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A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science at the United States Geological Survey
GIScience geographic information science
GNIS Geographic Names Information System
GOS Geospatial One-Stop
GPS Global Positioning System
IGN Institute Géographique National
ISO International Organization for Standardization
LCS Least Squares Collocation
LIDAR light detection and ranging
MSC Mapping Science Committee
NCGIA National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGAC National Geospatial Advisory Committee
NGPO National Geospatial Program Office
NGTOC National Geospatial Technical Operations Center
NHGIS National Historical Geographic Information System
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC National Research Council
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSF National Science Foundation
OCG Optional Content Group
OGC Open Geospatial Consortium
OS Ordnance Survey
PDF Portable document format
R&D research and development
REST Representational State Transfer
SLD styled layer descriptor
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SPIRIT Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval on the Internet
TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
TIN triangulated irregular network
TNM The National Map
UCD user-centered design
UCGIS University Consortium for Geographic Information Science