GIS Abbreviations -- A-D

	This page:   A   B   C   D   Abbreviations:   A-D    E-H    I-L    M-P    Q-S    T-Z A A. Acre; Auto house or private garage A IN B Auto in basement AA Automobile Assn. AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration; American Automobile Assn. AACR Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2d. ed. AACCCM Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials AAES American Assn. of Engineering Societies AAG Assn. of American Geographers AAGS American Assn. for Geodetic Surveying AAG Assn. of American Geographers AAPG American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists AARLS Arkansas Assn. of Registered Land Surveyors AARS Asian Assn. on Remote Sensing AASG American Assn. of State Geologists AASP American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists AB Air base ABAG Assn. of Bay Area Governments (California) ABET Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. ABN American Bank Note Company ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics ABSM Alberta Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Abzw Abzweigstelle AC Aerospace Center; Air Corps; American Cartographer (journal) A.C. Antonio Castro A/C Aircraft ACA American Cartographic Assn.; American Conservation Assn.; Automovil Club Argentino; Aerial Cartographics of America (Firm) ACACC Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives cartographiques du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives ACAPS Automated Chart Production System (C&GS) ACC Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives; Academia de Ciencias de Cuba ACC Association canadienne de cartographie AC&C Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography (U.S.) ACCDTS Advisory Committee on Canadian Digital Toponymic Services AccuDEM High-accuracy DEM Accu-DRAPE High-accuracy DEM Draped Images ACD Aeronautical Charting Division (C&GS) ACDDS Advanced Cartographic Data Digitizing System ACE Advanced Cartographic Equipment; Advanced Cartographic Environment (PCI Carto Inc.) ACEC American Consulting Engineers Council ACG Association canadienne des geographes; Address Coding Guides ACI Assn. Cartographique Internationale = International Cartographic Assn. ACIC Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.); Automated Cartographic Information Center (Univ. of Minnesota Library) ACIU Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain) ACLS Assn. of Canadian Lands Surveyors ACM Assn. for Computing Machinery ACMGIS Assn. for Computing Machinery Geographic Information Systems ACML Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries ACMLA Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives ACMS Automated Census Mapping System ACM-  SIGGRAPH Assn. for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics ACOE Army Corps of Engineers (U.S.) ACRES Australian Centre for Remote Sensing ACRS Asian Conference on Remote Sensing ACS Advanced Cartographic Systems; Agricultural Cooperative Service; Automated Cartographic Systems; Automatic chemical sprinklers; Attitude Control Subsystem (Landsat); American Community Survey (USBC) ACSAD Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands ACSC Automobile Club of Southern California ACSM American Congress on Surveying and Mapping ACSTTO Assn. of Certified Survey Technicians and Technologists of Ontario ACT Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie (Luxembourg); Australian Capital Territory AD Administrative Division (USGS); Aeronautical data A/D Analog to digital ADAC Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club ADAR Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration (Positive Systems, Inc.) ADC Alexandria Drafting Company; American Digital Cartography Inc ADDA American Design Drafting Assn. ADE AutoCAD Data Extension ADEO Advanced Earth Observing Satellite ADEPT Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype ADF Application Development Facility (GeoVision Corp.) ADFG Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game ADI Areas of Dominent Influence (USBC TIGER) ADK Arealdatakontoret (Denmark) ADL Alexandria Digital Library Adm. Admiral; Admiralty ADM1 First-order administrative division ADM2 Second-order administrative division ADNR Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources ADOT Arizona Dept. of Transportation ADOTPF Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities ADP Automated data processing ADPDP Alaska Division of Policy Development and Planning ADR Aerial Data Reduction Associates Inc. ADRG ARC-digitized raster graphics (USDMA) ADRGs Arc digitized raster graphics(USDMA) ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Ad. St. Aldolf Stieler ADT Advanced Data Technologies, Inc.; Abstract Data Type AdV Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Lander der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ADW Agricultural drainage well ADWR Arizona Dept. of Water Resources A/E Architectural/engineering A&E Architect and Engineering AEC Architecture, engineering and construction AED Analysis and Evaluation Div. AEF Alliance for Environmental Education AEG Association of Engineering Geologists AEI Aerial Exposure Index AEIDC Arctic Environmental Information Data Center AEM Atmospheric Explorer Mission AERS Advanced Earth Resources Satellite AES Analysis and Evaluation Staff AESE Association of Earth Science Editors Aest. Aestuarium = Estuary AFA American Forestry Assn.; Automatic fire alarm AFB Air Force base; Aerial FotoBank (Firm) AFCEA Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn. AFFRC Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center (Japan) AFI American Forest Inst. AfRL Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Germany) AFS Air Force station AFT Ambiguity function technique AG Attorney General AGC Assn. Geologique du Canada; Arkansas Geological Commission AGCHO Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office AGCO Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Office AGDS Automated Graphics Digitizing System AGI American Geological Inst.; Assn. for Geographic Information (London); Analytical Graphics, Inc. AGIC Alabama Geographic Information Council; Arizona Geographic Information Council AGIS Automated Geographic Information System AgRI-  STARS Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote Sensing AGS American Geographical Society; Alberta Geological Survey AGSO Australian Geological Survey Organisation AGSS American Geographical and Statistical Society AGU American Geophysical Union AHAP Alaska High-altitude Aerial Photography (program) AHCPR U.S. Agency for Health Care and Policy Research AHDAS Adaptable Hydrologic Data Acquisition System AHRS Attitude and Heading Reference System AHS Automated Highway System AI Artificial intelligence; Appraisal Inst. AIA American Inst. of Architects AI/ANA American Indian/Alaska Native Area AIC Australian Institute of Cartographers AICP American Inst. of Certified Planners AID Agency for International Development; Aeronautical information data AIH American Inst. of Hydrology AILESP American Indian Lands Environmental Support Project AIMS Airborne Integrated Mapping System; Automated Investigation Measurement System (Nikon) AIPG American Inst. of Professional Geologists AIPP Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection AIR American Indian reservation AIREA American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers AIRS Atmospheric infrared sounder AISH Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques = International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences AK Alaska AL Alabama Ala. Alabama ALA American Library Assn. ALAE Atmospheric LymanAlpha Emissions ALARS Alaska Land and Resources System ALI Advanced Land Imager ALIS Automated Land Information System (TVA) ALMRS Automated Land and Mineral Record System (US BLM) ALOHA Aerial Locations of hazardous Atmospheres (model) ALP Automated Lands Project Alt. Altitude ALTA American Land Title Assn. ALTM Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper (Optech) ALTMS Airborne Laser Topographic Mapping System AM Automated Mapping AMA Associacion Mexicana Automovilistica AMAD Airborne Missions and Applications Division (NASA-Ames Research Center) AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program AMC Assn. Mineralogique du Canada; Australian Map Circle Inc. AME Aero-Metric Engineering Inc. AM/FM Automated mapping/facilities management AMG Australian Map Grid AMI Applied Mapping Inc. AMIE Airglow Measurements of Infrared Measurements Emissions AMIS Aviation Management Information System AMISAR Active Microwave ImagerSynthetic Aperture Radar AML ARC Macro Language AMPS Automatic Mapping and Planning System AMS Army Map Service; American Meteorological Society; Attitude Measurement Sensor; Automated Mapping System AMSD Adjusted Mapping Support Data AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer An. Anno = year A.N.A. Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica (Mexico) ANARE Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ANTGS Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System ANMS Automated Notice to Mariners System ANOVA Analyses of variance ANRC Alaska Native Regional Corp. ANSI American National Standards Inst. ANV Alaska Native village ANVSA Alaska Native village statistical area ANWR Alaska National Wildlife Refuge ANZLIC Australia New Zealand Land Information Council AO Area of Operations AOA Allen Osborne Associates, Inc. AODC Australian Oceanographic Data Centre AOIPS Atmospheric and Oceanographic Image Processing System AOL America On Line AOLS Assn. of Ontario Land Surveyors AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory AOO American Oceanographic Organization AOSS Ashtech Office Suite for Survey AP Analytical Plotter APA American Planning Assn. APCA Air Pollution Control Assn. APCM Aerial Photography Contract Management System APD Automated Plat Design (ConneXt, Inc.) A.P.D.R. Avec privilege du Roi = By license of the King APEGGA Assn. of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta APFO Aerial Photography Field Office (USDA) API American Petroleum Inst.; Application programming interface APIS Aerial Photography Information System APMI Aerial Photography Micrographic Index System (USGS) Apo. Apogee APPSR Aerial Photography Progress Summary Report APQF Aerial Photography Quad File APR Airborne Profile Recorder APSR Aerial Photography Summary Record APSRS Aerial Photography Summary Record System (USGS) APT Automatic picture transmission; Area proportional to APTS Aerial Profiling of Terrain System APWA American Public Works Assn. APWWA American Public Water Works Assn. AR Arkansas ARA Address Register Area; Algemeen Rijksarchief (Netherlands) ARAMCO Arabian American Oil Company Arb. Arbeiter ARC Ames Research Center (NASA); Appalachian Regional Commission ARCC American Rivers Conservation Council ArcFM Arc Facilities Manager (ESRI) Arch. Architect; Architecture ARG American Resources Group ARIS Alabama Resource Information System; Arizona Resources Information System Ark. Arkansas ARM Administracion de Recursos Minerales (Panama); Airborne Remote Mapping ARMIS Arkansas Resource Management Information System Arr. Arrondissement ARRSTC Asian Regional Remote Sensing Training Centre ARS Agricultural Research Service ARSC Australian Remote Sensing Conference ARSP Applied Remote Sensing Program (Univ. of Arizona) Artil. Artillery ARZ AutoRestricted Zone AS Anti-spoofing; Area source; automatic sprinklers A-S Anti-spoofing ASA American Standards Assn. ASAP Advanced Scientific Array Processor; Agricultural Sciences Advisory Panel ASB. CL. Asbestos-covered frame building ASC American Society of Cartographers ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers ASCF Ames Satellite Communications Facility ASCIE American Standard Code for Information Exchange ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCLA Assn. of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ALA) ASCP America Society of Consulting Planners ASCS Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (USDA) ASDD Australian Spatial Data Directory ASDI Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure ASEE American Society for Engineering Education ASFE Assn. of Soil and Foundation Engineers ASFPM Assn. of State Floodplain Managers ASGA Assn. des Services Geologiques Africains ASHTD American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials ASI Analytical Surveys, Inc. ASLA American Society of Landscape Architects ASLO American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ASMC Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference ASO Australian Survey Office ASP American Society of Photogrammetry; Application service provider ASPG American Society for Professional Geographers ASPLS Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors; Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors ASPRS American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ASPS Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors ASRL Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory Ass. Association Assn. Association AST Atlantic Standard Time; Automated Summary Tables ASTM American Society for Testing Materials AT Aero-Triangulation ATC Air Target Chart; Advance Technology Corp. ATID Attribute ID ATIS Roads Arizona Transportation Information System (ADOT) ATKIS Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informationssystem ATM Adaptive triangular mesh ATR1 Automatic Target Recognition module (Leica) ATS Advanced Technology Satellite; Applications Technology Satellite; Automated Technical Systems (Firm) AU Astronomical unit AURISA Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Assn. AUSDEC Australasian Data Exchange Centre AUSLIG Australian Surveying and Land Information Group Av. Avenue AV Audio-visual AVCA Audio-visual and Cartographic Archives Div., National Archives of Canada Ave. Avenue AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVI Audio Visual Interleave AVIRIS Advanced Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer AVL Automatic Vehicle Location AVNIR Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer AVO Audio/visual object; Amplitude Versus Offset AVRI Arizona Vegetation Resource Inventory AVS Application Visualization System (Visual Systems, Inc.) AWAR Area weighted average resolution AWG Association for Women Geoscientists AWIPS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System AWMC Ancient World Mapping Center AWMSAS ArcView Marine Spill Analysis System AWRA American Water Resources Assn. AWS Air Weather Service AWWA American Water Works Assn. AZ Arizona A.Z. Alexander Zakreski AzMAP Arizona Mapping Advisory Council Back To Top B B Bulletin B&L Boggs and Lewis BA Booksellers Assn. of Great Britain & Ireland BAAMA Bay Area Automated Mapping Assn. BADGER Bay Area Digital GeoResource BAKOSUR-  TANAL Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Indonesia) = National Coordination Agency for Surveying and Mapping (Indonesia) Banobras Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos (Mexico) BAOR British Army of the Rhine BARCIS BARCode Information System BARD San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database BARP Bundesamt fur Raumplanung (Switzerland) BART Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California) BAS British Antarctic Survey BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Bay Area Shared Information Consortium BASINS Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Systems (USEPA) BB Band-by-band; Blattbereich BBS Bulletin board system BC British Columbia; Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.) BCDC Bay Conservation and Development Commission BCGS Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines) BCH Beach BCSS Battlefield Command Support System (Australian Army) BDET Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd. BDG Bridge Bdy Boundary BE Brick enclosed elevator BEA Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates B.E.F. British Expeditionary Force BEG Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas) BEICIP Bureau d'Etudes Industrielles et de Cooperation de l'Institut Francais du Petrole bes. besonders Betrbf Betriebsbahnhof BETS Brunson Electronic Triangulation System BEV Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria) BfGR Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Germany) BfLR Bundesanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumentwicklung (Germany) BG Block group BGC Business Geographics Conference BGHT Bight BGN Board on Geographic Names (U.S.) BGS British Geological Survey Bgw. Bergwerk = mine Bhf. Bahnhof = Railway station BHS Boston Harbor Software, Inc. BI Big Idea (NIMA); Business intelligence BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.) BICI Book item contribution identifier BIL Band Interleaved by Line BIOMAPS Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources BIOTROP Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Indonesia) BIP Band Interleaved by Pixel Bl. Boulevard BLDG Building BLG Binary line generalization BLIS Brownfields Location Information System (Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce) BLM Bureau of Land Management (U.S.) BLOB Binary large object BLPU Basic land and property unit BLS Bahamas Lands and Surveys Dept. BLT Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland) BLVA Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt Blvd. Boulevard BM Bench mark; Bureau of Mines BMA Botswana Ministry of Agriculture BMAC Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex BMDO Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (U.S.) BMG Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (Philippines) .BMP Bitmapped image format (Microsoft Corp.) BMR Bureau of Mineral Resources (Australia, Papua New Guinea) BMW Barclay Mapworks, Inc. BN Biblioth`eque Nationale BNA Block numbering area BND Stream bend BNDT Base nationale de donnees topographiques (Canada) BNPC Bathymetric navigation planning chart BNPD Bivariate Normal Probability Density BOA Building omission area BOC Bureau of the Census BOFRS Books and Open-File Report Section (USGS) BOLS BADGER On-line Service BOM Bureau of Mines BOP Bureau of Printing BOR Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.) BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study BORPELS Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (Calif.) BOSS Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on BOTUS Best of the U.S. (GeoEye) BP Boundary marker (USDMA) BPA Bonneville Power Administration BPI Bits per Inch BPPT Badan Pembinaan dan Penerapan Teknologi (Indonesia) BPR Bureau of Public Roads BPS Bits per Second BR Bureau of Reclamation br. breit Br. Breite Brck. Brucke = bridge BRFD Bidirectional reflectance distribution function BRICMICS British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems BRGM Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France) BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service BS Bureau of Statistics (Japan) BSC Boston Survey Consultants BSE Base flood elevation BSNH Headwater basin BSQ Band Sequential BSU Base Spatial Unit BT Base Topo BTA Basic Trading Areas (FCC) BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics BUIS Beihai Urban Information Center BUPMIS Beihai Urban Planning Management Information System BUPNIS Beijing Underground-Network Information System BUTE Butte BVG Berliner Verkehrs Gesellschaft BVU Brightness Value Unit B/W Black and white BWC Bandwidth Compression BWE Bandwidth Expansion Back To Top C C Cartography; Celsius (degrees) ca. Circa CA California; Cartographic and architectural C/A Coarse-Acquisition (code) CAA Civil Aeronautics Administration (U.S.); Civil Aviation Authority (Great Britain) CAAD Cartographic and Architectural Archives Div., National Archives of Canada CAC Center for Advanced Computation (Univ. of Illinois); Compressed Aeronautical Chart (U.S. government) CACS Canadian Active Control System CAD Computer-aided drafting; Computer assisted design CADD Computer-aided design and drafting CADMAP Computer-aided drafting, mapping, and photogrammetry CADRG Compressed ADRG CAFF Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna CAFM Computer-aided facility management CAG Canadian Association of Geographers CaGIS Cartography and Geographic Information Science (journal)); Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (journal) CAGIS Cartography and Geographic Information Society Cal. California Calif. California CALMIT Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln) CALS Connecticut Assn. of Land Surveyors; Computer-aided acquisition and logistic support; Computer Assisted Land Survey System (SPDK) CALTRANS California Dept. of Transportation CAM Computer aided mapping CAMA Computer-aided mass appraisal system (Montana) CAMEO Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations System (U.S.) CAMFER Center for the Assessment & Monitoring of Forest & Environmental Resources (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) CanSIS Canadian Soil Information System CANSPACE Canadian Space Geodesy Forum CAP Cooperative Agreements Program (FGDC) CAPDU Canadian Assn. of Public Data Users CAR Curriculum, Accreditation and Registration Committee (ACSM); Central African Republic CARES Center for Agricultural, Resource, and Environmental Systems (Univ. of Missouri) CARS Computer-Assisted Reproduction; Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (Oklahoma State Univ.) CASA Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Univ. College, London) CASE Computer-Aided Software Engineering CaSIL California Spatial Information Library CASS Coding and Accuracy Support System (USPS) CAT Computer Assisted Thermography CATS Consequences Assessment Tool Set (FEMA) CAVA Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Div. = Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles (DACA), National Archives of Canada CAZRI Central Arid Zone Research Institute CB Column builder C.B. Hollow concrete or cement block construction CBD Central business district CBEP Community-Based Environmental Protection (USEPA program) CBET Concrete block enclosed elevator CBI China Burma India Theatre of Operations (WW II) CBL Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Suriname); Calibration base line cbm Kubikmeter (cubic meter) CBN Cooperative Base Network CBP Chesapeake Bay Project C. BR Concrete, lime, cinder or cement brick CBS Community Base Station CBWE Corn Blight Watch Experiment CC Cartographic Catalog CCA Canadian Cartographic Assn. CCAP Competative Cooperative Agreements Program (U.S.) CCBCCM Canadian Committee for the Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials CCC Canadian Committee on Cataloging CCCELS California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors CCD Census county division; Computer Center Div. (USGS); Charged couple device; Charged-coupled device; Charge-coupled device CCELC Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification CCGE Canadian Council on Geographic Education CCGM Center for Computing Graphics (Delft Univ. of Technology) CCIG Centre canadien d'information sur la geoscience CCID Chain component ID CCISA Congress of Cartographic Information Specialist Associations CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee CCLS Canadian Council of Land Surveyors CCM Canada Centre for Mapping CCNS4 Computer Controlled Navigation System (E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc.) CCRS Canada Centre for Remote Sensing CCT Computer Compatible Tape; Centro de Ciencia Tropical CD Compact disc; Conservation Div. (USGS); Committee Draft (ISO) CDA Colorado Dept. of Agriculture CDC California Dept. of Conservation; Control Data Corporation CD-CINC CD-ROM Consistent Interface Committee (U.S.) CDED Canadian Digital Elevation Data CDF Cumulative distribution function; California Dept. of Forestry (and Fire Protection) CDFG California Dept. of Fish and Game CDH Communications and data handling CDi Compact Disk interactive CDIS Coordinated Design and Information System CDMG California Div. of Mines and Geology CDN Coordinates, definitions and notations CDOW Colorado Division of Wildlife CDOWG CD-ROM Data Origination Working Group (U.S.) CDP Cartographer Development Program; Census designated place; Colorado Division of Planning .CDR CorelDraw format CD-R Compact disk-recordable CD-ROM Compact disk-read only memory CDRS Collaborative Digital Reference Service CDS Catalogue of Data Sources CDT Computer display terminal; Central Daylight Time; Constrained Delaunay triangulation CDTED Compressed digital terrain elevation data CDV Cartographic data visualizer CD-W Compact disk-- re-writable CDWR California Dept. of Water Resources CE Corps of Engineers C.E. Civil Engineer CEAL Centro Editor de America Latina CEAO County Engineers Association of Ohio CEBAF Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility CECO Consulting Engineers Council of Ohio CECSVB Comit pour l'Etablissement de la Carte des Sols et de la Vegetation de la Belgique CECW Consulting Engineers Council of Washington CEDAC Comprehensive Economic Data Atlas of China CEDARE Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe CEDD Committee on the Exchange of Digital Data CEE Comite Estatal de Estadisticas (Cuba) CEGET Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropical (Bordeaux) CELSOC Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California Cem. Cemetery CEMA Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Assn. CEMAR Centro de Estudos do Mar CEN Comite europeen de normalization electronique CENREN Centro de Recursos Naturales (El Salvador) CENTA Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (El Salvador) CENTAUR Civil Engineering Technologies for Automatic Roadmaking (DSNP) CEO European Centre for Earth Observation CEONet Canadian Earth Observation Network CEP Celestial Ephemeris Pole CERCLIS Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (US EPA) CERCO Comite Europeen de Responsibles de la Cartographie Officielle CERD Catalog of Environmental Resource Data CERES California Environmental Resource Evaluation System CERCG Centre d'Etudes et de Realisations Cartographiques Geographiques (France) CERR Centre d'Ecologie des Ressources Renouvelables (France) CES Committee on Earth Sciences CET Commission on Education and Training (IGA) CETENAL Comision de Estudios del Territorio Nacional (Mexico) CEU Continuing education unit CFCC Census Feature Class Code CFF Cartographic Feature File CFUA Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association C.G. Coast Guard CGA Color Graphics Adaptor CGC Commission geologique du Canada CGDB Central Geographic Data Base CGDI Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure CGI Computer Graphics Interface; Common gateway interface; Center for Geographic Information CGIC Canadian Geoscience Information Centre CGIS Center for GIS (Qatar) .CGM Computer graphics metafile CGMW Commission for the Geological Map of the World CGNHS Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey CGPM Conference General des Poids et Mesures C&GS Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Commercial & Government Systems (Kodak) CGS Civil GPS Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Colorado Geological Survey CGSB Canadian General Standards Board CGSIC Civil GPS Service Interface Committee CGSICO Civil GPS Service Interface Committee CGU Canadian Geophysical Union CGW Computer Graphics World (journal) CH Chief Hydrologist; Church; Chapel CHEEC Center for the Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (Univ. of Iowa) CHEST Combined Higher Education Software Team (UK) CHGIS China Historical Geographic Information System (Harvard University) CHIA Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Assessment CHNM Marine channel CHS Canadian Hydrographic Service CI Compass and inclinometer CIA Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) CIAF Centro de Investigaciones en Percepcion Remota CIAS CD-ROM Index Architecture Specification Working Group (U.S.) CIACER Centro de Investigacion y Aplicacion de Sensores Remotos (Bolivia) CIB Controlled image base CIBESA Cartografica Iberica S.A. CICAEDAS Committee Investigating Cartographic Entity, Definitions, and Standards CIDAMM Centro de Informacion y Documentacion del Area Metropolitana de Madrid CIE Iompair Eireann Coras; Classified image editor CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network CIG Canadian Inst. of Geomatics; Climate Interest Group; Centro de Investigaciones Geotecnicas (El Salvador) CIGF Centre d'Information Geographique et Fonci`ere Ministre de l'Energie et des Ressources, Quebec) CIGNET Cooperative International GPS Network CIKM Conference on Information Knowledge Management CIM Collection insertion map; Council on Information Management (Virginia) CIMIS California Irrigation Management Information System CINDI Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (USGS) CIO Central Imagery Office (U.S.) CIP Contour Interpolation Program; Canadian Institute of Planners CIR Color infrared CIRSS California Integrated Remote Sensing System CIS Canadian Inst. of Surveying; Color Imaging Systems (Barneyscan Corp.) CISD Cook Islands Dept. of Survey CISIG Conservational International GIS CISM Canadian Inst. of Surveying and Mapping CIST Centre d'information sur les sciences de la Terre (Canada) CITYG City Graphic CIU Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain) CK-PL Check plotter CLD Center line data CLDB Common Land Data Base CLDS Canada Land Data System(s) CLI Canada Land Inventory CLID Class identifier CLIRSEN Remote Sensing Center (Ecuador) Clk. Clerk CLL Corrected line length CLOMA Confidential letters of map amendment CLS Canada Lands Surveyor CLSA California Land Surveyors Assn. CLSR Canada Lands Surveys Records CLUMP Canada Land Use Monitoring Program cm Centimeter CM Cartographic material; Configuration management CMA Census Metropolitan Area (Statistics Canada); Central Mapping Agency (New South Wales) CMAS Circular Mean Accuracy Standard CMCC California Mapping Coordinating Committee CMD Current meter digitizer; Command CMEDS Comprehensive Mapping and Engineering Data System (LES) CMI Corvallis Microtechnology Inc. CMIB Controlled multispectral image base CMO Canada Map Office CMOTS Cartographic Material Order and Tracking System (USGS) CMP Coastal Mapping Program; Camp CMS California Map Society; Clay Minerals Society CMSA Consolidated metropolitan statistical area CMSDU Commission on Map Use and Spatial Data Use (ICA) CMSM Committee on Marine Surveying and Mapping CMT Corvallis Microtechnology Inc. C&MT Communication & Measurement Technologies Ltd. CMYK Cyan-magenta-yellow-black CNA Comiss~ao Nacional do Ambiente (Portugal) CNIDR Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (USA) CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France) CNEXO Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Oceans (France) CNFL Confluence CNI Coalition for Networked Information CNIG Centro Nacional de Informac~ao Geografica = Portuguese National Center for Geographic Information CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (Italy); Canadian National Railway CNRA Commission on National and Regional Atlases (ICA) CNRG Centre National de Recherches Geomorphologiques (Belgium) CNROA Centro Nacional de Reconhecimento e Ordenamento Agrario (Portugal) CNRS Centre National de Recherches Scientifique (France) CNRST Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (Burkina Faso) CNSTAT Committee on National Statistics (U.S.) Co. Company; County CO Cartometric operations; Colorado COBOL Common Business Oriented Language COBRIG Council of British Geography COE Corps of Engineers COEB Coastal and Estuarine Oceanography Branch (US NOS) COFPAES Committee on the Federal Procurement of Architect and Engineer Services COFRS Chinese Operational Earth Resources Satellite COG Council of Governments COGO Coordinate geometry C.O.I. Office of Coordinator of Information (U.S.) col. Color; colored Col. Colonel; Colorado COL Agricultural colony COLD Computer Output to Laser (optical) Disc Com. Committee; Commission; Commodore COM Component Object Model (Microsoft) COMAP Continuous area pattern mapping Comdg. Commanding COMIS Cartographic Operations Management Information System COMPAS Coastal Ocean Management, Planning and AssessmentSystem COMSAT Communications Satellite (corp.) CONC. Concrete or reinforced concrete construction Cong. Congress Conn. Connecticut CONRIM Committee on Natural Resource Information Management(Alaska) CONUS Continental United States COP/BOP City of Portland Bureau of Planning CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORC Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (OCLC) Corp. Corporal; Corporation CORS Continuously operated reference station(s); Continuously operating GPS reference stations CORSE Conference on Remote Sensing Education COS Central Office of Statistics (Malta) COSMIC Computer Software Management and Information Center COSML Committee on Southern Map Libraries COSPAR Committee on Space Research COTS Commercial-off-the-shelf COVIS Commonwealth of Virginia Information Systems CP Cartographic Perspectives (journal); color printer CPFS Colorado Plateau Field Station (USGS) CPH Cartographic Publishing House (China) CPID Composite ID CPLAR Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (South Africa) CPLC Court of Private Land Claims CPS Characters per second; Contour plotting system; Cartographic production system CPU Central processing unit CR Central Region; Coordinate reader CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (U.S) CRAG Columbia Region Association of Governments CRAIGES Cartographic Reproduction and Interactive Graphic Editing System CRBT Centre de Recherches Biologiques Tropicales (Algeria) CRESP Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (U.S.) CRG Centre de Recherche en Geomatique (Universite Laval) CRIB Computerized Resources Information Bank CRISTA Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere