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Standards

ISO — aka International Organization for Standardization
- ISO 19111 — Spatial Referencing by Coordinates
- ISO 19115 — Feature Metadata
- ISO 19119 — Service Metadata
OGC — aka Open GIS Consortium
- CAT — Catalog Interface
- CTS — Coordinate Transform Service
- GCE — Grid Coverage Exchange
- Intergrated Client Report
- OWS
- Web Map Server — [GEOTOOLS:Web Map Server]
  - SLD — Style Layer Descriptor
  - WCS — Web Coverage Service
  - WMS 1.0 — dated 2000-04-19
  - WMS 1.1 — dated 2001-06-21
  - WMS 1.1.1 — dated 2001-12-07
  - WMS 1.3.0 — dated 2004-02-18
  - WMS Context Document
  - WMS Post — dated 2002-08-24
- WFS — Web Feature Server
- WRS

Abbreviation

[CCRS]	Compound coordinate reference system
CRS	Coordinate reference system
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
OGC	Open GIS Consortium
[SI]	Le Système International d'Unités
UML	Unified Modeling Language
XML	eXtensible Markup Language
1D	One Dimensional
2D	Two Dimensional
3D	Three Dimensional

Package Abbreviations

The following are package abbreviations from on OGC UML model:

CC	Change Coordinates
CD	Coordinate datum
CI	Citation
CS	Coordinate System
DQ	Data quality
RS	Reference System
SC	Spatial referencing by Coordinates

Symbol

a	semi-major axis
b	semi-minor axis
E	[Easting]
f	flattening
h	ellipsoidal height
H	gravity-related height
N	[Northing]
λ	geodetic longitude
φ	geodetic latitude
X, Y, Z	Cartesian coordinates in a geocentric coordinate reference system
i, j, k	Cartesian coordinates in an engineering coordinate reference system, (integer or real)

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Definition

For more information see the OGC Glossary

Cartesian Coordinate System
Catalog Interface
Compound oordinate Reference System
Concatenated Transformation
Coordinate
Coordinate Conversion
Coordinate Reference System
- Engineering Coordinate Reference System — i, j, k Cartesian coordinates
- Geocentric Coordinate Reference System — X, Y, Z Cartesian coordinates
- Geographic Coordinate Reference System
Coordinate System — rules for specifying how coordinates are to be assigned to points
- Ellipsoidal Coordinate System
- Geodetic Coordinate System
- Oblique Cartesian Coordinate System
- Spherical Coordinate System
Coordinate Transformation
Coordinated Universal Time
Covariance Matrix
Cylindrical Coordinates
Datum
- Engineering Datum
- Geodetic Datum
- Local Datum
- Vertical datum
Depth
Dimension
Earth Referenced Coordinates
Elevation
Ellipsoid
Ellipsoidal Height
Ellipsoidal Latitude
Ellipsoidal Longitude — Longitude
Flattening
Geodetic Coordinates
Geodetic Height
Geodetic Latitude
Geodetic Longitude — denoted: ?
Geographic Dataset
Geoid
Gravity-Related Height
Greenwich Meridian
Gregorian Calendar
Grid Coverage Exchange
Ground Coordinates
Image — ...
Image Coordinates
Image Geometry Model
Image Mathematical Model
Image Sensor Model
Image Version
Imaging Model
Interface
International Organization for Standardization
Lambert
Latitude
Longitude
Map Projection
Mean Sea Level
Meridian
Open GIS Consortium
Pixel — contraction for "picture element"
Polar coordinates
Position
Prime meridian — Zero meridian
Projected coordinate reference system
Reference Ellipsoid
Semi-major axis — often denoted: a
Semi-minor axis — often denoted: b
Sensor Model
Spheroid
Styled Layer Descriptor
Temporal coordinate
Temporal coordinate reference system — system against which time is measured
Terrestrial Coordinates
Transformation
Unit — Unit of measure
Vertical coordinate system
Web Coverage Service
Web Feature Server
Web Registry Service

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