Glossary

AHO	Australian Hydrographic Office
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AODN	Australia Ocean Data Network
API	Application Programming Interface
ATRF	Australian Terrestrial Reference Frame
AUV	Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
BAG	Bathymetric Attributed Grid is a file format designed to store and exchange bathymetric data (https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/noshdb/ons_fsd.pdf)
CRS	Coordinate Reference System
Contributing Data Partner	A contributing data partner is an organisation that has agreed to assign custodianship for a data product to GA, as an implemented AusSeabed Data Hub.
Contributing Hub	A Contributing Hub is: · A data store that provides data processed to the AusSeabed standard · Connected to the broader AusSeabed Data Hub component infrastructure for seamless delivery to the end user · Meaningfully supported from within their own organisation with a forward commitment to continue for at least 12months.
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CUBE	Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator
DCAT/RDF	DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogues published on the Web.
DGNSS	Differential GNSS (DGNSS) is a kind of GNSS Augmentation system based on an enhancement to primary GNSS constellation(s) information by the use of a network of ground-based reference stations
DGPS	A Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) is an enhancement to the Global Positioning System (GPS) which provides improved location accuracy
DOI	Persistent Digital Object Identifier (https://www.doi.org )
eCat	Geoscience Australia’s Product Catalogue https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home
EGM2008	Earth Gravitational Model 2008 - https://earth-info.nga.mil/ The development and evaluation of the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008) - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011JB008916
ERS	Ellipsoidal Reference System
FORCE11 FAIR	Fair Data Principles https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples
GA	Geoscience Australia
GDAL	The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library is a computer software library for reading and writing raster and vector geospatial data formats. (https://gdal.org/ )
GEBCO	General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans - https://www.gebco.net/
GeoNetwork	The GeoNetwork open source project is a free and open source cataloguing application for spatially referenced resources.
GNSS	Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is a general term describing any satellite constellation that provides positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services on a global or regional basis
GSF	GSF is a Generic Sensor Format used for storing bathymetry data
HYPACK	A software for Hydrographic data collection, processing and final products produced by any multibeam systems. https://www.hypack.com/
IHO DCDB	International Hydrographic Organisation’s Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/iho/
ISO	International Organisation for Standardisation
L0	An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to Raw data
L2	An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to Processed data
L3	An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to generated products
LADS	Laser Airborne Depth Sounder
LAS/LAZ	The LASer and compressed version LAZ is a file format designed for interchange and archiving of point cloud data. The format supports 3 dimensional x,y,z tuplet data.
LAT	A Vertical datum defined by the Lowest Astronomical Tide
MATE	a plugin for QAX that contains the handling, processing, and output requirements for raw multibeam data checks
MRU	MRU Sensors are a high performance motion sensor that measure Roll, Pitch, Heave, Sway, Surge, Accelerations, Angular rates and Velocity for any rig, ship or vessel on which it is mounted.
MSL	A Vertical datum defined by the Mean Sea Level
MBES	Multibeam echosounder
NOAA	US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OAI-PMH	Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OGC CSW	Open Geospatial Consortium – Catalogue Service for the Web
OGC GML	Open Geospatial Consortium – Geography Markup Language
OpenSearch	OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite
POSMV	POS MV is a turnkey system designed and built to provide accurate position, heading, attitude, heave and velocity data of marine vessels and remote sensing equipment
QAX	Quality Assurance Tool
QIMERA QPS	QIMERA QPS is a hydrographic data processing software suite
RMS	Refers to Root Mean Square as is a means of measuring positional accuracy
ROV	Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle
RTK	Real-Time Kinetic positioning is the application of surveying to correct for common errors in GNSS systems
SBES	Singlebeam echosounder
SeaDataNet	Pan-European marine data infrastructure SeaDataNet
SIS	SIS is the software and user interface for real time data processing for hydrographic instruments supplied by Kongsberg
SOI	Schmidt Ocean Institute
SVP	Sound Velocity Profiles can be used to calculate bathymetry from acoustic data
Teledyne CARIS	Teledyne CARIS is a developer of marine mapping software https://www.teledynecaris.com/en/products/
Teledyne PDS	Teledyne PDS is a multipurpose software platform and supports a wide range of tasks within Hydrography, Dredge Guidance, Construction Support, Search & Recovery Operations and Port Entrance Monitoring
TPU	Within the bathymetry domain the Total Propagated Uncertainty is the computed horizontal and vertical uncertainty associated with each sounding and helps identify and remove bias from processing
URI	Uniform Resource Identifier – This is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies.
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time – primary time standard
WCD	Water Column Data
Z39.50	Z39.50 is an international standard client–server, application layer communications protocol for searching and retrieving information from a database over a TCP/IP computer network. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950