| Acronym |
Definition |
| AASG |
Association
of American State Geologists |
| AFOSR |
Air
Force Office of Scientific Research |
| AFTAC |
US
National Data Center |
| ANSS |
Advanced
National Seismic System |
| ASL |
Albuquerque
Seismological Laboratory |
| ATM |
NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences |
| BREQ_FAST |
Batch
REQuests Fast (an e-mail based data request tool) |
| CDMG |
California
Division of Mining and Geology (ftp site for strong
motion seismic data) |
| CMT |
centroid moment
tensor |
| COCORP |
Consortium
for Continental Reflection Profiling |
| COSMOS |
Consortium
of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems |
| CROP |
Customized
Reduction of Products (a tool used to pare down the
volume of data from a FARM product) |
| CUREE |
Consortium
of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering |
| DCC |
data collection center (like ASL and IDA) |
| DEOS |
Dynamics of Earth & Ocean Systems |
| DHI |
Data Handling Initiative (IRIS) |
| DLESE |
Digital
Library for Earth System Education |
| DMC |
Data Management
Center |
| DMS |
Data Management
System |
| DOSECC |
Drilling,
Observation and Sampling of the Earth's Continental Crust,
Inc. |
| EAR |
NSF Division of Earth Sciences
- Continental Dynamics
- Education and Human Resources
- Geology and Paleontology
- Geophysics
- Hydrologic Sciences
- Instrumentation and Facilities
- Petrology and Geochemistry
- Tectonics
|
| EERI |
Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute |
| ERI |
Earthquake
Research Institute |
| FA |
Flexible Array |
| FARM |
Fast Archive Recovery
Method |
| FDSN |
Federation
of Digital Broad-Band Seismograph Networks |
| FEMA |
Federal
Emergency Management Agency |
| GDL |
Geoscience
Digital Library |
| GEO |
NSF Directorate for Geosciences |
| GGP |
Global
Geodynamics Project - Recording the Earth's gravity
field using superconducting gravimeters |
| GSN |
Global Seismic
Network |
| HDF |
Hypocenter Data
Format |
| IASPEI |
International
Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior |
| IDA |
International
Deployment of Accelerometers (Scripps) |
| IDC |
International Data Centre, in Vienna, organization to
monitor the CTBT |
| IGPP |
Institute
of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Scripps) |
| IMS |
International Monitoring System (of the UN) |
| IPGP |
Institut
de Physique du Globe, Paris |
| IRIS |
Incorporated
Research Institutions for Seismology |
| ISC |
International Seismological Centre (United Kingdom) |
| ITR |
NSF Information Technology Research |
| JSP |
Joint Seismic Program (no longer active) |
| KDI |
NSF Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence |
| Lithoprobe |
Canada's
National Geoscience Project |
| LLNL |
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory |
| MAE |
Mid-America
Earthquake Center |
| MCEER |
Multidisciplinary
Center for Earthquake Engineering Research |
| MDC |
Moscow Data Center |
| NEIC |
National
Earthquake Information Center (USGS) |
| NEMA |
National
Emergency Manager's Association |
| NetDC |
Networked Data Centers (a request mechanism) |
| NOC |
Network Operations Center (ASL & IDA) |
| NSDL |
National
SMETE Digital Library |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| OBSIP |
Ocean Bottom Seismic Instrumentation Pool |
| OCE |
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences |
| ORFEUS |
Observatories
and Research Facilities for European Seismology |
| PASSCAL |
Program
for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere |
| PEER |
Pacific
Earthquake Engineering Research Center |
| PIC |
PASSCAL
Instrument Center (currently in Socorro, NM) |
| POD |
Program to Output
Data (IRIS) |
| QED |
Quick
Epicenter Determination (from the NEIC) |
| RELISH |
Responses
Evaluated by Listing Information in SEED Headers (IRIS
tool) |
| SALSA |
Scientific ALliance for South America |
| SBIR |
NSF Small Business Innovation Research |
| SC |
Standing
Committee |
| SCEC |
Southern
California Earthquake Center |
| SCIGN |
Southern
California Integrated GPS Network |
| SEED |
Standard
for the Exchange of Earthquake Data |
| SIO |
Scripps
Institute of Oceanography |
| SMETE |
Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education |
| SOD |
Standing Order for Data (IRIS) |
| SOSA |
Synthetic and Observed Seismogram Analysis |
| SPYDER® |
System to
Provide You Data from Earthquakes Rapidly (IRIS) |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
| TA |
Transportable Array |
| UCAR |
University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research (handy acronyms
and links page for GDL) |
| UNAVCO |
a UCAR
facility supporting GPS |
| UNIDATA |
a University
Consortium for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) organization |
| USNSN |
United States National Seismograph Network |
| U of W |
University
of Washington |
| USGS |
United
States Geological Survey |
| UV-FARM |
Ultra Long Period
(.01 sam/sec ) FARM products and Very
Long Period (0.1 Sam/sec) FARM products |
| VSNE |
Virtual Seismic Network Explorer (under development) |
| WEED |
Windows Extracted
from Earthquake Data (a data request tool) |
| WILBER |
Web
Interface to Lookup Big Events for Retrieval (an interface
to FARM and SPYDER® data) |
| WQC |
Waveform
Quality Center (Harvard) |
| WSSPC |
Western
States Seismic Policy Council |
