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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Priorities for GEOINT Research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11601.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Priorities for GEOINT Research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11601.
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Appendix A
List of Acronyms


ACTD

Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

API

application programming interface

ARIVA

Advanced Research in Interactive Visualization for Analysis


BAA

Broad Area Announcement

BARO

Basic and Applied Research Office


CBRTA

Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Technology Alliance

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

COTS

commercial off-the-shelf

CRADA

cooperative research and development agreement


DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DBMS

Database Management Systems

DHS

Department of Homeland Security

DMA

Defense Mapping Agency

DoD

Department of Defense

DTO

Disruptive Technology Office


FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee


GEOINT

geospatial intelligence

GIS

geographic information systems

GIScience

geographic information science

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Priorities for GEOINT Research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11601.
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GML

geography markup language

GPS

Global Positioning System


HBCU-MI

Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions

HPC

high-performance computing

HPGIS

high-performance geospatial intelligence systems


IC

intelligence community

IFSAR

interferometric synthetic aperture radar

IGERT

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship

IMINT

imagery intelligence

INT

intelligence

I/O

input-output

IT

information technology


LAN

local area network

LBS

location-based services

LIDAR

light detection and ranging


MULTI-INT

multiple types of intelligence


NARP

NGA Academic Research Program

NGA

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NIMA

National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NPIC

National Photographic Interpretation Center

NRC

National Research Council

NRO

National Reconnaissance Office

NSA

National Security Agency

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSG

National System for Geospatial Intelligence

NTA

National Technology Alliance

NURI

NGA University Research Initiatives


OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

OID

object identifier

OMB

Office of Management and Budget


R&D

research and development

RDF

resource development framework


SAR

synthetic aperture radar

SBIR

Small Business Innovation Research

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Priorities for GEOINT Research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11601.
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S-DBMS

spatial database management system

SDTS

spatial data transfer standard

SOLAP

Spatial OnLine Analytical Processing

STAR

Synergistic Targeting Auto-extraction and Registration

ST-DBMS

spatiotemporal database management system


TPED

tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination


UCGIS

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

UML

unified modeling language

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey


XML

extensible markup language

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: List of Acronyms." National Research Council. 2006. Priorities for GEOINT Research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11601.
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