Appendix F. Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms

 

ACWI

Advisory Committee on Water Information

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

BLM

Bureau of Land Management

CadNSDI

Cadastral National Spatial Data Infrastructure

CAP

Cooperative Agreements Program

CIO

Chief Information Officer

CKAN

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network

CPIC

Capital Planning and Investment Control

CSDGM

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

CSW

Catalog Service for the Web

DHS

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

DOI

U.S. Department of the Interior

DOL

U.S. Department of Labor

DOT

U.S. Department of Transportation

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ESA

Ecological Society of America

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FSA

Farm Service Agency

FWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

GAO

Government Accountability Office

GENC

Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes

GEO

Group on Earth Observations

GeoCloud

Geospatial Cloud

GeoCONOPS                

Geospatial Concept of Operations

GEOSS

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GGIM

Global Geospatial Information Management

GIRA

Geospatial Interoperability Reference Architecture

GIS

Geographic Information System

GML

Geography Markup Language

GNSS

Global Navigation Satellite System

GSDI

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

GWG

Geospatial Intelligence Standards Working Group

HIFLD

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data

HLS

Homeland Security

HTTP

Hypertext transfer protocol

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

IBC

International Boundary Commissions

IBWC

International Boundary and Water Commission

INCITS

International Committee for Information Technology Standards

INSPIRE

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

IOOS

Integrated Ocean Observing System

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

IT

Information Technology

lidar

light detection and ranging

MCSD

Marine and Coastal Spatial Data

MPPN

Marine Planning Portal Network

NAIP

National Agriculture Imagery Program

NBG

National Boundaries Group

NCGMP

National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program

NDOP

National Digital Orthophoto Program

NGA

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NGAC

National Geospatial Advisory Committee

NGDA

National Geospatial Data Asset

NHD

National Hydrography Dataset

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPS

National Park Service

NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NVC

National Vegetation Classification

NWI

National Wetlands Inventory

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OMB

Office of Managment and Budget

PLSS

Public Land Survey System

RPA

Real Property Asset

RPADS

Real Property Asset Data Standard

SAOGI

Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information

SDI

Spatial Data Infrastructure

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SSWD

Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data

UHDWG

Users/Historical Data Working Group

UN-GGIM

United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Working Group

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USFS

U.S. Forest Service

USGEO

U.S. Group on Earth Observations

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

WFS

Web Feature Service

XML

Extensible Markup Language

 


 

Main Report

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F