GIS for Housing and Urban Development (2003)
Chapter: Appendix D: Acronym List
Appendix D List of Acronyms
ArcIMS
Arc Internet Map Server
AHS
American Housing Survey
BLM
Bureau of Land Management
CDBG
Community Development Block Grant
COPC
Community Outreach Partnerships Centers
CORSIM
Cornell Simulation Model
DIME
Dual Independent Map Encoding
DOT
U.S. Department of Transportation
DRAM
Disaggregated Residential Allocation Model
DYNASIM
Dynamic Simulation of Income Model
E-gov
Electronic government
EGIS
Enterprise Geographic Information Systems
E-MAPS
Environmental Maps
EMPAL
Employment Allocation Model
EPA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
FHA
Federal Housing Assistance
GAO
General Accounting Office
GCDB
Geographic Coordinate Data Base
GIS
Geographic Information Systems
GML
Geographic Markup Language
GSDI
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
GPS
Global Positioning System
HBCU
Historically black colleges and universities
HMDA
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
HOME
Home Investment Partnerships Program
HOPWA
Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids
HRA
Housing Relocation Assistant
HUD
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUDS
Harvard Urban Development Simulation
ICT
Information and Communication Technology
ISTEA
Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act
I-Team
Implementation team
LIHTC
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
MATH
Micro-Analysis of Transfers to Households
MSAs
Metropolitan Statistical Areas
NBER
National Bureau of Economic Research
NKLA
Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles
NRC
National Research Council
NSDI
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
PD&R
Office of Policy Development and Research
POMS
Property Owners and Managers Survey
R-MAPS
Research maps
SDI
Spatial Data Infrastructure
SOCDS
State of the Cities Data systems
TAZ
Traffic Analysis Zone
TEA21
Transportation Equity Act
TIGER
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System
UCGIS
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
USDI
Urban Spatial Data Infrastructure
USGS
U.S. Geological Survey
