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A/C
Accreditation and Certification
ACT
Advanced Concepts and Technology
ACTD
Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
ADS
Advanced Distributed Simulation
ALSP
Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
AMG
Architectural Management Group
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
AOI
Area Of Interest
API
Application Program Interface
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASNE
Air and Space Natural Environment
 

BIIF
Binary Imagery Interchange Format
BPV
Battlefield Planning and Visualization
BUFR
Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data
BV
Battlefield Visualization

C3I
Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
C4I
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
C4ISR
C4I Surveillance and Reconnaissance
CAE
Computer Aided Exercise
CATT
Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
CAX
Computer Assisted Exercise
CBS
Corps Battle Simulation
CCTT
Close Combat Tactical Trainer
CD-ROM
Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CIG
Computer Image Generator
CGF
Computer Generated Forces
CMMS
Conceptual Model of the Mission Space
COTS
Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CT
Coordinate Transformation
CTDB
Compact Terrain Data Base

DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DBGS
Data Base Generation System
DDDS
Defense Data Dictionary System
DEM
Digital Elevation Model
DFAD
Digital Feature Analysis Data
DFDD
Data Format Design Document
DIF
Data Interchange Format
DIGEST
DIgital Geographic information Exchange STandard
DII/COE
Defense Information Infrastructure / Common Operating Environment
DIS
Distributed Interactive Simulation
DMA
Defense Mapping Agency (see NGA)
DMAFF
DMA Feature File
DMSO
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office
DRM
Data Representation Model
DSI
Defense Simulation Internet
DTAD
Digital Terrain Analysis Data
DTED
Digital Terrain Elevation Data

EA
EDCS Attribute
EAC
EDCS Attribute Code
EAL
EDCS Attribute Label
EC
EDCS Classification
ECC
EDCS Classification Code
ECL
EDCS Classification Label
EDCS
Environmental Data Coding Specification
EE
EDCS attribute Enumeration
EEC
EDCS attribute Enumeration Code
EEL
EDCS attribute Enumeration Label
EG
EDCS Group
EGC
EDCS Group Code
EGL
EDCS Group Label
EO
EDCS Organizational schema
EOC
EDCS Organizational schema Label
EOL
EDCS Organizational schema Label
EQ
EDCS unit eQuivalence class
EQC
EDCS unit eQuivalence class Code
EQL
EDCS unit eQuivalence class Label
ES
EDCS Unit Scale
ESC
EDCS Unit Scale Code
EU
EDCS Unit
EUC
EDCS Unit Code
EUL
EDCS Unit Label
EV
EDCS attribute Value characteristic
EVC
EDCS attribute Value characteristic Code
EVL
EDCS attribute Value characteristic Label
EXCIMS
EXecutive Council In Modeling and Simulation

FACC
Feature Attribute Coding Catalogue
FACS
Feature Attribute Coding Standard
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
FID
Feature IDentifier
FMI
Feature Model Instance
FOV
Field of View or Vision

GCC
GeoCentric Coordinate System
GCI
Geocentric Celestial Inertial coordinate system
GCS
Global Coordinate System
GDC
GeoDetic Coordinate system
GDF
General Database Format
GEI
Geocentric Equatorial Inertial coordinate system
GIS
Geographic Information System
GM
GeoMagnetic coordinate system
GMI
Geometry Model Instance
GPS
Global Positioning System
GRIB
GRIdded Binary format
GSE
Geocentric Solar Ecliptic coordinate system
GSM
Geocentric Solar Magnetospheric coordinate system
GTDB
Generic Transformed Data Base

HAT
Height Above Terrain
HFOV
Horizontal Field Of View
HLA
High Level Architecture

ICAM
Interactive Computer Aided Manufacturing
IDEF1x
Icam DEFinition language, version 1 eXtended
IG
Image Generator
I/ITSEC
Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference
IR
InfraRed
ISO
International Standards Organization
ITD
Interim Terrain Data
ITR
Inter-Transmittal Reference
IU
Image Understanding

JSIMS
Joint SIMulation System
JTA
Joint Technical Architecture
JTASC
Joint Training, Analysis, and Simulation Center
JWARS
Joint WARfare System

LCC
Lambert Conformal Conic PCS
LOD
Level Of Detail
LOS
Line Of Sight
LSR
Local Space Rectangular coordinate system
LTP
Local Tangent Plane coordinate system

M&S
Modeling and Simulation
MARVEDS
MARitime Virtual Environment Data Specification
MCG&I
Mapping, Charting, Geodesy, and Imagery
MEL
Master Environmental Library
METOC
METeorology and OCeanography
MIL
Man-In-the-Loop
ModSAF
Modular Semi-Automated Forces
MRTDB
Model Reference Terrain Data Base
MRSTDB
Multi-level Routing Support Terrain Data Base
MSEA
Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent
MSL
Mean Sea Level
MSRR
Modeling and Simulation Resource Repository

NASM
National Air and Space (warfare) Model
NBC
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
NGA
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NIMA
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (see NGA)
NITFS
National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory
NTC
National Training Center
NVG
Night Vision Goggles

OEA
Ocean Executive Agency
OGIS
Open Geographic Information Systems

PCS
Projected Coordinate System
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
PS
Polar Sterographic PCS
PSM
Portable Space Model
PTDB
Paradigm Terrain Data Base
PVD
Plan View Display

RMSE
Root Mean Square Error
RTI
RunTime Infrastructure

SAF
Semi-Automated Forces
SAI
SEDRIS Application Interface
SAM
SEDRIS Associates Meeting
SCR
SEDRIS Change Request
SDBF
SIF Data Base Facility
SDK
Software Development Kit
SEDRIS
follow this link
SEE-IT
Synthetic Environment Evaluation - Inspection Tool
SIF
SSDB Interchange Format
SIF++
SIF data pre-processed for compiling into the derived databases
SIMNET
SIMulation NETwork
SLF
Standard Linear Format
SM
Solar Magnetic coordinate system
SRM
Spatial Reference Model
SSDB
Standard Simulator Data Base
STF
SEDRIS Transmittal Format
STOW
Synthetic Theater Of War
STOW-A
STOW - Army
STOW-E
STOW - Europe
SWM
Solar Wind Magnetospheric coordinate system

TDB
Terrain Data Base
TDF
TOWAN Data Format
TE
Topocentric Equator coordinate system
TH
Topocentric Horizon coordinate system
TIN
Triangulated Irregular Network
TM
Transverse Mercator PCS
TOWAN
Tactical Oceanography Wide Area Network
TROPO
TROPOsphere scatter

UCDM
USIGS Conceptual Data Model
UFAC
User-defined Feature Attribute Codes
UML
Unified Modeling Language
USIGS
United States Imagery and Geospatial System
UTM
Universal Transverse Mercator PCS

VCS
Vertical Coordinate System
VPF
Vector Product Format
VRF
Vector Relational Format (DIGEST VPF)
VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
V&V
Verification and Validation

WARSIM
WARfighters SIMulation 2000
WGS-84
World Geodetic System - 1984
WMO
World Meteorological Organization

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