Software Infrastructure : MBARI Acronym Page
This page last changed on Jan 14, 2015 by carueda.
  1. AAAI: Association for the advancement of artificial intelligence
  2. 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/
  3. 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
  4. AEITS: Autonomous Eye-in-the Sea - stand-alone deepwater video observatory for unobtrusive monitoring (not connected to a cable - gathers data autonomously)
  5. AGU: American Geophysical Union
  6. AIV: Analytical Instrument Valve (a valve on the MFB)
  7. Alfresco: not an acronym. Open source content management system. http://www.alfresco.com http://alfresco.mbari.org
  8. 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
  9. AMC: Autonomous Mission Controller
  10. AMQP: Advanced Message Queuing Protocol - http://www.amqp.org
  11. AOA: Angle of Attack
  12. APL: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
  13. 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
  14. ASLO: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
  15. ASTEP: Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets
  16. ATS: Autonomous Tissue Sampler
  17. AVED: Automated Visual Event Detection http://www.mbari.org/aved/
  18. AWW: All was well. http://www.jkrowling.com/en/
  19. Beowulf cluster: scalable performance collection of independent computers based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure.
  20. BIAUV:  Benthic Imaging Autonomous underwater vehicle
  21. BIOSA: Biophysical Oceanographic Sensor Array
  22. Bogey: not an acronym. A score of one over par on any individual hole.
  23. BOM: Bill of Materials
  24. BRS/MRS: Benthic Respirometer System / Midwater Respriometer System http://www.mbari.org/expeditions/Pulse53/gear.htm
  25. 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
  26. Calit2: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (at UCSD)
  27. Caltech: California Institute of Technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech
  28. CDR: Critical Design Review ("Hey I'm starting to build something, should I stop?")
  29. CI: Cyberinfrastructure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberinfrastructure
  30. CeNCOOS: Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System http://www.cencoos.org/
  31. CENIC: The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California  http://www.cenic.org/
  32. CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics
  33. CGSN: Coastal & Global Scale Nodes - http://www.whoi.edu/ooi_cgsn/home
  34. CMORE: Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (a funding source)
  35. 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
  36. COI: Common operating infrastructure (one of seven projects that together implement the Network for Ocean Research, Interaction and Application (NORIA) OOI CI.
  37. 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.
  38. 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/
  39. CREON: Coral Reef Environmental Observatory Network  http://www.coralreefeon.org/
  40. 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
  41. CTD: Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth http://www.whoi.edu/instruments/viewInstrument.do?id=1003
  42. CUAHSI: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. - http://www.cuahsi.org/
  43. CVS: Concurrent Versions System; maintains control of history of code/documents
  44. DataNet solicitation: NSF 07-601, Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet).
  45. DC: Dublin Core vocabulary
  46. DEM: Digital Elevation Model
  47. D-ESP:  Deep ESP; the sphere and all it's accouterments
  48. DI: De-ionized, often used with water
  49. DMO: Division of Marine Operations
  50. 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)
  51. Doc Ricketts: ROV, replacing Tiburon, carried by R/V Western Flyer.
  52. DOEST: Day of Engineering, Science and Technology
  53. Dribbling: not an acronym. The act of bouncing the ball continuously
  54. DSL:  Digital Subscriber Line;  used to describe a type of modem
  55. DStoNetCDF: SSDS post-processing service
  56. DVL: Doppler Velocity Log
  57. DWSM:  Deep Water Sampling Module
  58. 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/
  59. EE: Electrical Engineering
  60. eGY: the Electronic Geophysical Year http://www.egy.org/
  61. EITS: Eye-in-the Sea - deepwater video observatory for unobtrusive monitoring. http://www.mbari.org/mars/general/eits.html
  62. EOM: Electro-Optical-Mechanical
  63. EPA: Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov/
  64. EPIC: Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing
  65. ERA: Earned Run Average
  66. ESB: Enterprise Service Bus
  67. ESIP Federation: Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
  68. ESONET: European Seafloor Observatory Network http://www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk/research/esonet.php
  69. ESP: Environmental Sample Processor - Chris Scholin et al. http://www.mbari.org/muse/platforms/ESP.htm
    1. Darlene was the 1st generation ESP
    2. GiGi The first 'second generation' ESP instrument
    3. NEO 'Nasa-Earth-Observatory'; The second 'second generation' ESP instrument
    4. Mack The third 'second generation' ESP instrument
    5. Bruce Another 'second generation' ESP instrument
    6. MOE A second gen. instrument with the MFB connected
    7. Betty  -another one
    8. Gordon  -another one (Betty & Gordon named after the founders of the Moore Foundation, who funded the builds)
  70. ESSIN: Earth Sciences Semantic Interoperability Network. A multi-institutional proposal to NSF under the Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) Crosscutting program.
  71. Et al.: and others
  72. FC5: Fedora Core 5
  73. FDR: Final Design Review
  74. Ferret: plotting/analysis software package
  75. FOCE: Free Ocean CO2 Enrichment
  76. FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array
  77. FSM: Finite State Machine
  78. FVGR: Free Vehicle Grab Respirometer
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. GEOSS: Global Earth Observation System of Systems http://www.epa.gov/geoss/
  82. 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
  83. GRIIDC: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/about
  84. GUI: Graphical User Interface
  85. GWT: Google Web Toolkit - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
  86. HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
  87. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: not an acronym. Fear of the number six-hundred sixty-six.
  88. HOBI: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
  89. HOTS: Hawaii Ocean Time-Series program
  90. HPP:  High-Pressure pump
  91. ICAN: The International Coastal Atlas Network - http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/home
  92. ICD: Interface Control Diagram; block diagram of all system components and their interfaces
  93. ICPR: International Conference on Pattern Recognition. This is the annual conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
  94. IDE: Integrated Development Environment
  95. 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.
  96. IMDIS: International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems sponsored by http://www.seadatanet.org/
  97. 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.
  98. IO: Implementing Organization http://www.orionprogram.org/PDFs/OOI_CG_RFP_16Mar07.pdf
  99. IOC: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/index.php
  100. IODE: International Oceanographic Data Exchange, http://www.iode.org
  101. IODP: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program http://www.iodp.org
  102. IOOS: Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System http://www.ocean.us
  103. ISUS:  In Situ Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer
  104. IWCE: International Wireless Communication Expo (http://www.iwceexpo.com)
  105. JCOMM: Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/index.php
  106. JEE: Java Enterprise Edition (formerly known as J2EE)
  107. JIRA: A bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
  108. JOI: Joint Oceanographic Institutions http://www.joiscience.org/joi
  109. JVM: Java Virtual Machine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jvm
  110. KML: Keyhole Markup Language - A file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth
  111. LCM: Lightweight Communications and Marshalling https://lcm-proj.github.io/
  112. LED: Light-emitting diode
  113. LDEO: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
  114. LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
  115. LRAUV: Long Range AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle)
  116. LST: Langrangian sediment trap
  117. MATE: Marine Advanced Technology Education Center at Monterey Peninsula College (MPC)
  118. MARS: Monterey Accelerated Research System - Monterey Cabled Observatory System
  119. Maven: software project management and comprehension tool. http://maven.apache.org/
  120. MBA: Monterey Bay Aquarium
  121. MB/CA Current: a MBARI project in 2011
  122. MEITS: Moored Eye-in-the Sea - deepwater video observatory for unobtrusive monitoring to be deployed on MARS
  123. 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 )
  124. MFB: Micro-Fluidics Block--added instrumentation to the ESP
  125. MMI: Marine Metadata Initiative http://marinemetadata.org/
  126. MMI ORR: MMI Ontology Registry and Repository http://mmisw.org/orr/
  127. MOBB: Monterey Ocean Bottom Broadband project
  128. Modbus: a serial communications protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbus
  129. MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is a key instrument aboard the Terra (EOS AM) and Aqua (EOS PM) satellites.
  130. MOOS: Monterey Ocean Observing System http://www.mbari.org/moos
  131. 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/ 
  132. MSE: MOOS Science Experiment
  133. MTS: Marine Technology Society
  134. MUCE: Monterey Upper Canyon Experiment
  135. Mule: not an acronym. Open source ESB. http://mule.codehaus.org/display/MULE/Home
  136. MV: Medium Voltage (converter); located in node power supply of MARS
  137. MVC: Model-View-Controller software pattern - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller
  138. NAB: National Association of Broadcasters
  139. Nagios: software to monitor all types of computer and network services. http://www.nagios.org/
  140. Navproc: navigation processor
  141. NCAR: The National Center for Atmospheric Research http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/
  142. NCBO: The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
  143. NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (at UIUC)
  144. nctoolbox: nctoolbox is a Matlab toolbox that provides read-only access to common data model datasets. (See http://code.google.com/p/nctoolbox/)
  145. NDBC: National Data Buoy Center
  146. netCDF: file format used for MBARI processed data (stands for Network Common Data Form) http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/conventions.html
  147. NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
  148. NSF: National Science Foundation
  149. NMI: NSF Middleware initiative
  150. NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://www.noaa.gov
  151. NODC: National Oceanographic Data Center - http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
  152. NORIA: Network for Ocean Research, Interaction and Application. The OOI CI IO.
  153. NTP: Network Time Protocol - a protocol to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. http://www.ntp.org/
  154. NTR: Nothing To Report
  155. OA: Obstacle Avoidance
  156. OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
  157. 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/
  158. ODI:  Ocean Design Inc.; makers of incredibly expensive underwater connectors
  159. ODV: Ocean Data View http://www.oceansites.org/
  160. ODSS: Oceanographic Decision Support System
  161. 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/
  162. 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
  163. OGF: Open Grid Forum, an open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing. http://www.ogf.org/
  164. 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.
  165. OMV: Ontology Metadata Vocabulary
  166. OMV-MMI: MMI extensions to OMV
  167. ONR: Office of Naval Research
  168. OOI: Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF) http://www.orionprogram.org/OOI/default.html
  169. OOI CI: Ocean Observatories Initiative CyberInfrastructure: http://ci.oceanobservatories.org/ (Developers site: http://ooici.net/)
  170. OOR: Open Ontology Repository initiative - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository
  171. OOSTethtys: not an acronym. A provider-to-user data systems framework, using interoperable standards, enabling discovery and use of data. http://www.oostethys.org/
  172. 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/
  173. ORION: Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks http://www.orionprogram.org
  174. PC-104: small microprocessor for embedded systems (can run Linux) http://www.pc104.org
  175. PCA: Principal component analysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_components_analysis
  176. PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction, procedure to make millions of copies of DNA from a few
  177. PDR: preliminary design review ("Hey, I thought of something. Is it a stupid idea?")
  178. PDU: Power Distribution Unit (? not sure about this though)
  179. 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
  180. 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".

  181. PRDK: PUCK Reference Design Kit http://www.mbari.org/pw
  182. PUCK: Pluggable Underwater Connector with Knowledge http://www.mbari.org/pw
  183. PUP: Precision Underwater Positioner
  184. QNX: A Unix-like real-time operating system
  185. RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
  186. RBI: Runs Batted In
  187. RC: Radio controlled (airplane)
  188. RCO: Regional Cabled Observatory http://orionprogram.org/PDFs/RevisedOOICND08Mar07.pdf
  189. RDF: W3C Resource Description Framework
  190. ROS: Remote Ocean Systems http://www.rosys.com/; Also Robot Operating System http://www.ros.org/
  191. ROV: Remotely Operated Vehicle
  192. 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
  193. RSN: Regional Scale Node. See RCO. http://www.ooi.washington.edu/rsn/secondary.jsp?keywords=WHATSR&title=What%20is%20RSN?
  194. SAP: Single Axis PUP
  195. SCI: Semantic Collaboration Infrastructure. A multi-institutional proposal to NSF under SI2-SSI (Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation, Scientific Software).
  196. SCPI: Self Contained Plankton Imager, an MBARI project in 2011
  197. SDCI: Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure. A program at NSF.
  198. 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/)
  199. SENSORIS: Sensor Data Integration System. A multi-institutional NSF project under Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) Data Improvement (Office of Cyberinfrastructure)
  200. SensorML: not an acronym; markup language to describe sensors and their data. http://vast.uah.edu/SensorML/
  201. SIFT: Scale-invariant feature transform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transform
  202. SIIM: Science Instrument Interface Module
  203. SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module
  204. SIMPA: Seafloor Imaging of Marine Protected Areas. A software tool produced under MBARI projects 900821and 901016.
  205. SIO: Scripps Institute of Oceanography
  206. SMD: Soil Machine Dynamics Hydrovision http://www.smdhydrovision.com
  207. SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing
  208. 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.
  209. SOPAC: Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission http://www.sopac.org
  210. SOS: Sensor Observation Service, one of the SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) standards
  211. SOSC: Smart Ocean Sensors Consortium http://www.rbr-global.com/about-rbr/rbr-news/124-rbr-joins-sosc?lang=
  212. SPARQL - Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language
  213. SPE:  Solid-phase extraction; method from removing DNA or RNA from a 'soup'
  214. SPS: Sensor Planning Service, one of the SWE (Sensor Web Enablement) standards
  215. SRVI: Schmidt Research Vessel Institute
  216. SSDS: Shore-Side Data System http://www.mbari.org/ssds/ http://new-ssds.mbari.org:8080/ssds/
  217. STOQS: Spatial Temporal Oceanographic Query System - product of the 2010 Upper Water Column Data Visualization project
  218. SURA: The Southeastern Universities Research Association
  219. SURF Center:  Sensors for Underwater Research of the Future
  220. SVN: Subversion which is a source code repository.
  221. SWE: Sensor Web Enablement set of standards (approved by OGC)
  222. SWE Common: next-generation core for Sensor Web Enablement standards
  223. TAMU: Texas A&M University
  224. 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/
  225. TERCOM: Terrain Contour Matching
  226. THREDDS: Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/
  227. TREX: Autonomy group mission planning/scheduling software
  228. 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.
  229. TVS:  Transient voltage suppressor--special type of diode that protects against over-voltage conditions
  230. TWIC: Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC™) http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/twic/index.shtm
  231. 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
  232. UCB: University of California-Berkeley
  233. UCSB: University of California, Santa Barbara
  234. UCSD: University of California, San Diego
  235. UI: User Interface
  236. UIUC: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  237. 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.
  238. UPS: Uninterrupted Power Supply
  239. URI: Uniform Resource Identifier - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
  240. URN: Uniform Resource Name - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt
  241. UUST: Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology Symposium http://www.ausi.org/uust/uust.html
  242. UW: University of Washington
  243. VAAP: Video Annotation Analysis and Presentation http://www.mbari.org/rd/projects/2010/information.htm
  244. VARS: Video Annotation and Reference System. http://vars.sourceforge.net/
  245. VB: Variable Buoyancy
  246. VB: Visual Basic
  247. VCS: Vehicle Control System
  248. VENUS: Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea. A cabled ocean observatory. http://www.venus.uvic.ca/
  249. VHDL: VHSIC (Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language
  250. VINE: Vocabulary INtegration Environment
  251. Voc2RDF: Vocabulary to RDF conversion tool
  252. W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/
  253. WATERS Network: WATer and Environmental Research Systems Network (WATERS Network)
  254. WCS: Web Coverage Service
  255. WFS: Web Feature Service
  256. WHOI: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
  257. WMO: World Meteorology Organization, http://www.wmo.ch
  258. WMS: Web Map Service
  259. WNS: Wet node simulator (MARS observatory simulation environment)
  260. XML: Extensible Markup Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
  261. XSD - XML Schema Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Schema
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