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Revision as of 15:32, 14 November 2005
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A
- ADT
- Architectural Desktop
B
- B-Rep
- Boundary Representation
C
- CAAD
- Computer Aided Architectural Design
- CAD
- Computer Aided Design
- CRS
- coordinate reference system
- CSG
- Constructive Solid Geometry
D
- DDS
- Data Design System
- DXF
- Data Exchange Format, File Format
E
F
- FM
- Facility Management
- FZK
- Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
G
- GIS
- Geographic Information System
- GML
- Geography Markup Language [1]
- GUID
- Global Unique Identifier
H
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language
- HVAC
- Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning
I
- IAI
- International Alliance for Interoperability
- IFC
- Industry Foundation Classes
- IGES
- Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, File Format
J
K
- KML
- Keyhole Markup Language [2]
L
- LandSat 7
- The seventh satellite of the LandSat project. See LandSat 7 for information on the satellite's imagery in World Wind.
- Latitude
- Degrees difference North or South from the Equator.
- LoD
- Level of Detail
- Longitude
- Degrees difference East or West from Greenwich, England.
M
- MODIS
- Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. See Rapid Fire MODIS for usage details in World Wind.
N
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NLT
- NASA Learning Technologies
- NOSA
- NASA Open Source Software Agreement
- NWW
- NASA World Wind
O
- Orthophoto
- A photograph that has been processed to have a uniform-scale.
P
- pan-sharpening
- The act of combining a low resolution color image with a high resolution black and white image to create a high resolution color image.
S
- script
- A prerecorded series of view changes and text display that can be run from within World Wind.
- SRTM
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
- Surface Data
- See dataset.
- SVS
- Scientific Visualization Studio
T
- tile
- An image from a dataset. World Wind downloads datasets one tile at a time.
- Topographic
- Graphic representation of the surface features of an area.
U
W
- WMS
- Web Map Server is a specification by the Open Geospatial Consortium. See WMS Browser for usage details in World Wind.
- WWC
- World Wind Central
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