Table 1. Acronyms and abbreviations
Acronym Full term

ADRG

Arc Digitized Raster Graphics

AIS

Aeronautical Information Services

AIXM

Aeronautical Information Exchange Model

API

Application Programming Interface

ARINC

Aeronautical Radio Incorporated

ASDI

Aircraft Situation Display to Industry

ASRP

Arc Standard Raster Product

ASTERIX

All purpose STructured Eurocontrol suRveillance Information eXchange

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ATM

Air Traffic Management

BIL

Band Interleaved by Line

BMP

Bitmap

BPW

BMP World

BUFR

Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data

CADRG

Compressed Arc Digitized Raster Graphic

CGM

Computer Graphics Metafile

CGRS

Common Grid Reference System

CIB

Controlled Image Base

CRGS

Common Grid Reference System

CRS

Coordinate Reference System

DAFIF

Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File

DEM

(USGS) Digital Elevation Model

DGN

Design (file format)

DHM

Digital Height Model

DIMAP

Digital Image Map

DMA

Defense Mapping Agency

DMED

Digital Mean Elevation Data

DTED

Digital Terrain Elevation Data

DWG

(AutoCAD) Drawing

DXF

(AutoCAD) Drawing

ECDIS

Electronic Chart Display and Information System

ECRG

Enhanced Compressed Raster Graphic

ECW

Enhanced Compression Wavelet

EPSG

European Petroleum Survey Group

ESRI

Environmental Systems Research Institute

GARS

Global Area Reference System

GEE

Google Earth Enterprise

GDAL

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

GDF

Geographic Data File

GEOREF

World Geographic Reference System

GeoTIFF

Geographic TIFF

GIF

Graphic Interchange Format

GML

Geography Markup Language

GRIB

Gridded Binary

GUI

Graphical User Interface

IGRF

International Geomagnetic Reference Field

JAI

Java Advanced Imaging

JGW

JPEG World

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPL

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

MAP

MapInfo Format

MIF

MapInfo Interchange Format

MrSID

(LizardTech) Multiresolution Seamless Image Database

MTM

Multileveled Tiled Model

MVC

Model View Controller

NetCDF

Network Common Data Form

NIMA

National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NITF

National Imagery Transmission Format

NVG

NATO Vector Graphic

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

OBJ

(Alias WaveFront) OBJect

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

PBM

Portable BitMap

PGM

Portable GrayMap

PNM

Portable aNyMap

PPM

Portable PixMap

POL

(TAAM) Polygon

SIGWX

(WAFS) Significant Weather

SLD

Styled Layer Descriptor

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

SwissDHM

SwissTopo Digital Height Model

TAB

(MapInfo) Tab

TEA

Terrain Elevation Analysis

TFW

Tiff World

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

UPS

Universal Polar Stereographic

USGS

US Geological Survey

USRP

UPS/UTM Standard Raster Product

UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

VPF

Vector Product Format

WAFS

World Area Forecast System

WCS

Web Coverage Service

WFS

Web Feature Service

WKT

Well-Known Text

WMM

World Magnetic Model

WMS

Web Map Service

WMTS

Web Map Tile Service

XML

eXtensible Markup Language