Acronyms Related to Coastal Web Atlases
ACEP African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme
AMA African Marine Atlas
API Application Programming Interface
BODC British Oceanographic Data Centre
CAI Coastal Atlas Interoperability
CF Climate Forecast
CMA Caribbean Marine Atlas
CMRC Coastal and Marine Resources Centre
COMPASS Coastal Marine Perception Application for Science Scholarship
COTS Commercial-Off-the-Shelf
CPMR Conference on Peripheral Maritime Regions
CSW Catalogue Services for the Web
CV Controlled Vocabulary
CWA Coastal Web Atlas
DBMS Database Management System
DEDUCE Développement durable des Côtes Européennes (Sustainable Development of European Coastal Zones)
DG Directorate-General
DISMAR Data Integration System for MARine pollution and water quality
DOI Digital Object Identifier
EC European Commission
EEA European Environment Agency
ECOOP European Coastal-shelf Sea Operational Observing and Forecasting System
EDINA Edinburgh Data and Information Access (University of Edinburgh, UK)
EDMS European Data Management System
EIONET European Environmental Information and Observation Network
EMMA European Monitoring and Assessment
ENCORA EuropeaN platform for Coastal ReseArch
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
ETC-LUSI European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Simulation
EU European Union
EUCC European Union for Coastal Conservation
EuroDeSS European Decision Support System for coastal and regional seas
EurOcean European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology
ESF European Science Foundation
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (of the UN, United Nations)
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GCMD Global Change Master Directory
GEO Group on Earth Observations (coordinator of GEOSS)
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
geoRSS Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds
GIS Geographic Information System
GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GML Geographic Markup Language
GRAME Global Regular Assessment of Marine Environments
GSDI Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (association)
ICAN International Coastal Atlas Network
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ICES International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
ICZM Integrated Coastal Zone Management
IFEN Institut Français de l’ENvironnement
(The French Institut of the Environment)
IFREMER Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER (French Research Institution for Exploitation of the Sea)
IHO International Hydrographic Organization
IMAGIN Irish Sea Marine Aggregates Initiative
IMCORE Innovative Management for Europe's Changing Coastal Resource
IMF Internet Mapping Framework
IM International Maritime Organization
IMP Integrated Maritime Policy
IMS Internet Map Server
INSPIRE INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe
InterRisk Interoperable GMES Services for Environmental Risk Management in Marine and Coastal Areas of Europe(successor of DISMAR)
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO)
IODE International Oceanographic Data and information Exchange
IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System
IPR Intellectual Property Rights
ISDE Irish Spatial Data Exchange
ISMAR Institute of Marine Science, National Research Council (Italy)
ISO International Organization for Standardization (derived from the Greek “isos,” meaning “equal”)
ISP International Standardization Profile
ISSN International Standard Serial Number
JCOMM Joint Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (WMO and IOC)
KML Keyhole Markup Language (Google Earth)
LIDAR Light Detection And Ranging
MESH Mapping European Seabed Habitats
MIDA Marine Irish Digital Atlas
MMI Marine Metadata Interoperability
MOTIIVE Marine Overlays on Topography for annex II Valuation and Exploitation
MSDI Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure
MSFD Marine Strategy Framework Directive
NDG NERC Data Grid
NERC Natural Environment Research Council (U.K.)
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
NODC National Oceanographic Data Centre (UNESCO IOC IODE)
NRC National Reference Centre (EIONET)
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSF National Science Foundation
OBIS Ocean Biogeographic Information System
OCA Oregon Coastal Atlas
ODIN Ocean Data and Information Network (UNESCO IOC IODE)
OGC Open Geospatial Consortium
OS Open Source
OSU Oregon State University
OWL Web Ontology Language
PHP PHP: Hypertext Processor (this is what is known as a "recursive acronym")
PSI Public Sector Information
RDF Resource Description Framework
ROOS Regional Operational Oceanographic System
RSS Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
SAIAB South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure
SEIS Shared Environmental Information Systems
SIGLA Sistema de Información Geográfica del Litoral de Andalucía (GIS for the Coastal Zone Management of Andalucia)
SKOS Simple Knowledge Organisation System
SSE Service Support Environment
SVN Sub-version
UCC University College Cork
UML Unified Modeling Language
UNEP MAP United Nations Environment Programme-Mediterranean Action Plan
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator (often a synonym for URI)
URN Uniform Resource Name (a URI that uses the urn scheme)
US/USA United States or United States of America
USGS United States Geological Survey
VLIZ Vlaams Instituut Voor de Zee (Flanders Marine Institute)
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WCS Web Coverage Service
WFD Water Framework Directive
WFS Web Feature Service
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WMS Web Map Service
XML eXtensible Markup Language
