From Maps to Models: Augmenting the Nation's Geospatial Intelligence Capabilities (2016)
Chapter: Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations
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"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.
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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