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AD1 - AD5 |
Hierarchical Administrative Levels: AD1 = Country, AD2 = Province, etc. |
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ADC |
American Digital Cartography |
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AGI |
American Geological Institute |
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AGLW |
FAO Agriculture Land and Water Division |
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ALCOM |
FAO Aquaculture for Local Community Development Programme |
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ALLM |
ALLM GeoData Global Gazetteer Product |
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as |
Arc Seconds, a spherical unit of measure where: 30as = 1 km, 3as = 90 m, 1as = 30 m |
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AWRD |
FAO-FIRI's African Water Resources GIS Interface and Database |
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BuCen |
US Bureau of Census |
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CD-ROM |
Compact Disk-Read Only Memory |
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CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
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CGBD |
Core Global Databases |
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CGDB-TF |
UN Geographic Information Working Group's Core Geo Database Task Force |
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CIA |
US Central Intelligence Agency |
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CIESIN |
Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, USA |
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CSR |
Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Unit of the WHO |
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DCW |
Digital Chart of the World, 1st - 2nd Editions of current NGA's VMap0 standard |
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DD |
Decimal Degrees, the effective "null" projection for digital spatial data |
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DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
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DMA |
US Defense Mapping Agency, acronym superceded by NIMA, and then NGA |
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DTED |
NGA's Digital Terrain Elevation Data at various raster postings |
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EarthSat |
Earth Satellite Corporation |
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EC |
European Commission |
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ECW |
Earth Resource Mapping’s "Enhanced Compression Wavelet" format for raster imagery |
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EDC |
US Geological Survey's EROS Data Center |
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EIP |
Evidence and Information for Policy Unit of the WHO |
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ESAD |
NASA's Earth Science Applications Directorate |
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ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute |
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ETopo2 |
An 2 minute Elevation Topographic DEM including bathymetry |
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EU |
European Union |
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EULA |
End User License Agreement |
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EuropaTech |
Europa Technologies 1:1 million Global Insight and Discovery Products |
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FAO |
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations |
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FGGD |
FAO-SRDN: FIVIMS Global GIS Database |
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FIRI |
FAO Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service Division |
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FIVIMS |
FAO’s pending Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems |
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FOIA |
US Freedom of Information Act |
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GeoCover-LC |
EarthSat's Land Cover database based on Orthorectified LandSat Imagery |
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GeoNetwork |
FAO's Spatial Data Network Portal |
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GIS |
Geographic Information Systems |
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GIWA |
Global International Water Assessment watershed delineation |
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GLOBE |
NOAA\CEOS global 30as DEM containing min, max, and mean elevation grids |
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GNS/GEOnet |
NGA's Geographic Names Server Gazetteer of Named Locations |
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GPWv3 |
CIESIN's Version 3 of Global Population of the World, 2.5 minutes (4.5 km) |
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GRID |
UNEP’s Global Resource Information Database Centers |
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GSDI |
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure clearing-house for SDI |
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GSHHS |
NOAA's Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database |
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GTopo30 |
USGS\UNEP Global Topographic 30 arc second DEM database, nominal 1 km postings |
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H1k |
Short Hand for the HYDRO1k data reference below |
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HYDRO1k |
Global Hydrological 1 kilometer database of hydrologically filled DEMs, "river" routing or flow, and watershed networks based on the GTopo30 baseline DEM. |
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IBTG |
UNGIWG’s International Boundaries Task Group |
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IGBP |
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
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IHO |
International Hydrographic Organization, Standards for Ocean Water Bodies based on the IHO’s International Hydrographic Bureau |
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ISCGM |
International Steering Committee for Global Mapping |
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ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
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JPL |
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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JRC |
The EC/EU's Joint Research Centre |
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K |
one thousand |
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LandScan |
US Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 1 km Population Density Databases |
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LOE |
Level of Effort |
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M |
one million |
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MADE |
Multipurpose land cover databases |
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MGLD |
MSSL Global Lakes Database |
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MODIS-ASTER |
Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer sensor on Terra satellite |
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MrSID |
LizardTech's commercial compression format for spatial imagery |
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MSSL |
Mullard Space Science Laboratory |
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NASA |
U.S. National Aeronautical and Space Administration |
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NGA |
US National GeoSpatial-Intelligence Agency, formally NIMA and DMA |
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NGDC |
NOAA's National Geo-Physical Data Center |
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NIMA |
US National Imagery and Mapping Agency, acronym superceded by NGA |
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NMA |
National Mapping Authorities |
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NOAA |
US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
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ONC |
NOAA's 1:1 000 000 Operational Navigation Charts, these charts are the cartographic baseline for DCW/VMap0 spatial data libraries |
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ORNL |
US Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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OrthoTM |
Orthorectified or flattened imagery based on the Universal Transverse Mercator projection system using the WGS84 standard datum and spheroid |
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PAIA |
FAO's Priority Areas for Interdisciplinary Action |
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PMPG |
FAO-SRDN Poverty Mapping Project Group |
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PTES |
Pfafstetter Topological Encoding Standard, a 22 to 5 digit encoding scheme for spatially based continental hydrographic data |
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QID |
UNCS's 1:1, 1:5 and 1:10 million scale Quick Impact Database Libraries |
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RGB |
Common Red:Green:Blue graphic format, used here to denote 3 spectral bands of satellite imagery forced into this format |
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RWDBII-Sv1.1 |
Relational World Data Bank II 1:3 million Database in Shapefile format v1.1 |
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SDI |
Spatial Data Infrastructure |
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SDRN |
FAO Environment and Natural Resources Service Sustainable Development Department |
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SRTM |
NASA/NGA's Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, capturing 1arc second DEM |
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SSN-TF |
FAO's Spatial Standards and Norm Task Force |
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STD or SDI |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases or Infections |
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SWB |
Surface Water Bodies |
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UN |
United Nations |
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UNCS |
United Nations Cartographic Section |
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UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
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UNGIWG |
United Nations Geographic Information Working Group |
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UNHCR |
United Nations High Commission for Refugees |
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URL |
Universal Resource Locator for the identification of specific Web sites |
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USAID |
US Agency for International Development |
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USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
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UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator projection and coordinate system |
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VMap |
NGA's Vector Smart Map standard for various scales of vector data |
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VPF |
NGA's Vector Product Format for the encoding of VMap data libraries |
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WCMC |
World Conservation Monitoring Centre |
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WDBII |
2nd Edition of the CIA's 1:3 - 1:5 million scale World Data Bank 2, see RWDBII-Sv1.1 |
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WDPA |
World Database of Parks and Protected Areas |
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WGS |
World Geodetic Standard, 1984 standard datum and spheroid |
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WHO |
UN World Health Organization |
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WRI |
World Resources Institute |
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WVS+ |
2nd and 3rd Editions of NGA’s 1:250 000 World Vector Shoreline Plus Data Library |
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WWF |
World Wide Fund for Nature |
