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Lidar for Science and Resource Management

Acromyms & Abreviations: Decision Support for Coastal Science and Management

Acronym/Abreviation:      Definition:
ADAPT ATRIS Data Analysis and Processing Tool
AGL Above Ground Level
ALPS Airborne Lidar Processing System
AOI Area(s) of Interest
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIS Assateague Island National Seashore
ASPRS American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing    
ATM Airborne Topographic Mapper
ATRIS Along Track Reef Imaging System
BA Bathymetry
BE Bare-Earth
BISC Biscayne National Park
CH Canopy Height
CHIS Channel Islands National Seashore
CIR Color Infrared
CLICK Center for Lidar Information Coordination and Knowledge
cm Centimeter(s)
CMECS Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard
CMGP Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CPE Coastal Planning and Engineering
CRR Canopy Reflection Ratio
CTD Conductivity Temperature Depth
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DOQQ Digital Orthophoto Quarter-Quadrangle
DRTO Dry Tortugas National Park
DS Data Series
DSM Digital Surface Model
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
EAARL Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
FIIS Fire Island National Seashore
FISC Florida Integrated Science Center
FKNMS Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
FOV Field-Of-View
FS First-Surface
GAM General Additive Models
GATE Gateway National Recreation Area
GB Gigabyte(s)
GeoTIFF Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format
GIS Geographic Information System
GLM General Linear Models
GPS Global Positioning System
GUI Graphical User Interface
GULN Gulf Coast Network
HOME Height of Median Energy
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
IDI Integrated Discrimination Improvement
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
INS Inertial Navigation System
IRCF Iterative Random Consensus Filter
JELA Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve
kHz Kilohertz
LAS Log ASCII Standard
lidar Light Detection and Ranging
LSU Louisiana State University
m Meter(s)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAD83 North American Datum 1983
NAVD88 North American Vertical Datum 1988
NCBN Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network
NGOM Northern Gulf of Mexico
nm Nanometer(s)
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPS National Park Service
NRI Net Reclassification Improvement
OFR Open-File Report
PAIS Padre Island National Seashore
PDF Portable Document Format
RANSAC Random Sample Consensus
RCF Random Consensus Filter
RGB Red-Green-Blue
RMSE Root Mean Square Error
SBMP Servicewide Benthic Mapping Program
SEMO State Emergency Management Office
SFCN South Florida-Caribbean Network
SLBE Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
SST Sea Surface Temperatures
ST Submerged Topography
TIF Tagged Image File
TIN Triangulated Irregular Network
USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System
WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984
XML Extensible Markup Language

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