Acronyms
| API | Application Program Interface |
| BP | Biotic Prediction project |
| BSD | Baseline Software Design |
| CCB | Configuration Control Board |
| CGFS | Cerro Grande Fire Site in Los Alamos, NM |
| CI | Co-Investigator |
| CM | Configuration Manager / Configuration Management |
| CMP | Configuration Management Plan |
| CONOP | Concept of Operations |
| COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CSU | Colorado State University |
| CT | Computational Technologies project |
| CVS | Concurrent Version Software |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DAO | Data Access Object |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Models |
| DHTML | Dynamic Hyper-Text Markup Language |
| DTO | Data Transfer Object |
| ECHO | Earth Clearing HOuse |
| ENVI | Environment for Visualizing Images |
| ESML | Earth Science Markup Language |
| ESTO | Earth Science Technology Office |
| ETM+ | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus |
| FORTRAN | FORmula TRANslator computer language |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HPC | High Performance Computing |
| HTML | Hyper-Text Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hyper-Text Transport Protocol |
| HVC | Hydrologic Unit Code, type of GIS boundary |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| ION | IDL On the Net |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISFS | Invasive Species Forecasting System |
| J2EE | Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition |
| J2SE | Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition |
| JDBC | Java Database Connectivity |
| JMX | Java Management Extensions |
| JNDI | Java Naming and Directory Interface |
| JOX | Java Objects in XML |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LTP | Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics |
| LTPCF | Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics Computing Facility |
| MODIS | MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MVC | Model View Controller |
| NASA | National Aeronautic and Space Association |
| NBII | National Biological Information Infrastructure |
| NCCS | NASA Center for Computational Sciences |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPG | NASA Procedures and Guidelines |
| NREL | Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory |
| OLS | Ordinary Least Squares |
| OS | Operating System |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| QAP | Quality Assurance Plan |
| RAID | Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks |
| RDBMS | Relational Database Management System |
| RMNP | Rocky Mountain National Park, CO |
| RMP | Risk Management Plan |
| RSI | Research Systems Incorporated |
| RTM | Requirements Traceability Matrix |
| SA | System Administration |
| SCP | Secure Copy |
| SDD | Software Design Document |
| SEP | Software Engineering / Development Plan |
| SMM | Software Maintenance Manual |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SRD | Software Requirements Document |
| SRR | Software Requirements Review |
| SRTM | Software Requirements Trace Matrix |
| SSH2 | Secure Shell |
| SUG | Software User's Guide |
| TBD | To Be Determined or To Be Developed |
| TP | Test Plan |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
Terms
Confluence - Intersection of two rivers
Merged Dataset - Merging field data with image layer(s) (remote sensed, GIS)
Model Array - Subset of Merged Dataset, input into modeling algorithm
Augmented Dataset - Adding a calculated/derived field to merged dataset.
Kriging - Geostatistical method for generating residuals for remote sensed points for which you don't have field data
Nugget - Variogram attribute, must be a non-zero value. The difference/variability, between point values taken within a 20 x 50 meter area.
Range - Variogram attribute, Kriging attribute, distance it took to get to the sill
Reach - Length of a river containing no intersections
Sill - Variogram attribute, the plateau, largest value of variability.
Invasive Species - A non-native species whose introduction causes or is likely to cause harm to the economy, environment or human health.
GeoStatistics - Applies the theories of stochastic processes and statistical inference to geographic phenomena.
Computer Cluster - A collection of 2 or more computers that appear as a single computer to the user community.
Computer Grids - A large number of computers arranged as clusters, embedded in a distributed telecommunications infrastructure.
RAID - Basic idea is to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Additionally, this array of drives appears to the computer as a single logical storage unit or drive.
