GIS Dictionary

[environmental GIS] Acronym for United States Geological Survey. A scientific agency of the U.S. government, part of the Department of […]

[federal government] The U.S. government agency responsible for maintaining the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS), the national coordinate system of

[standards] Acronym for Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration. An XML-based standard for creating online directories of Web services.

[programming] Acronym for user interface. The portion of a computer’s hardware and software that facilitates human interaction. The UI includes

[programming] A custom button, tool, text box, or combo box created with VBA.

[programming] Acronym for Unified Modeling Language. A modeling language that uses a series of diagrams to model the objects in

[ESRI software] In Survey Analyst – Cadastral Editor, a cadastral fabric editing command that undoes the parcel generated from the

[computing] Acronym for Universal (or Uniform) Naming Convention. A PC format for specifying the location of resources on a local-area

[uncertainty] The degree to which the measured value of some quantity is estimated to vary from the true value. Uncertainty

1 [cadastral and land records] A parcel that is only partially defined or that is missing a sequence of one

[ESRI software] The isolation level in an RDBMS specifying the minimum isolation from concurrent transactions. The transaction can read data