180. Software Infrastructure : MBARI Acronym Page This page last changed on Jan 14, 2015 by carueda. AAAI: Association for the advancement of artificial intelligence ACT: Alliance for Coastal Technology. A NOAA-funded partnership of research institutions, resource managers, and private sector companies dedicated to fostering the development and adoption of effective and reliable sensors and platforms. http://www.act-us.info/ ADCP: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler - a sonar that attempts to produce a record of water current velocities for a range of depths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Doppler_Current_Profiler AEITS: Autonomous Eye-in-the Sea - stand-alone deepwater video observatory for unobtrusive monitoring (not connected to a cable - gathers data autonomously) AGU: American Geophysical Union AIV: Analytical Instrument Valve (a valve on the MFB) Alfresco: not an acronym. Open source content management system. http://www.alfresco.com http://alfresco.mbari.org ALOHA-MARS: http://alohamooring.apl.washington.edu/ ALOHA (A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment) is a place off the coast of Hawaii where HOT (Hawaiian Ocean Timeseries) Station 2 data is taken, at 22 45'N, 158W, located about 100 km north of Oahu, Hawaii. Station ALOHA has been the location of ~monthly shipboard observations of water column physics, biogeochemistry, and ecosystems for over 18 years. Nearby moorings have also been deployed (e.g. HALE-ALOHA). The NSF-funded cabled observatory deployed at that site is called the ALOHA observatory. MARS is the Monterey Advanced Research System (see below). The idea is to deploy a mooring in Monterey Bay connected to the MARS observatory, and in the future another one at the ALOHA site connected to the ALOHA observatory. The team hopes to deploy subsequent similar nodes at other observatory sites (H20, Neptune, DEOS sites, etc.). http://seahurst.apl.washington.edu/mars.php AMC: Autonomous Mission Controller AMQP: Advanced Message Queuing Protocol - http://www.amqp.org AOA: Angle of Attack APL: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington ARI-WG: Access to Remote Instrumentation in a distributed environment - Working Group. OpenGrid Forum http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/view.php?group=ari-wg ASLO: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ASTEP: Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets ATS: Autonomous Tissue Sampler AVED: Automated Visual Event Detection http://www.mbari.org/aved/ AWW: All was well. http://www.jkrowling.com/en/ Beowulf cluster: scalable performance collection of independent computers based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure. BIAUV: Benthic Imaging Autonomous underwater vehicle BIOSA: Biophysical Oceanographic Sensor Array Bogey: not an acronym. A score of one over par on any individual hole. BOM: Bill of Materials BRS/MRS: Benthic Respirometer System / Midwater Respriometer System http://www.mbari.org/expeditions/Pulse53/gear.htm Bye: in sports and other competitive activities, most commonly refers to the practice of allowing a player or team to advance to the next round of a playoff tournament without playing Calit2: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (at UCSD) Caltech: California Institute of Technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech CDR: Critical Design Review ("Hey I'm starting to build something, should I stop?") CI: Cyberinfrastructure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberinfrastructure CeNCOOS: Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System http://www.cencoos.org/ CENIC: The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California http://www.cenic.org/ CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics CGSN: Coastal & Global Scale Nodes - http://www.whoi.edu/ooi_cgsn/home CMORE: Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (a funding source) CNAME'd: canonical name, also referred to as a CNAME record, a record in a DNS database that indicates the true, or canonical, host name of a computer that its aliases are associated with. an alias so that DNS can resolve some alias to a specific machine http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CNAME.htm COI: Common operating infrastructure (one of seven projects that together implement the Network for Ocean Research, Interaction and Application (NORIA) OOI CI. Coolpix: Not an acronym. A registered trademark of Nikon. Digital cameras sold by Nikon, Inc. Coolpix images are digital images captured by a Coolpix camera. We often use the term Coolpix when we mean digital image captured by a digital still camera. Condor: not an acronym. A specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ CREON: Coral Reef Environmental Observatory Network http://www.coralreefeon.org/ Cron: not an acronym. Cron is the name of program that enables UNIX users to execute commands or scripts (groups of commands) automatically at a specified time/date. http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html CTD: Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=1003 CUAHSI: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. - http://www.cuahsi.org/ CVS: Concurrent Versions System; maintains control of history of code/documents DataNet solicitation: NSF 07-601, Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet). DC: Dublin Core vocabulary DEM: Digital Elevation Model D-ESP: Deep ESP; the sphere and all it's accouterments DI: De-ionized, often used with water DMO: Division of Marine Operations DMZ: Demilitarized zone. Computers placed into their own subnetwork (sometimes protected by a back-end firewall) in direct connection with the internet, protected by a front-end firewall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demilitarized_zone_(computing) Doc Ricketts: ROV, replacing Tiburon, carried by R/V Western Flyer. DOEST: Day of Engineering, Science and Technology Dribbling: not an acronym. The act of bouncing the ball continuously DSL: Digital Subscriber Line; used to describe a type of modem DStoNetCDF: SSDS post-processing service DVL: Doppler Velocity Log DWSM: Deep Water Sampling Module EarthCube: EarthCube is a NSF activity to create a data and knowledge management system for the 21st Century. The scientific objective is to develop a framework over the next decade to understand and predict the Earth system from the sun to the center of the Earth http://earthcube.ning.com/ EE: Electrical Engineering eGY: the Electronic Geophysical Year http://www.egy.org/ EITS: Eye-in-the Sea - deepwater video observatory for unobtrusive monitoring. http://www.mbari.org/mars/general/eits.html EOM: Electro-Optical-Mechanical EPA: Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/ EPIC: Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing ERA: Earned Run Average ESB: Enterprise Service Bus ESIP Federation: Federation of Earth Science Information Partners ESONET: European Seafloor Observatory Network http://www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk/research/esonet.php ESP: Environmental Sample Processor - Chris Scholin et al. http://www.mbari.org/muse/platforms/ESP.htm Darlene was the 1st generation ESP GiGi The first 'second generation' ESP instrument NEO 'Nasa-Earth-Observatory'; The second 'second generation' ESP instrument Mack The third 'second generation' ESP instrument Bruce Another 'second generation' ESP instrument MOE A second gen. instrument with the MFB connected Betty -another one Gordon -another one (Betty & Gordon named after the founders of the Moore Foundation, who funded the builds) ESSIN: Earth Sciences Semantic Interoperability Network. A multi-institutional proposal to NSF under the Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) Crosscutting program. Et al.: and others FC5: Fedora Core 5 FDR: Final Design Review Ferret: plotting/analysis software package FOCE: Free Ocean CO2 Enrichment FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array FSM: Finite State Machine FVGR: Free Vehicle Grab Respirometer GAL: Gene Array Layout which is the file generated when printing a microarray for the ESP instrument. It tells you what and where things were printed on the filter paper. GNB: Gaussian Naïve Bayes. GNB is a probabilistic classifier relying on Bayes rule to estimate posterior probabilities of labels given the data. Naive assumption in it is an independence of the features. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_bayes for more information. GEOSS: Global Earth Observation System of Systems http://www.epa.gov/geoss/ GRID Computing: Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is the application of several computers to a single problem at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing GRIIDC: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/about GUI: Graphical User Interface GWT: Google Web Toolkit - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ HDF: Hierarchical Data Format Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: not an acronym. Fear of the number six-hundred sixty-six. HOBI: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution HOTS: Hawaii Ocean Time-Series program HPP: High-Pressure pump ICAN: The International Coastal Atlas Network - http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/home ICD: Interface Control Diagram; block diagram of all system components and their interfaces ICPR: International Conference on Pattern Recognition. This is the annual conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition IDE: Integrated Development Environment iLab: Professor Laurent Itti's biologically inspired computational modeling group at the University of Southern California. They maintain the iLab Neuromorphic Vision C++ Toolkit that we use in AVED for visual event detection. IMDIS: International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems sponsored by http://www.seadatanet.org/ International metadata summit: This summit is formally titled the IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management and Exchange Standards. It is a weeklong meeting of a small group (17) of leaders in international oceanographic data and metadata systems, yet is intended to initiate international agreements on metadata standards. See http://www.iode.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74 for details. IO: Implementing Organization http://www.orionprogram.org/PDFs/OOI_CG_RFP_16Mar07.pdf IOC: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/index.php IODE: International Oceanographic Data Exchange, http://www.iode.org IODP: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program http://www.iodp.org IOOS: Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System http://www.ocean.us ISUS: In Situ Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer IWCE: International Wireless Communication Expo (http://www.iwceexpo.com) JCOMM: Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/index.php JEE: Java Enterprise Edition (formerly known as J2EE) JIRA: A bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/ JOI: Joint Oceanographic Institutions http://www.joiscience.org/joi JVM: Java Virtual Machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jvm KML: Keyhole Markup Language - A file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth LCM: Lightweight Communications and Marshalling https://lcm-proj.github.io/ LED: Light-emitting diode LDEO: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories LRAUV: Long Range AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) LST: Langrangian sediment trap MATE: Marine Advanced Technology Education Center at Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) MARS: Monterey Accelerated Research System - Monterey Cabled Observatory System Maven: software project management and comprehension tool. http://maven.apache.org/ MBA: Monterey Bay Aquarium MB/CA Current: a MBARI project in 2011 MEITS: Moored Eye-in-the Sea - deepwater video observatory for unobtrusive monitoring to be deployed on MARS Meta-T: Water Temperature metadata pilot project, which is being developed under the umbrella of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM). (http://marinemetadata.org/meta-t ) MFB: Micro-Fluidics Block--added instrumentation to the ESP MMI: Marine Metadata Initiative http://marinemetadata.org/ MMI ORR: MMI Ontology Registry and Repository http://mmisw.org/orr/ MOBB: Monterey Ocean Bottom Broadband project Modbus: a serial communications protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbus MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites. MOOS: Monterey Ocean Observing System http://www.mbari.org/moos MRG: Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a next-generation IT infrastructure incorporating Messaging, Realtime, and Grid functionality. It offers increased performance, reliability, interoperability, and faster computing for enterprise customers. http://www.redhat.com/mrg/&nbsp; MSE: MOOS Science Experiment MTS: Marine Technology Society MUCE: Monterey Upper Canyon Experiment Mule: not an acronym. Open source ESB. http://mule.codehaus.org/display/MULE/Home MV: Medium Voltage (converter); located in node power supply of MARS MVC: Model-View-Controller software pattern - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller NAB: National Association of Broadcasters Nagios: software to monitor all types of computer and network services. http://www.nagios.org/ Navproc: navigation processor NCAR: The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/ NCBO: The National Center for Biomedical Ontology NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (at UIUC) nctoolbox: nctoolbox is a Matlab toolbox that provides read-only access to common data model datasets. (See http://code.google.com/p/nctoolbox/) NDBC: National Data Buoy Center netCDF: file format used for MBARI processed data (stands for Network Common Data Form) http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.html NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ NSF: National Science Foundation NMI: NSF Middleware initiative NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.noaa.gov NODC: National Oceanographic Data Center - http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ NORIA: Network for Ocean Research, Interaction and Application. The OOI CI IO. NTP: Network Time Protocol - a protocol to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. http://www.ntp.org/ NTR: Nothing To Report OA: Obstacle Avoidance OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System OceanSITES: A worldwide system of long-term, deepwater reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters. http://www.oceansites.org/ ODI: Ocean Design Inc.; makers of incredibly expensive underwater connectors ODV: Ocean Data View http://www.oceansites.org/ ODSS: Oceanographic Decision Support System OGC: Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC), a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. http://www.opengeospatial.org/ OGC Oceans IE = Open Geospatial Consortium Oceans Interoperability Experiment. It is being hosted by the OOSTethys effort - http://www.oostethys.org/ogc-oceans-interoperability-experiment OGF: Open Grid Forum, an open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing. http://www.ogf.org/ OMF: Observatory Middleware Framework. A project funded by NSF. NCSA is the prime. MBARI is a subcontractor (at about ½ of the grant). UCSD (Frank Vernon) is a non-paid participant. OMV: Ontology Metadata Vocabulary OMV-MMI: MMI extensions to OMV ONR: Office of Naval Research OOI: Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF) http://www.orionprogram.org/OOI/default.html OOI CI: Ocean Observatories Initiative CyberInfrastructure: http://ci.oceanobservatories.org/ (Developers site: http://ooici.net/) OOR: Open Ontology Repository initiative - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository OOSTethtys: not an acronym. A provider-to-user data systems framework, using interoperable standards, enabling discovery and use of data. http://www.oostethys.org/ OPeNDAP: The Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol, the protocol used to deliver data directly from the web into user's application workspaces http://opendap.org/ ORION: Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks http://www.orionprogram.org PC-104: small microprocessor for embedded systems (can run Linux) http://www.pc104.org PCA: Principal component analysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_components_analysis PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction, procedure to make millions of copies of DNA from a few PDR: preliminary design review ("Hey, I thought of something. Is it a stupid idea?") PDU: Power Distribution Unit (? not sure about this though) pH: a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. pH is a shorthand for its mathematical approximation: in chemistry a small p is used in place of writing log10 and the H here represents H\+, the concentration of hydrogen ions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH pl-navproc: the name of a computer
         Name:    pl-navproc.pl.mbari.org
         Address:  134.89.22.11
we think navproc was the shortened name for navigation processor; we guess, "Point Lobos Navigation Processor". PRDK: PUCK Reference Design Kit http://www.mbari.org/pw PUCK: Pluggable Underwater Connector with Knowledge http://www.mbari.org/pw PUP: Precision Underwater Positioner QNX: A Unix-like real-time operating system RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID RBI: Runs Batted In RC: Radio controlled (airplane) RCO: Regional Cabled Observatory http://orionprogram.org/PDFs/RevisedOOICND08Mar07.pdf RDF: W3C Resource Description Framework ROS: Remote Ocean Systems http://www.rosys.com/; Also Robot Operating System http://www.ros.org/ ROV: Remotely Operated Vehicle RS-232 (Recommended Standard 232) is a standard for serial binary data signals connecting between a DTE (Data terminal equipment) and a DCE (Data Circuit-terminating Equipment). It is commonly used in computer serial ports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232 RSN: Regional Scale Node. See RCO. http://www.ooi.washington.edu/rsn/secondary.jsp?keywords=WHATSR&title=What%20is%20RSN? SAP: Single Axis PUP SCI: Semantic Collaboration Infrastructure. A multi-institutional proposal to NSF under SI2-SSI (Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation, Scientific Software). SCPI: Self Contained Plankton Imager, an MBARI project in 2011 SDCI: Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure. A program at NSF. SeaDataNet: Multi-national, multi-system data management project funded by the European Union, which will provide metadata, data and products as a unique virtual data centre. (http://www.seadatanet.org/) SENSORIS: Sensor Data Integration System. A multi-institutional NSF project under Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) Data Improvement (Office of Cyberinfrastructure) SensorML: not an acronym; markup language to describe sensors and their data. http://vast.uah.edu/SensorML/ SIFT: Scale-invariant feature transform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transform SIIM: Science Instrument Interface Module SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module SIMPA: Seafloor Imaging of Marine Protected Areas. A software tool produced under MBARI projects 900821and 901016. SIO: Scripps Institute of Oceanography SMD: Soil Machine Dynamics Hydrovision http://www.smdhydrovision.com SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing SNMP: (Scripps NCSA MBARI Prototype) a proof of concept project staffed at MBARI as part of SENSORS to integrate instrument network capabilities of SIO and MBARI with a policy management framework provided by NCSA and visualization capabilities provided by Calit2-Viz within an ESB-based integration infrastructure. SOPAC: Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission http://www.sopac.org SOS: Sensor Observation Service, one of the SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) standards SOSC: Smart Ocean Sensors Consortium http://www.rbr-global.com/about-rbr/rbr-news/124-rbr-joins-sosc?lang= SPARQL - Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language SPE: Solid-phase extraction; method from removing DNA or RNA from a 'soup' SPS: Sensor Planning Service, one of the SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) standards SRVI: Schmidt Research Vessel Institute SSDS: Shore-Side Data System http://www.mbari.org/ssds/ http://new-ssds.mbari.org:8080/ssds/ STOQS: Spatial Temporal Oceanographic Query System - product of the 2010 Upper Water Column Data Visualization project SURA: The Southeastern Universities Research Association SURF Center: Sensors for Underwater Research of the Future SVN: Subversion which is a source code repository. SWE: Sensor Web Enablement set of standards (approved by OGC) SWE Common: next-generation core for Sensor Web Enablement standards TAMU: Texas A&M University TDS: THREDDS Data Server, an application server used to aggregated and enhance the metadata of other OPeNDAP data sources http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/ TERCOM: Terrain Contour Matching THREDDS: Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/ TREX: Autonomy group mission planning/scheduling software TRN: Terrain-Relative Navigation. Using sensors that can "read" nearby terrain and comparing that with a known map of the area to determine where you are. TVS: Transient voltage suppressor--special type of diode that protects against over-voltage conditions TWIC: Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC™) http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/twic/index.shtm UART: universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter, a type of "asynchronous receiver/transmitter", a piece of computer hardware that translates data between parallel and serial interfaces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UART UCB: University of California-Berkeley UCSB: University of California, Santa Barbara UCSD: University of California, San Diego UI: User Interface UIUC: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UNOLS: University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System. An organization of 61 academic institutions and National Laboratories involved in oceanographic research and joined for the purpose of coordinating oceanographic ships' schedules and research facilities. UPS: Uninterrupted Power Supply URI: Uniform Resource Identifier - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt URN: Uniform Resource Name - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt UUST: Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology Symposium http://www.ausi.org/uust/uust.html UW: University of Washington VAAP: Video Annotation Analysis and Presentation http://www.mbari.org/rd/projects/2010/information.htm VARS: Video Annotation and Reference System. http://vars.sourceforge.net/ VB: Variable Buoyancy VB: Visual Basic VCS: Vehicle Control System VENUS: Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea. A cabled ocean observatory. http://www.venus.uvic.ca/ VHDL: VHSIC (Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language VINE: Vocabulary INtegration Environment Voc2RDF: Vocabulary to RDF conversion tool W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/ WATERS Network: WATer and Environmental Research Systems Network (WATERS Network) WCS: Web Coverage Service WFS: Web Feature Service WHOI: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute WMO: World Meteorology Organization, http://www.wmo.ch WMS: Web Map Service WNS: Wet node simulator (MARS observatory simulation environment) XML: Extensible Markup Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML XSD - XML Schema Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Schema

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