Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence (2013)

Chapter: Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18265.

Appendix F

Acronyms and Abbreviations

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
Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18265.
UCGIS University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
URISA Urban and Regional Information Systems Society
USC University of Southern California
USGIF U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984
Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18265.
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Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2013. Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18265.
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