| ADCIRC |
ADvanced CIRCulation Model (http://www.adcirc.org/) |
| AHPS |
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/ahps/) |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BIO | Bedford Institute of Oceanography |
| CCT |
Center for Computation & Technology (at LSU http://www.cct.lsu.edu/) |
| CDL |
network Common Data form Language , see entry for NetCDF |
| CH3D |
Curvilinear-grid Hydrodynamics 3D Model (http://ch3d.coastal.ufl.edu) |
| COAMPS |
Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/coamps-web/web/home) |
| CO-OPS |
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (http://co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/) |
| CSI | Coastal Studies Institute (at LSU http://www.csi.lsu.edu/) |
| DBMS
|
Database management system |
| DCL |
Distributed Coastal Laboratory |
| ELCIRC |
Eulerian-Lagrangian CIRCulation Model (http://www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/CORIE/modeling/elcirc) |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee (http://www.fgdc.gov/) |
| GCMD |
Global Change Master Directory (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/) |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GML | Geography Markup Language |
| GoMOOS |
Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| IIF |
Image Interchange Format |
| IOOS |
integrated and sustained ocean observing system (http://ioos.noaa.gov/) |
| ITSC | Information Technology and Systems Center (at UAH http://www.itsc.uah.edu/) |
| KML |
Keyhole Markup Language - a way to place Google Earth data onto map images |
| LBS | Location Based Services or Location Services |
| LDM | LDM is Unidata's Local Data Manager - technology used to transport files from sensors to models |
| NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NetCDF |
network Common Data Form file format for binary files (http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/conventions.html) |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.noaa.gov) |
| NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| OCEANS IE |
OCEANS Interoperability Experiment |
| Formally approved as an OGC Interoperability Experiment in December 2006 -- engages data managers and scientists in the Ocean-Observing community to advance their understanding and application of various OGC specifications, solidify demonstrations for Ocean Science application areas, harden software implementations, and produce candidate OGC Best Practices documents that can be used to inform the broader ocean-observing community. |
| OGC | Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| OOS | Ocean Observing System |
| OOSTethys |
Provider-to-user data systems framework, using interoperable standards, enabling discovery and use of data. |
| OpenIOOS |
Open Integrated Ocean Observing System - a testbed for interoperability of oceanographic observing data |
| OWS | OGC Web Services |
| SAM |
SCOOP Application Manager |
| SCOOP |
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| Simple Object Access Protocol, a method invented
by Microsoft to use RPC over the internet via HTTP calls. SOAP is now
published as an W3C Note and implemented, among others, as part of the
Apache XML Project." SOAP is a protocol specification that defines a
uniform way of passing XML-encoded data. It also defines a way to
perform remote procedure calls (RPCs) using HTTP as the underlying
communication protocol. Development of SOAP is in the care of the W3C`s
XML Protocols Working Group. |
SOS
|
Sensor Observation Service |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
| SURA |
The Southeastern Universities Research Association |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WCS | Web Coverage Service |
| Supports the networked interchange of geospatial
data as "coverages" containing values or properties of geographic
locations. Unlike the Web Map Service, which returns static maps
(server-rendered as pictures), the Web Coverage Service provides access
to intact (unrendered) geospatial information |
|
| WFS | Web Feature Service |
| OpenGIS Specification that supports INSERT,
UPDATE, DELETE, QUERY and DISCOVERY of geographic features. WFS
delivers GML representations of simple geospatial features in response
to queries from HTTP clients. Clients access geographic feature data
through WFS by submitting a request for just those features that are
needed for an application. |
|
| WMS |
Web Mapping Service |
| OpenGIS Specification that standardizes the way in
which Web clients request maps. Clients request maps from a WMS
instance in terms of named layers and provide parameters such as the
size of the returned map as well as the spatial reference system to be
used in drawing the map. |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the
predominant form for interoperable, self-describing data/content, in
combination with XML schema definition language. See http://www.w3.org/XML/.
XML has its roots in SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (an
ISO standard). The development of XML came about because of perceived
limitations in HTML when used as a tool for publishing complex
documents on the Web. http://www.w3.org. |
