Appendix E

Abbreviations and Acronyms

AWI Alfred Wegener Institute

BODC British Oceanographic Data Centre

CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory

CTD Conductivity-Temperature-Depth

D-GPS Differential Global Positioning System

EB-IBCAO Editorial Board for the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean

EEZ Exclusive Economic zone

GDA GEBCO Digital Atlas

GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans

GEUS Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

GIS Geographical Information System

GMT Generic Mapping Tool

GPS Global Positioning System

GUNiO Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography, Russian Federation Navy

HDCS Hydrographic Data Cleaning System

IASC International Arctic Science Committee

IBCAO International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean

ICEX Ice Exercise

IHO International Hydrographic Organization

IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

KMS Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (Danish Cadastre and Mapping Agency)

NGDC (US) National Geophysical Data Centre

NRL (US) Naval Research Laboratory

ODP Ocean Drilling Program

PMGE Polar Marine Geosurvey Expedition

RAS Russian Academy of Sciences

RDANH Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography

ROV Remotely-Operated Vehicle

SCAMP Seafloor Characterization And Mapping Pod

SCDB Sub-Committee on Digital Bathymetry

SCICEX Science Ice Exercise

USL Universal Systems Limited

USS United States Ship

VNIIO All-Russia Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean