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Appendix D Acronyms
Pages 149-152

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... FDA Flood Damage Assessment FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee FIRM Flood Insurance Rate Map FIS Flood Insurance Study GAo Government Accountability office GIS geographic information system GPS Global Positioning System 
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... NAPP National Aerial Photography Program NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NAVD88 North American Vertical Datum of 1988 NDEP National Digital Elevation Program NDoP National Digital orthophoto Program NED National Elevation Dataset NFIP National Flood Insurance Program NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGS National Geodetic Survey NGVD29 National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 NMAS National Map Accuracy Standards NoAA National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure NSGIC National States Geographic Information Council NSSDA National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy 0
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... Geological Survey UTM universal transverse mercator VERTCoN vertical conversion VMAS Vertical Map Accuracy Standard WGS84 World Geodetic System of 1984 
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