisted Data Base System
DAESA Dual Axis Fourier Shape Analysis
DAG Directorate of Geographic Affairs (Lebanon)
DAIS-1 Digital Airborne Imagery System (Space Imaging (Firm))
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
DA&SM Data Acquisitions & Systems Maintenance
DAT Digital audio tape
DATIS Digital Airborne Topographic Imaging System
DATPE Direction de l'Amernagement du Territoire et de la Protection de l'Environnement (Haiti)
D.A.V. Deutscher Alpenverein
DB Data base
DBB Deutsche Bundesbahn
DBDB Digital Bathymetry Data Base (U.S. government)
DBH Diameter at breast height
DBI Database Indexing
DBMS Database management system
DBPPWG Data Base Population Planning Working Group
DBPWG Data Base Population Working Group
DBR Dienst Bodemkartering (Suriname)
DBS Data Base Specifications; Direct broadcast satellites
DC District Chief; District of Columbia; Div. Chief; Dublin Core
D.C. District of Columbia
DCA Dept. of Community Affairs (Montana)
DC&A Data Collection and Analysis
DCASS Digital Cartographic Software System
DCDB Digital Cartographic Data Base
DCDSTF Digital Cartographic Data Standards Task Force (U.S.)
DCE Data Communication Equipment; Distributed Computing Environment
DCF Digital Cartographic File
DCHUM Digital Chart Update Manual (USDMA)
DCI Differential Corrections, Inc.; Director of Central Intelligence
DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DCN Direccion de Cartografia Nacional (Venezuela); Document control number
DCP Dept. of city planning; Digital Cartographic Production; Data collection platform
DCPS Digital Cartographic Production Segment
DCR Design Concept Review
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
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
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
DE Data extraction; Delaware
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.
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
DFW Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
DGC Direct Geodetic Constraint (software)
DGCM Direct Geodetic Constraint Method
DGDF Digital Geospatial Data Files
DGEC Direccion General de Estadistica y Censos (Costa Rica)
DGF Dept. of Game and Fish
DGG Direccion General de Geografia (Mexico)
DGGM Direccion General de Geologia y Minas (Colombia)
DGGS Div. of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (Alaska); Directorate General of Geological Surveys (Iraq)
DGI Direktorat Geologi (Indonesia)
DGIAI Direccion General de Integracion y Analisis de la Informacion (Mexico)
DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard
DGIWG Digital Geographic Information Working Group
DGfK Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kartographie
DGK 5 Deutsche Grundkarte 1:5 000
DGM Div. des Gites Mineraux de l'Assn. Geologique du Canada; Direction de la Geologie et des Mines (Burkina Faso); Direccion General de Mineria (Dominican Republic)
DGMG Direccion General de Minas y Geologia (Venezuela)
DGMP Direccion de Geologia, Minas y Petrolio (Costa Rica)
DGN Domestic geographic name
DGNR Domestic Geographic Names Report (U.S.)
DGO Direccion General de Oceanografia (Mexico)
DGP Digital Graphic Product
DGPA Direccion General de la Produccion Agraria (Spain)
DGPS Differential Global Positioning System; Differential Global Positioning Satellite
DGRM Direccion General de Recursos Minerales (Panama)
DGS Dept. of Geological Survey (Botswana); Delaware Geological Survey
DGSE Dept. of Geological Survey and Exploration (Burma)
DGU Danmarks Geologiske Undersogelse
DH Drill hole
D.H. Double hydrant
DHI Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut; Defense Hydrographic Initiative (USDMA)
DHN Directoria de Hidrografia e Navegac~ao (Brazil)
DI Data Integration; Digital image
DIA Defence Intelligence Agency (U.S.); Dept. of Indian Affairs; Dept. of International Affairs
DIAL Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (Univ. of Arizona); Differential Absorption LiDAR (Optech)
diam. Diameter
DIAM Defense Intelligence Agency Manual
DiAP Digital Image Analytical Plotter (ISM)
DID Data information delivery; Data information description; Digital Image Data
DIDS Digital Information Display System (U.S.)
DIELOG DAASC Integrated E-Mail Logistics System (USDMA)
DIES Digital Image Enhancement System
DIF Data Integration Function; Data Interchange Format; Display Information Facility; Document Interchange Format (U.S. Navy)
difSAR Differential SAR
DIGCAT Digital Catalog
DIGIT

Digitally Integrated Geographic Information Technologies (laboratory, Univ. of Utah Geography Dept.)
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)
DIP Data Integration Program
DIPS Digital Image Processing System
DIRS Digital Image Rectification/Registration System
DIS Distributed Information System; Draft International Standard (ISO)
DISGIS Distributed Geographical Information Systems
DISHIDROS Dinas Hidro Oceanografi (Indonesia)
Dist. District
DISTDAHS Distributed Satellite Telemetry Data Handling System
Div. Division
DKDGS Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab
DL Data logging
DLA Diffusion-limited aggregation
DLCW Department of Land and Water Conservation (NSW)
DLG Digital Line Graph
DLG-E Digital Line Graph--Enhanced
DLGF Digital Line Graph--Framework
DLG-O Digital Line Graph--Optional
DLG2DEM Digital Line Graph to Digital Elevation Model (production software)
DLG-3 Digital Line Graph--level 3
DLI Digital Library Initiative (U.S.); Data Liberation Initiative (Canada)
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)
DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act
DME Distance measuring equipment; Dept. of Mines and Energy (Nova Scotia)
DMI Digital Mapping, Inc.
DMMG Direccion Nacional de Mineria y Geologia (Uruguay)
DMMR Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources (Saudi Arabia)
DMR Dept. of Mineral Resources (New South Wales)
DMRS Data Management and Retrieval System
DMRT Dept. of Mineral Resources of Thailand
DMS

Data Management System; Desktop Mapping System (R-WEL, Inc.); Drawing Management System; Defense Mapping School (USDMA); Defense Message System (USDoD); Distribution Management System; Degrees, minutes, seconds
DMSI Data Management Segment Interface Control Document
DMSO Defense Mapping School Operations Office (USDMA)
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMTI Desktop Mapping Technologies Inc.
DMU Defense Mapping Unit (Singapore)
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
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
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)
DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
DRBC Delaware River Basin Commission
DRF Digital Raster File
DRG Digital Raster Graphic; Davey Resource Group
DRGM Direction des Recherches gologiques et minires (Niger)
DRGP Digital Representation of Graphic Products
DRGS Direct Readout Ground Station
DRO Digital Revision Overlay
DS Digital subsystem
DSD Digital Sailing Directions
DSDP Deep Sea Drilling Project
DSF Delivery sequence file (U.S. Postal Service)
DSGM Direcc~ao de Servicos de Geologia e Minas (Angola); Direccion del Servicio Geografico Militar (Paraguay)
DSGZ Dept. of the Surveyor General (Zimbabwe)
DSIR Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia, New Zealand)
DSL Dept. of Surveys and Lands (Botswana); Data Service Laboratory
DSM Directorate of Surveys and Mapping (South Africa)
DSN Deep Space Network; 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 (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; 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
DWR Dept. of Water Resources
DXF Drawing Interchange File; Digital Exchange Format
DySIS Dynamic Software and Integrated Solutions, Inc.
D-2 National Interest Lands, Section D-2, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
D3 Digital Design Data

E

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
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBR Electron Beam Recorder
EBRPD East Bay Regional Park District (California)
EBX Electronic book exchange
ECAI Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
ECDIS Electronic Chart Display and Information System (U.S.)
ECE E. Coyote Enterprises
ECEF EarthCentered EarthFixed
ECI Election Commission of India
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
EEC European Economic Community
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
E.F. Eisenbahnfaehre
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
Eisb. Brck. Eisenbahnbrucke = Railroad bridge
EIWG Earth Imaging Working Group
ELC End of line code
ELMO Electronic Map Ordering
El.W. Elektrizitatswerk = electric power station
EM Electromagnetic
E.M. Mining Engineer
EMA Environmental Management Agency; Ethopian Mapping Authority
EMAIL Electronic Mail
EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S. EPA)
EMC Eastern Mapping Center (USGS)
EMIP European Market for Infrastructural Projects
EMPS Elevation Matrix Processing System
EMR Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; Electromagnetic radiation
EMS Electromagnetic spectrum
E.N.E. East-northeast
Eng. Dept. Engineering Dept.; Dept. of Engineers
Engr. Bn. Engineer Battalion
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
ENID Endnote ID
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
EPS Encapsulated PostScript
ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
ERCE Groupe d'Etudes de Recherches Critiques d'Espace (Universite du Quebec, Montreal)
ERDAS Earth Resources Data Analysis System
ERDC Earth Resources Data Center (ERIM); 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
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)
E.S.E. East-southeast
ESI EagleScan Inc.; Enironmental Sensitivity Index
ESIC Earth Science Information Center (USGS); Earth Sciences Information Centre (Canada)
ESIG Exemplary Systems in Government award (URISA)
ESIM Earth Science Information Manager
ESIN Earth Science Information Network
ESIO Earth Science Information Office
ESIS Earth Science Information System
ESL Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc.
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.)
ESSI Earth Search Sciences Inc.
E. St. Eisenbahn Station = railway station
EST Eastern Standard Time
ES&T Environmental Science and Technology
ESV EarthSystemsVisualizer
ET Frame enclosed elevator with self-closing traps
ETF European Transfer Format
ETL Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USCE)
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
EVO Ernst Volker (Oldenburg, Germany)
Ex. doc. Executive document

F

F Fahrenheit; Flat
FA Fire alarm box
FAA Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.)
FAAT Fully Analytical Aerotriangulation
FAC Feature analysis code(s)
FACC Feature and Attribute Coding Catalog
FACE Field Ancillary Computer Effort
FACM Florida Assn. of Cadastral Mappers
FACS Feature Attribute Coding Standard; Feature Attribute Coding System
Fahrb. Fahrbahn = roadway
FAO Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations)
FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s)
FARC Federal Archives and Record Center
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
FDIS Formal Draft International Standard (ISO)
FDLP Federal Depository Library Program (US GPO)
FDLS Fiji Dept. of Lands and Survey
FDPP Framework Demonstration Projects Program (FGDC)
FE Feature extraction; Field engineer; Frame enclosed elevator
F.E. Forest Engineer
fe. Fecit (maker)
FEAT Alternate Feature Identification Code
fec. Fecit (maker)
FED Field-emission displays
FEE Feature Extraction Environment
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency (U.S.)
FEP Feature Extraction Processor
FES Feature Extraction Segment
FESWMS Finite Element Surface Water Model System
FEWS Feature Extraction Workstation
FGCC Federal Geodetic Control Committee (U.S.)
FGCS Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee (U.S.)
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee (U.S.)
FGEF Federal Geographic Exchange Format (U.S.)
F.G.S. Fellow of the Geological Society
FGS Florida Geological Survey
FGT Federal Geographic Technology (U.S.)
FH Field headquarters
FHA Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)
FHWA Federal Highway Administration (U.S.)
FICCDC Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography (U.S.)
FIG Federation Internationale des Geom`etres = International Federation of Surveyors
FII Fundacion Instituto de Ingeneiria
FILS Federal Government Information Locator System
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard(s); Flagstaff Image Processing System
FIRM Flood Rate Insurance Map
FIRMS Flood Rate Insurance Maps
FL Florida; Focal length; Function libraries
Fla. Florida
FLHO Federal Lands Highway Office (U.S.)
FLIMAP Fast Laser Imaging Mapping and Profiling (system)
FLIR Forward-looking Infrared
FLL Waterfall
FLOPS Floating Point Operations per Second
FM Facilities management; Field manual
F.M. Field Marshall
FMC Federal Maritime Commission (U.S.)
FME Feature Manipulation Engine (Safe Software Inc.)
FMGIS Flight management geographic information system
FMLIS Federal Mineral Lands Information System
FMP Field Pack Mobile Professional (All Points Software)
FMS Facility Mapping Systems Inc.; Flight Managing System
FMS/AC Facility Mapping System for AutoCAD
FNESA Federation of New England Surveyors Assn.s
FO Field office
F.O. Field Officer; Foreign Office
FOC Full operational capability
FOGs Fiber Optic Gyros
FOM Field Operations Manual
FORTRAN Formula Translation (computer language)
FOUO For official use only
FOV Field of view
FPC Federal Power Commission; Federal Publishers Committee
FPT Full production training
FPU Floating point unit
FRA Federal Railroad Administration
FRAP Fire and Resource Assessment Program (Calif. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection)
FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (IFLA)
FRC Federal Records Center (U.S.)
F.R.G.S. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
FRM Farm
FRP Federal Radio-navigation Plan
F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal Society
FS Fire station; Forest Service (U.S.); Federal Survey Div. (Nigeria)
FSLUPC Federal/State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska
FSMS Florida Surveying and Mapping Society
FSO Field Support Office (U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories)
FSPLS Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors
FSR Flight Summary Report
FSRAMIS Forest Service Range Management Information System
FT Field terminator
Fth. Fathom
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.)
FZDS Flood Zone Determination Services

G

G Geometry
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
GAP Gap Analysis Program (USNBS); Geographic Application Program
GAT Geography Assn. of Thailand
GB Gigabyte; Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria)
GBA GeoBusiness Assn.; George Butler Associates, Inc.
GBf Guterbahnhof = freight depot
GBF Geographic Base File
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)
GCP Ground 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
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
GDS Graphic Data Systems Corp; Grumman Data Systems; Geo-Data System; Geographic Data Service (U.S.)
GDT Geographic Data Technology Inc.
GDTA Groupement pour le Developpement de la Teledetection Aerospatiale (France)
GE General Electric; Geographic equivalent
GEBCO General bathymetric chart of the oceans = Carte generale bathymetrique des oceans
GEDS General Environmental Data Base System (Florida)
GEGMR General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources (Syria)
GEM Graphical Environment Manager
GEMS Global Environment Monitoring System
GEO Geospatial Metadata Application Profile (USA)
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
Geol. Geology
GEOLAN Geological (survey) local area network
GEOREF Geological Reference (system)
GEOS Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite
GEOSAT Geodesy Satellite
GEOSEC Geographic Security
GeoTMS Geographic Town Management System (Des Lauriers & Assoc. Inc.)
GEOZAVOD Zavod za Geoloska i Geofizicksa Istrazivanja (Yugoslavia)
Ges. Gesamt-
GES Geographic Entry System
gest. Gestechen = Engraved
gez. Gezeichnet = Designed
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.)
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
GIA Geographic information analysis; Geographic information and analysis; GPS International Assn.
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
GIG Geologic Inquiries Group
GILS Government Information Locator Service
GIMS Geographic Information Management Systems Committee (ASCM/ASPRS)
GIO Geographic Information Officer; Geograpic Investigations Office (USGS)
GIPS Generalized Image Processing Sytstem
GIRAS Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System (USGS)
GIS Geographic(al) information system(s); Geohydrologic Information System; Geoscience Information Society; Global Indexing System
GISCO Geographic Information System of the European Commission
GISDEX Federal Geographic Information and Spatial Data Exposition and Conference (U.S.)
GISIC Geographical Information Systems International Group
GISMO GIS MOdeling (ERDAS)
GISOM Generating Information and Scanning Ohio Maps (Ohio State Univ. Center for Mapping)
GISS Goddard Institude of Space Studies
GIST Geographic Information System for Transportation
GITA Geospatial Information & Technology Assn.
GIV Geologic Information Visualization (software)
GKP Geodeticky a Kartograficky Podnik v Praze
GKS Graphics Kernal System
Gl. Gleis
GLAB Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt
GLAB-W Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg
GLAI Green leaf area index
GLAN-W Geologisches Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen
GLAS Geoscience Laser Altimeter System; Geologisches Landesamt des Saarlandes
GLAS-H Geologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein
GLI Global Imager
GLIS Geographic Land Information System (USGS); Geographic and Land Information Society
GLM General linear model
GLO General Land Office (U.S.)
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
GM Geography and Map; Geologic map
GMAT Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time
GMD Geologisch Mijnbouwkundige Dienst van Suriname
GME Geohydrologic Map Editor
GML Geography Markup Language
GMR Government Micro Resources Inc.
GMS Geostationary meteorological satellite(s); Geographic Measurement Systems (Firm)
G.M.S.I.

Ground Modeling Systems Inc.; Gandalf Mobile Systems Incorporated; GMSI Inc. is a firm (not an abbreviation)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time; Generic Mapping Tools
G.M.T. Giuseppi Maria Terreni
GN Grid north
GNC Geologic Names Committee; Global navigation chart
GNIS Geographic Names Information System (U.S.)
GNMP Gettysburg National Military Park
GNS GEOnet Names Server (USNIMA)
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GNU Geologic Names Unit (USGS)
GNULEX Geologic Names Unit Lexicon (USGS)
GO Geometric Operations
G&O Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.
GODORT Government Documents Round Table (ALA)
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NASA)
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GOMS Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite(s)
Gov. Governor
Gov. Gen. Governor General
GP Graphic production; Graphics processor; Geography Program (USGS)
GPF Geospatial Prototype Facility
GPG Graphic Product Generation
GPH Geological Publishing House (China)
GPI Graphics Programming Interface
GPIP General Purpose Image Processor
GPM Gestalt Photo Mapper
GP.MC Geoprocessing Map Call
GP.MCD Geoprocessing Map Call Deamon program
GPO Government Printing Office
GPOS Government Printing Office Style Manual
GPPU Graphic Polygon Processing Utilities
GPR Ground-Penetrating Radar
GPS Global positioning system(s)
GPSDR Global positioning system demonstration receiver
GPSIC Global Positioning System Information Center (U.S. Coast Guard); GPS Industry Council
GPST Global positioning system time
GQ Geologic quadrangle
GQL Graphical Query Language
gr. gross
Gr. Grosse
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
GRF-N Geographic Reference File-Names
GRIDS Grid Referenced Information Display System; Gridded Resource Inventory Data System
GRS Geodetic Reference System
GRS 80 Geodetic Reference System of 1980
GRSU Geography Remote Sensing Unit (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
GS Geological Survey (U.S.); Gray scale
GSA General Services Administration (U.S.); Geological Society of America; Geological Survey of Alabama
GSC Geological Survey of Canada; Geographic Systems Corp.; Geotronics Service Center; Geocode Service Center (HUD)
GSD Ground sample distance; Geological Survey Dept. (Malawi); Geological Survey Div. (Jamaica); Geodetic Survey Div. (Natural Resources Canada)
GSDI Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
GSDM Global Spatial Data Model
GSDS Global spatial data system
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
GSGS Geographical Section, General Staff (U.K.)
GSHAP Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
GSI Geodetic Survey Inst. (Japan); Geophysical Services Inc.; Geological Survey of India; Geological Survey of Iran; Geolical Survey Inst. (Japan); Geological Survey of Ireland
GSJ Geological Survey of Japan
GSK Geological Survey of Kenya
GSL Geographic Sciences Laboratory (USCE)
GSM Graphic Standard Metafile
GSMD Geological Survey and Mines Dept. (Swaziland)
GSN Geological Survey of Namibia
GSNI Geological Survey of Northern Ireland
GSP Geological Survey of Pakistan; Geographical statistics program
GSPB Geodetic Satellite Policy Board
GSPNG Geological Survey Papua New Guinea
GSRC Geological Survey Research Committee
GSS Geographic support system
GSSA Geological Survey South Africa
GST Galileo System Time
GSTC Geospatial Service and Technology Center (USFS)
GSW Geological Survey of Wyoming
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
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
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
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

H

h. hoch = high
H. Hohe = height
ha. Hectare; Hektar
HA Hydrologic Atlas
HABS Historic American Buildings Survey
HAC Harbor and Approach Chart
HALS Hawaii Assn. of Land Surveyors
HARN High-Accuracy Reference Network (U.S.)
Hauptm. Hauptmann = Captain
Hbf Hauptbahnhof = main railway station
HBCA Hudson Bay Company Archives
HBF Herbert Bismarck Foster
HBM Hydrologic bench mark
HBMN Hydrologic Bench Mark Network
HC Hard copy
HCC Heat Capacity Mapping Mission
HCDN Hydroclimate Data Network
HCMM Heat-capacity Mapping Mission
HCMR Heat-capacity Mapping Radiometer
HCRS Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service (U.S.)
HD Hydrographic Dept. (Great Britain)
HDDT High-Density Digital Tape
HDLD Headland
HDOP Horizontal Dilution of Precision
HDT High density tape
HDT-A High density tape (not geometrically corrected)
HDTR High density tape recorder
HDTV High-definition television
HEIRS Historic Environmental Reporting System (IAO)
Herst. Herstellung
HE/S Hardcopy Exploitation Segment
HF High frequency
HFA Hydrologic field assistant
Hfn Hafen = port, harbor
Hgbf Hauptgueterbahnhof
HGCSD Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District (U.S.)
.HGL Newlett-Packard Graphics Language format
HGML Hyper Graphic Markup Language
HGS Halliburton Geophysical Services
HHG Household goods (Rand McNally MileMaker)
HI Hawaii
HIA Hydrologic Investigations Atlas
HIF Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility
Hind. Hindustan
HIRAN High Range Navigation
HIRS High-resolution Infrared Sounder
HIS Hydrologic Information System
HISS Heritage Information Statistical System
HIT Horizons Technolgy Inc.
HIU Hydrologic Information Unit
HJW Hammon, Jensen, Wallen & Associates; 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
HOM Hotine oblique Mercator
Hon. Honorable
Hp Haltepunkt = stopping place
HP Hewlett-Packard (corp.)
HPFS High pressure fire service
HPGL Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
HPGN High-Precision Geodetic Network
HPP High Precision Photogrammetry
HPRASA High Plains Regional Aquifer System
HQ Headquarters
HR House of Representatives
HRB Highway Research Board
HRD High-resolution data
HRDB High-resolution Data Base
HRDI High-resolution Doppler Imager
HRFRS High-resolution Film Recorder Subsystem
HRGA High Rate Geographical Areas
HRIR High-resolution Infrared Radiometer
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
HSDL High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
HSGT Hitachi Software Global Technology, Ltd.
HSI Horizontal Situation Indicator; Habitat Suitability Index
H. St. Eisenbahn Haltstelle = railway stop
HTC Hydrographic Topographic Center (USDMA)
H., T.C. Thomas Campanius Holm
HTDP Horizontal Time-Dependent Positioning
HTI Horizons Technology, Inc.
HTML Hypertext (or HyperText) Markup Language
HUA Hydrologic Unit Area
HUC Hydrologic Unit Code
HUD Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.)
Hund. Hundred
H.W. Hochwasser
H/W Hardware

I

I. Island
IA Infrastructure Analyst (BaySys Technologies Inc.); Iowa
IACWD Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data
IADO Instituto Argentino de Oceanografia
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEG International Assn. of Engineering Geologists
IAG International Assn. of Geodesy
IAGS Inter-American Geodetic Survey
IAH International Association of Hydrogeologists
IAHS International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences = Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques
IALA International Assn. of Lighthouse Authorities
IALS Idaho Assn. of Land Surveyors
IAMA International Antiquarian Mapsellers Association
IAO Insurers' Advisory Organization
IAOO International Assn. of Assessing Officers
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)
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)
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
ICGRS Internet-Enabled Continuous Geodetic Reference Station
ICGWM International Clearinghouse for Ground Water Models
ICHC International Conference on the History of Cartography
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)
ICR Intelligent Character Reader
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
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
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
IEMVT Institut d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux
IEP Independent electric plant
IERS International Earth Rotation Service
IES Inst. for Environmental Sciences
IF Frame identification
IfAG Institut fur Angewandte Geodasie
IFF Interchange Format File (Commodore Amiga)
IFLA International Assn. of Library Asociations and Institutions
IFN Service de l'Inventaire Forestier National (France)
IFOV Instantaneous Field of View
IFP Institut Francais de Pondicherry; Institut Francais du Petrole
IFR Instrument Flight Regulation
IFREMER Institut francais de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer
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)
IGS Information & Graphics Systems Inc.; International GPS Service; Idaho Geological Survey; Indiana Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Israel
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
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
IJC International Joint Commission (U.S. & Canada)
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
ILRIS-3D Intelligent Laser Range Imaging Scanner (Optech)
ILS Intelligent Library System (Lockheed Martin)
ILWIS Integrated Land and Water Information System (ITC)
IM Information management
IMA Intermap Analytic
IMACUAC Information Management and Computer Utilization Advisory Committee
IMAG Information Management Advisory Group
IMACS Integrity Monitoring and Control Software (Javad Positioning Systems)
IMAGE Integrated Mapping and Geographic Encoding System
IMAGE 100 Interactive Multispectral Image Analysis System (GE)
IMAN Image Analysis (system); Intermap Analytic Nucleus
IMAP Input, Management, Analysis, and Presentation
IMC Image Motion Compensator
IMCoS International Map Collectors Society
IMDA International Map Dealers Assn.
.IMG ADRG image format (USDMA)
IMGW Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej (Poland)
IMLS Institute of Museum and Library Services (US)
IMO International Maritime Organization
IMP Integrated Micro Products Inc.
IMPAC Image Analysis Computer Package (Egbert Scientific)
IMS Intermediate map scale; Image Manipulation System; Internet Map Server (ESRI)
IMSI International Microcomputer Software, Inc.
IMT Information Management Technologies (Firm); Internet Media Type
IMTA International Map Trade Assn.
IMW International Map of the World
in. Inch; inches
IN Indiana
INC Institut National de Cartographie
INCG Institut National de Cartographie du Gabon; Institut Geographique National Guineen
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
Inst. Institute
INSTAAR Inst. of Arctic and Alpine Research (Univ. of Colorado)
INTA Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (Argentina)
INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite (organization)
INTRISCA Integrated Resource Inventory for South-Central Alaska
INUPAL Informaciones Unidas para America Latina (Chile)
IO Input/output; Interior orientation
I/O Input/output
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission; Initial operational capability
ION Institute of Navigation
IOP International Organisation of Palaeobotany
IOS Institute of Oceanographic Science (Great Britain)
IP Internet protocol; Image point
IPA Imagery Product Archive (USDMA)
IPAM Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazonia
IPCS Image Production Control System
IPE Image processing engine
IPF Image Processing Facility (GSFC)
IPGP Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
IPRG Inst. for Petroleum Resources and Geophysics (Israel)
IPLSA Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Assn.
IPOSTEL Instituto Postal Telegrafico (Venezuela)
IPP Integrated Plotting Package
IPS Image processing system; Inertial Positioning System
IPT Informatica per il Territorio; Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas (Sao Paulo, Brazil); Integrated Product Team
IPX Internet Packet Exchange
IR Imaging Radiometer; Infrared
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
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
ISCEM International Society of Curators of Early Maps
ISD Information Services Div.
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISEA Icosahedral Snyder equal area (projection)
ISERT Institut Superieur pour les Etudes et Recherches Scientifique et Techniques (Djibouti)
ISGS Illinois State Geological Survey
ISI Image Subsystem Interface; Information Systems Inventory (EPA); Interpretation System, Inc.
I-SITE Intelligent Screening of Imagery for Teleophthalmology
Isl. Island
ISL Island
ISLP Land-tied island
ISLS Islands
ISM Interpretive Structural Modeling
ISMS International Society for Mine Surveying
ISO Imaging Spectrometer Observatory; International Standards Organization
ISP Internet service provider
ISPI Intermediate-scale Product Inventory
ISPLS Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors
ISPRS International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
ISR Information Storage and Retrieval
IS&T Information Systems and Technology
ISTAT Istituto Centrale di Statistica (Italy)
ISTD Inter-Services Topographical Dept. (Great Britain)
ISTH Isthmus
ISU International System of Units
ISURL Indiana State Univ. Remote Sensing Laboratory
IT Information technology; Integration Technologies Inc.
I.T. Idaho Territory
ITA Intelligent Traverse Adjustment
ITAA Information Technology Assn. of America
ITC International Inst. for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (Netherlands; formerly International Training Centre for Aerial Survey); International Trade Commission
ITCA International Topographic Composition Assn.
ITD Interim Terrain Data
ITE Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (Great Britain)
ITF INTERLIS Transfer Format
ITFE Inductive terrain feature extraction
ITRF International Terrestrial Reference Frame
ITRF00 International Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2000
ITRM Information Technology Resouces Management (standard, Virginia)
ITRS International Terrestrial Reference System
ITS Intelligent transportation system
ITSA Independent Travel Stores Assn.
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.

J

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)
JCCDS Joint Committee on Cartographic Data Standardization (U.S.)
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
.jgw JPEG with World File
J.H. Jagerhaus = hunting lodge
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency = Kokusai Kyoryoku Jigyodan
JIGI Java Interface for Geospatial Information
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee
J&K Jammu and Kashmir
JMC Japan Map Center
JMPC Joint Mapping and Photography Committee (U.S.)
JMT Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson (Firm)
JMTK Joint Mapping Tool Kit
JNC Jet Navigation Chart
JNGC Jordan National Geographic Centre
JOG Joint operations graphic
JOG-A Joint operations graphic--air
JOG-G Joint operations graphic--ground
JOG-R Joint operations graphic--radar
JOIDES Joint Oceanographic Institutions' Deep Earth Sampling
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.
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
JWS James W. Sewall Company, Inc.

K

K 1,000; Kilo
KAM Kansas Assn. of Mappers
Kan. Kansas
KANDIDATS Univ. of Kansas Landsat Software System
KAPS Kentucky Assn. of Land Surveyors
KARS Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (program)
KB Kilobyte
KBPS Kilobytes per second
KCWA Kern County Water Agency (Calif.)
KDD Knowledge discovery in databases
KDI Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
KDMS Kork Digital Mapping System
KDSP Kork Digital Stereo Plotter
K+F Kummerly + Frey AG
Kfz. Kraftfahrzeug
KGPS Kinematic GPS
KGS Kansas Geological Survey; Kentucky Geological Survey
kHz. Kilohertz
KHz. Kilohertz
KIER Korean Inst. of Energy and Resources
Kil. Kilometer
KINDS Knowledge Interfaces to National Data Sets
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
KNP Kruger National Park
KNRIS Kentucky Natural Resources Information System
KREMU Kenya Rangeland Ecological Monitoring Unit
KRIS Kentucky Resources Information System
KSNM Thousands (K) of square nautical miles
KU Univ. of Kansas
kV Kilovolt
kW Kilowatt
KW Kilowatt
KWIC Key Word in Context
KWOC Key Word Out of Context
Ky. Kentucky
KY Kentucky