Appendix D: Acronyms

A
ABOR	Abort
ACP	Allied Communications Publication
AIG	Architecture Integration Group (NIMA)
ALE	Automated Link Establishment
AMS	Aeronautical Migration System
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AOI	Area of Interest
API	Application Program Interface
AR	Architecture and Requirements Office (NIMA) [now SOS]
ARC	Equal Arc Second Raster Chart/Map
ARIDPCM	Adaptive Recursive Interpolated Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ARU	USIGS Architecture Division (NIMA) [now SOSE]
ASD	Assistant Secretary of Defense
ASD(C3I)	Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence
ATC	Air Target Chart; Automatic Target Classification
ATD	Automatic Target Detection
ATM	Asynchronous Transfer Mode
B
BER	Bit Error Rate
BIIF	Basic Image Interchange Format
BIMA	Basic Imagery and Mapping Annotations
BNPC	Bathymetric Navigation Planning Chart
BOCA	Business Object Component Architecture
BOK	Base of Knowledge
BOOTP	Bootstrap Protocol
BRI	Basic Rate Interface
BUFR	Binary Universal Format for Representation
C
C2	Command and Control
C3I	Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
C4I	Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
C4ISR	Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
CAD	Computer Aided Design/Drafting
CADRG	Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
CASE	Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CBR	Constant Bit Rate
CC	Common Client
CCITT	Comite Consultatif International de Telegraphique et Telephonique (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee) (now ITU-T)
CDE	Common Desktop Environment
CDL	Constraint Definition Language
CDM	Conceptual Data Model
CE	Circular Error
CFS	Center for Standards (DISA)
CGI	Computer Graphics Interface
CGM	Computer Graphics Metafile
CHAP	Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIA	Central Intelligence Agency
CIB	Controlled Image Base
CIL	Command Information Library
CINC	Commander in Chief
CIP	Common Imagery Processor
CMIP	Common Management Information Protocol
CNR	Combat Net Radio
COAS	Clinical Observations Access Service
COE	Common Operating Environment
COM	Common Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS	Commercial-off-the-Shelf
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CSA	Common Support Application
CSMA/CD	Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
CSPE	Client/Server Processing Environment
CTRS	Conventional Terrestrial Reference System
D
DAFIF	Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
DAMA	Demand Assigned Multiple Access
DARO	Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
DBDB	Digital Bathymetric Data Base
DBMS	Database Management System
DCAFE	Data Capture and Finishing Environment
DCE	Distributed Computing Environment
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DDDS	Defense Data Dictionary System
DE	Dissemination Element
DFLIP™	Digital Flight Information Publication
DGIWG	Digital Geographic Information Working Group
DIA	Defense Intelligence Agency
DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DIGEST	Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard
DII	Defense Information Infrastructure; Dynamic Invocation Interface
DIS	Draft International Standard
DISA	Defense Information Systems Agency
DISAC	Defense Information Systems Agency Circular
DISN	Defense Information System Network
DMTD	Digital Message Transfer Device
DNC™	Digital Nautical Chart
DNS	Domain Name Service
DNS	Domain Name System
DoC	United States Department of Commerce
DOC	Distributed Object Computing
DoD	United States Department of Defense
DoE	United States Department of Energy
DoI	United States Department of the Interior
DoJ	United States Department of Justice
DoT	United States Department of Transportation
DPDW	Digital Products Data Warehouse
DPPDB	Digital Point Positioning Data Base
DPS	Digital Production System
DSN	Defense Switched Network
DSOM	Distributed System Object Model
DSS1	Digital Subscriber Signaling System No. 1
DTED	Digital Terrain Elevation Data
DTOP™-MEDS	Digital Topographic Data - Mission Essential Data Set
DVOF	DMA Vertical Obstruction File
E
EAC	Echelons above Corps
EARS	Exploitation and Reporting Structure
EBU	European Broadcasting Union
ECDIS	Electronic Chart Display and Information System
EEI	External Environment Interface
EO	Electro-Optical
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
EPD	Equal Probability of Detection
EPS	Enhanced Processing Segment
ES	Extension Segment
F
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FACC	Feature and Attribute Coding Catalog
FAS	Feature Analysis Services
FDMA	Frequency Division Multiple Access
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FGS	Feature Generalization Services
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard
FPE	Front-end Processing Environment
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FTR	Federal Telecommunications Recommendation
FY	Fiscal Year
G
GAP	Gridded Airfield Photograph
GAS	Geospatial Annotation Services
GCTS	Geospatial Coordinate Transformation Services
GDAS	Geospatial Domain Access Services
GDS	Geospatial Display Services
GFLOPS	Giga (one billion) Floating Point Operations per Second
GFMS	Geospatial Feature Manipulation Services
GIAS	Geospatial and Imagery Access Services
GIES	Geospatial Information Extraction Services
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
GIP	Gridded Installation Photograph
GIS	Geographic Information System
GIXS	Geospatial and Imagery eXploitation Services
GOA	Generic Open Architecture
GOTS	Government Off-the-Shelf
GPC	Geospatial Production Cell
GPS	Global Positioning System
GRIB	Gridded Binary
GSMS	Geospatial Symbol Management Services
H
HAC	Harbor and Approach Chart
HCI	Human/Computer Interface
HDIF	Healthcare Data Interpretation Facility
HF	High Frequency
HL7	Health Level Seven
HSI	Hyperspectral Imagery
HTI	Human Technology Interface
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HYSAS	Hydrographic Source Assessment System
I
I&RTS	Integration and Runtime Specification
IAS	Information Access Services
IC	Intelligence Community
ICAM	Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing
ICD	Interface Control Document
IDEF0	Integration Definition for Function Modeling
IDEF1X	Integration Definition for Information Modeling
IDL	Interface Definition Language
IEC	Integrated Exploitation Capability; International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IES	Imagery Exploitation Services
IESS	Imagery Exploitation Support System
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IGC	Imagery & Geospatial Community
IGMS	Image Geometry Model Services
IHO	International Hydrographic Organization
IIOP	Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IISS	Integration Information Support System
IMGS	Image Map Generation Services
IMS	Imagery Manipulation Services
IP	Internet Protocol
IPC	Integrated Production Cell
IPCP	Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPL	Image Product Library
IPL	Image Product Library
IR	Infra-red
IS	International Standard
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISI	Information Services Interface
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISP	International Standardized Profile
ISR	Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
ISS	Image Synthesis Services
IT	Information Technology
ITU	International Telecommunications Union
ITU-R	International Telecommunications Union - Radiocommunication Sector
ITU-T	International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT)
IUS	Image Understanding Services
J
JDK	Java Development Kit
JFIF	JPEG File Interchange Format
JMTK	Joint Mapping Tool Kit
JNC	Jet Navigation Chart
JOG A/G	Joint Operations Graphic - Air/Ground
JOG R	Joint Operations Graphic - Radar
JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPUB	Joint Publication
JTA	Joint Technical Architecture
JTC1	Joint Technical Committee 1 (ISO/IEC)
JTF	Joint Task Force
K
KMP	Key Management Protocol
L
LAN	Local Area Network
LCF	Log Control Function
LCP	Link Control Protocol
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LD-CELP	Low-Delay Code Excited Linear Prediction
LDR	Low Data Rate
LE	Linear Error
LF	Low Frequency
LQM	Link Quality Monitoring
LSD	Local Slope Data
LUT	Look Up Table
LWD™	Littoral Warfare Data
M
MAA	Mission Area Application
MAC	Medium Access Control
MAF	Mobile Agent Facility (now called Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities)
MAS	Military Agency for Standardization
MAU	Medium-Access Unit
Mbits/s	Megabits per second
Mbps	Megabits per second
MC&G	Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy
MCG&I	Mapping, Charting, Geodesy, and Imagery
MDR	Medium Data Rate
MHz	Megahertz
MIL-HDBK	Military Handbook
MILSATCOM	Military Satellite Communications
MIL-STD	Military Standard
MINT	Multi-source Intelligence Toolkit
MLPP	Multi-Level Precedence and Preemption
MLS	Multilevel Security
MOA	Memorandum of Agreement
MOF	Meta Object Facility
MPEG	Motion Pictures Expert Group
MSA	Mission Specific Application
MSI	Multispectral Imagery
N
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCCB	NIMA Configuration Control Board
NCMP	NIMA Configuration Management Plan
NES	NIMA Exploitation System
NIC	Network Information Center
NIDR	Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
NIL	National Information Library
NIMA	National Imagery and Mapping Agency
NITF	National Imagery Transmission Format
NITFS	National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
NL	NIMA Library
NNI	Network-to-Network Interface
NNPP	NIMA NITFS Program Plan
NNSS	Navy Navigation Satellite System
NORAD	North American Aerospace Defense Command
NPC	NIMA Production Cell
NRO	National Reconnaissance Office
NSA	National Security Agency
NSIF	NATO Secondary Imagery Format
NTB	NITFS Technical Board
NTM	National Technical Means
O
OA&D	Object Analysis and Design
OA&DF	Object Analysis and Design Facility
ODBC	Open Data Base Connectivity
ODP	Open Distributed Processing
OGC	Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
OLE	Object Linking and Embedding
OLTP	On-Line Transaction Processing
OMA	Object Management Architecture
OMG	Object Management Group
OMT	Object Modeling Technique
ONC	Operational Navigation Chart
OOSE	Object-Oriented Software Engineering
ORB	Object Request Broker
OSD	Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSF	Open Software Foundation (now part of The Open Group)
OSI	Open System Interconnection
P
PAS	Publicly Available Specification
PASV	Passive
PDM	Product Data Management
PEO	Program Executive Officer
PIAE	Profile for Imagery Access Extensions
PICS	Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
PID	Program Implementation Document
PIDS	Patient Identification Service
PIKS	Programmer's Imaging Kernel System
POS	Persistent Object Service
POSIX	Portable Operating Systems Interface
POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
PPDB	Point Positioning Data Base
PRI	Primary Rate Interface
PSK	Phase Shift Keying
PTADB	Planning Terrain Analysis Data Base
R
R&D	Research and Development
RFC	Request for Comment
RFI	Request for Information
RFP	Request for Proposal
RM	Reference Model
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
RM-ODP	Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RPF	Raster Product Format
RTAD	Relocatable Target Assessment Data
S
SAR	Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCI	Sensitive Compartmented Information
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
SDE	Support Data Extension
SDNS	Secure Data Network System
SDTS	Spatial Data Transfer Standard
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SHADE	Shared Data Environment
SHF	Super High Frequency
SIDR	Secure Intelligence Data Repository
SIDS	Secondary Imagery Dissemination System
SIEM	System Information Exchange Matrix
SLF	Standard Linear Format
SMIF	Stream-based Model Interchange Format
SMPTE	Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOM	System Object Model
SOS	Systems Engineering & Integration Division (NIMA)
SOSE	Engineering Branch (NIMA)
SOW	Statement of Work
SP3	Security Protocol 3
SPIA	Standards Profile for Imagery Access
SPID	Standards Profile for Imagery Distribution
SPOT	Satellite pour l'Observation de la Terre
SQL	Structured Query Language
ST/T	Systems and Technology Directorate Technology Office (NIMA)
STANAG	Standardization Agreement
STOU	Store Unique
SW	Software
T
TACO2	Tactical Communications Protocol 2
TADIL	Tactical Digital Information Link
TAFIG	Technical Architecture Framework and Implementation Guidance
TAFIM	Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management
TBD	To Be Determined
TBR	To Be Resolved
TC	Technical Committee
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TDMA	Time Division Multiple Access
TED	Triteal Enterprise Desktop
TELNET	Telecommunications Protocol
TERCOM	Terrain Contour Matching
TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TIFF	Tagged Image File Format
TIN	Triangulated Irregular Network
TLM	Topographic Line Map
TMN	Telecommunications Management Network
TOD™	Tactical Ocean Data
TPC	Tactical Pilotage Chart
TRM	Technical Reference Model
TTADB	Tactical Terrain Analysis Data Base
U
UAF	USIGS Architecture Framework
UCDM	USIGS Conceptual Data Model (synonym for USIGS/CDM)
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UHF	Ultra High Frequency
UIP	USIGS Interoperability Profile
UK	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
UML	Unified Modeling Language
UOAD	USIGS Operational Architecture Description
UPS	Universal Polar Stereographic
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
US	United States
USD(A&T)	Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
USDA	United States Department of Agriculture
USGS	United States Geological Survey
USIGS	United States Imagery and Geospatial Information System
USIGS/CDM	United States Imagery and Geospatial Information System Conceptual Data Model
USIS	United States Imagery System
USMTF	United States Message Text Format
UTA	USIGS Technical Architecture
UTAP	USIGS Technical Architecture Profile
UTM	Universal Transverse Mercator
UVMap™	Urban Vector Smart Map
V
VFR	Visual Flight Rules
VHF	Very High Frequency
VISP	Video Imagery Standards Profile
VITD	VPF Interim Terrain Data
VLF	Very Low Frequency
VMap™	Vector Smart Map
VMap 0™	Vector Smart Map Level 0
VMap 1™	Vector Smart Map Level 1
VMap 2™	Vector Smart Map Level 2
VMF	Variable Message Format
VPF™	Vector Product Format
VPPDB	Video Point Positioning Data Base
VQ	Vector Quantization
VRF	Vector Relational Format
VSAT	Very Small Aperture Terminal
VTC	Video Teleconferencing
VVOD™	Vector Vertical Obstruction Data
W
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WGS	World Geodetic System
WMED	World Mean Elevation Data
WMM	World Magnetic Model
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WVS+	World Vector Shoreline Plus (synonym for WVSPLUS™)
WVSPLUS™	World Vector Shoreline Plus
X
XCMF	X/Open-based Common Management Facilities
XSM	X/Open System Management
Y
Y2K	Year 2000

For a more complete set of USIGS acronyms, see the USIGS Glossary [Ugloss98].