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Suggested Citation: "Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23650.

Appendix D

Acronyms and Abbreviations

CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
DoD U.S. Department of Defense
FLOPS floating-point operations per second
GIS geographic information system
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISIS Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
MCMC Markov chain Monte Carlo
MIMD multiple instruction, multiple data
MPI message-passing interface
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
SIMD single instruction, multiple data
SQL Structured Query Language
Suggested Citation: "Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23650.

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23650.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23650.
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