| 3D | three-dimensional |
| AAG | Association of American Geographers |
| ACM SIG | Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| ASPRS | American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| CaGIS | Cartography and Geographic Information Society |
| CASOS | Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems |
| COS | Computation and Organization Science |
| CRADA | Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| ESRI | Environmental Systems Research Institute |
| GEOINT | geospatial intelligence |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GNSS | global navigation satellite systems |
| GOCE | Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRSS | Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society |
| ICPSR | Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IGERT | Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship |
| IIF | International Institute of Forecasters |
| INS | inertial navigation system |
| INSNA | International Network for Social Network Analysis |
| ION | Institute of Navigation |
| ISPRS | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| LTFTT | Long Term Full Time Training |
| MOOC | Massive Open Online Course |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCGIA | National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
| NGA | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
| NIMA | National Imagery and Mapping Agency |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NWS | National Weather Service |
| SMART | Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation |
| SPIE | Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers |
| UARC | University Affiliated Research Center |