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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2002. Research Opportunities in Geography at the U.S. Geological Survey. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10486.
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Appendix C
Acronyms


AVHRR

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer


BGN

U.S. Board on Geographic Names

BTS

Bureau of Transportation Statistics


CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CTM

Cooperative Mapping


DAAC

Distributed Active Archive Center

DEM

Digital Elevation Model

DLG

Digital Line Graphs

DOC

Department of Commerce

DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

Department of Energy

DOI

Department of Interior

DRG

Digital Raster Graphics


EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EROS

Earth Resources Observation Systems

ETM+

Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus


FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

FY

Fiscal Year


GAM

Geographic Analysis and Monitoring

GAP

Gap Analysis Program

GeoMAC

Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

GIScience

Geographic Information Science

GNIS

Geographic Names Information System

GPS

Global Positioning System

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2002. Research Opportunities in Geography at the U.S. Geological Survey. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10486.
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GS

General Schedule


HRV

Historical Range Of Variation


InSAR

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar

IGBP

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme


LIDAR

Light Detection and Ranging

LP DAAC

Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center

LRS

Land Remote Sensing


MSS

Multispectral Scanner


NALC

North American Landcover

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NDEP

National Digital Elevation Program

NED

National Elevation Dataset

NHD

National Hydrography Dataset

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NIMA

National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NLCD

National Land Cover Dataset

NMFS

National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC

National Research Council

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSF

National Science Foundation

NWIS

National Water Information Service


SCT

Strategic Change Team

SDTS

Spatial Data Transfer Standard


TM

Thematic Mapper


USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator Grid

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2002. Research Opportunities in Geography at the U.S. Geological Survey. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10486.
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