Appendix F. Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms

ACWI

Advisory Committee on Water Information

AIP

Architecture Implementation Pilot

AIXM

Aeronautical Information Exchange Model

BEA

Bureau of Economic Analysis

BGN

Board on Geographic Names

BIA

Bureau of Indian Affairs

BLM

Bureau of Land Management

BOEM

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

BQARP

Boundary Quality Assessment and Reconcilation Project

Census Bureau

U.S. Census Bureau

CG

FGDC Coordination Group

CIO

Chief Information Officer

CSDGM

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

DHS

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

DOD

U.S. Department of Defense

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DOI

U.S. Department of the Interior

ENOW

Economics: National Ocean Watch

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FSA

Farm Service Agency

FWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

GAO

U.S. Government Accountability Office

GCI

GEOSS Common Infrastructure

GENC

Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes

GEO

Group on Earth Observations

GeoCloud

Geospatial Cloud

GEOSS

Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GGIM

Global Geospatial Information Management

GIO

Geographic Information Officer

GIRA

Geospatial Interoperability Reference Architecture

GIS

Geographic Information System

GML

Geography Markup Language

GNSS

Global Navigation Satellite Systems

GPS

Global Positioning System

GSA

General Services Agency

GSDI

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

GSVS

Geoid Slope Validation Survey

HIFLD

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data

HSIP

Homeland Security Infrastructure Program

HUD

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

INCITS

International Committee for Information Technology Standards

INSPIRE

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

LMA

Lifecycle Maturity Assessment

MCSD

Marine and Coastal Spatial Data

MWG

Metadata Working Group

NAD

National Address Database

NAIP

National Agriculture Imagery Program

NBG

National Boundaries Group

NDOP

National Digital Orthoimagery Program

NGA

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NGAC

National Geospatial Advisory Committee

NGDA

National Geospatial Data Asset

NGS

National Geodetic Survey

NHD

National Hydrography Dataset

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPS

National Park Service

NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

NSGIC

National States Geographic Information Council

NSRS

National Spatial Reference System

NVC

National Vegetation Classification

NWI

National Wetlands Inventory

NWS

National Weather Service

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

OMB

Office of Managment and Budget

OWDI

Open Water Data Initiative

PLSS

Public Land Survey System

PM-ISE

Program Manager - Information Sharing Environment

POD

Project Open Data

SSWD

Subcommittee on Spatial Water Data

SWG

Standards Working Group

TIGER

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Reference System

UHDWG

Users/Historical Data Working Group

UN-GGIM

United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Working Group

USACE

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDOT

U.S. Department of Transportation

USFS

U.S. Forest Service

USGEO

U.S. Group on Earth Observations

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

XML

Extensible Markup Language

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Main Report

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F