| P |
Precision |
| Pa. |
Pennsylvania |
| PA |
Pennsylvania |
| PAA |
Priority abatement
areas |
| PAAD |
Program Acronyms,
Abbreviations and Definitions |
| PAC |
Photo Annotation/Classification;
Publications Advisory Committee (WAML) |
| PACOG |
Pueblo Area Council
of Governments |
| PACON |
Pacific Congress
on Marine Science and Technology |
| PAD |
Position Aware Device |
| PADCO |
Planning and Development
Cooperative International |
| PAGIS |
Planning and Geographic
Information Systems (Hawaii); Pulaski (County, Ark.) Area Geographic Information
System |
| PAIGH |
Pan-American Inst.
of Geography and History |
| PAL |
Prime agricultural
lands |
| PALIS |
Ponds and Lakes Information
System |
| PAM |
Port-A-Meter; Point
access methods |
| PAN |
Polska Akademia Nauk |
| PAPS |
Pooled Analytical
Plotter System |
| PARC |
Palo Alto Research
Center (Calif.) |
| PAS |
Pacific Aerial Surveys |
| PASDA |
Pennsylvania Spatial
Data Access system |
| PASP |
Planning and Analysis
Section |
| PASS |
Precision Aerial
Survey System (3Di) |
| PAT |
Polygon Attribute
Table |
| PAVE |
Package for Analysis
and Visualization of Environmental Data |
| Pbf |
Personenbahnhof =
Passenger railway station |
| PBM |
Portable Bitmap (format) |
| PBO |
Performance-based
organization |
| PBS |
Primary Base Series
(USFS) |
| PC |
Personal Computer;
Principal components |
| PCC |
Professional competency
credit |
| PC-DOS |
Personal Computer-Disc
Operating System |
| PCGN |
Permanent Committee
on Geographical Names for British Official Use |
| PCH |
Professional competency
hour |
| PCLI |
Independent political
entity (republic) |
| P-Code |
Precise code; Protected
code |
| PCS |
POS Computer System |
| .PCX |
PC Paintbrush Export
Format |
| PD |
Precision digitizing;
Publications Div. (USGS) |
| PDA |
Personal digital
assistant; Portable data access |
| P&DC |
Printing & Distribution
Center |
| PDEP |
Pennsylvania Dept.
of Environmental Projection |
| PDF |
Platform Data File;
Portable Document Format |
| PDH |
Professional development
hour |
| PDL |
Page Description
Language; Positioning Data Link (Pacific Crest Corp.) |
| PDQ |
Public Data Queries,
Inc. |
| PDR |
Preliminary Design
Review (U.S. government) |
| PDS |
Photogrammetric Data
Services |
| PDT |
Pacific Daylight
Time; Precision digitizing table |
| PDU |
Professional development
unit |
| PDWS |
Precision digitizing
workstation |
| P.E. |
Photogrammetric Engineer;
Professional Engineer |
| PECG |
Professional Engineers
in California Government |
| PEN |
Peninsula |
| Penn. |
Pennsylvania |
| Pers. |
Personen |
| PE&RS |
Photogrammetric
Engineering & Remote Sensing (journal) |
| PES |
Post enumeration
survey |
| Pf. |
Pfeiler |
| PFAS |
Pennsylvania Facility
Analysis System (PDEP) |
| PFLP |
Point-feature label
placement |
| PGM |
Permanent ground
monument |
| .PGM |
Portable Graymap
(format) |
| PGML |
Precision Graphics
Markup Language |
| PG/S |
Product Generation
Segment |
| P.H. |
Power house |
| PHC |
Probable hydrologic
consequences |
| PHIGS |
Programmer Hierarchical
Interactive Graphics System |
| Phillips |
Phillips, P.L. List
of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress |
| PHODIS |
Photogrammetric Image
Processing System (Carl Zeiss Inc.) |
| PI |
Pseudo intelligence;
Photo interpretation |
| PIC |
Public Information
Center |
| .PIC |
Lotus 1-2-3 Picture
Format |
| PICA |
Project Integrated
Catalogue Automation |
| PICG |
Programme International
de Correlation Geologique |
| PID |
Photoionization detector;
Permanent station identifier |
| PIDL |
Polygon ID left |
| PIDR |
Polygon ID right |
| PIER |
Pacific Island Ecosystems
at Risk |
| PIG |
Panstwowy Instytut
Geologiczny (Poland) |
| PIN |
Parcel identification
number |
| PIO |
Public Inquiries
Office (USGS) |
| PIOS |
Polygon Information
Overlay System (ESRI) |
| Pixel |
Picture element |
| PK |
Peak |
| PKM |
Penyiasatan Kajimbumi
Malaysia; Professional Kansas Mapper |
| PKS |
Peaks |
| PL |
Programming language;
Public law |
| PLAT |
Plateau |
| PLF |
Point Location File |
| PLGR |
Precision lightweight
GPS receiver |
| PLN |
Plain |
| PLOT |
Plotting (software) |
| PLS |
Professional Land
Surveyor |
| PLSC |
Professional Land
Surveyors of Colorado |
| PLSO |
Professional Land
Surveyors of Oregon; Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio |
| PLSS |
Public Land Survey
System (U.S.) |
| PMA |
Production and Marketing
Administration (USDA) |
| PM/S |
Production Management
Segment |
| PMSA |
Primary metropolitan
statistical area |
| PMT |
Positive media transfer;
Photomultiplier tube |
| PND |
Pond |
| PNDI |
Intermittent pond |
| .PNG |
Portable Network
Graphics (format) |
| PNRC |
Pacific Northwest
Regional Commission |
| PNDS |
Ponds |
| PNRS |
Preliminary Natural
Resources Survey |
| PNW |
Pacific Northwest |
| PO |
Photogrammetric Operations;
Post office |
| P&O |
Plans & Operations |
| POAM |
Polar Ozone and Aerosol
Measurement |
| POC |
Point of contact;
Point of control |
| POES |
Polar-Orbiting Satellites
(NOAA) |
| POLYID |
Polygon identification
number |
| POS |
Point-of-scale; Position
orientation systems |
| POS LV 220 |
Position and Orientation
System for Land Vehicles 220 (Applanix) |
| POSIX |
Portable Operating
System Interface for Computer Environments (UNIX) |
| POTS |
Pan-only Triangulation
System |
| PP |
Proof plot; Proof
plotter |
| PPB |
Parts per billion |
| PPC |
Pocket PC |
| PPDB |
Point Positioning
Data Base |
| PPGIS |
Public participation
GIS |
| PPL |
Populated place |
| PPM |
Portable Pixelmap
(format) |
| PPMS |
Photogrammetry Production
Monitoring System |
| PPNL |
Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory |
| PPNM |
Pengarah Pemetaan
Negara, Malaysia |
| PPP |
Point-to-point (protocol
account, for email connections) |
| PPPG |
Pusat Penelitian
dan Pengembangan Geologi |
| PPS |
Precise Positioning
Service; Photographic Processing System |
| PPSS |
Precise Positioning
Service Security Module |
| PPWK |
Panstwowe Przedsiebiorstwo
Wydawnictw Kartograficznych (Poland) |
| PR |
Photo revision; Precipitation
Radar; Pattern recognition; Puerto Rico |
| PRF |
Point response function |
| PRIM |
Primary Map (inventory) |
| PRO |
Public Record Office
(U.K.) |
| PROSIX |
Production System
(USGS) |
| PROSYS |
Production System--UNIX
(USGS) |
| PS |
Plot Services; Point
source; PostScript; Paleontological Society; Polar stereographic (projection) |
| PSA |
Paciulli, Simmons
& Associates Ltd. |
| PSAN |
Professional Surveyors
Assn. of Nebraska |
| PSCOG |
Puget Sound Council
of Governments |
| PSD |
Perceived spatial
dispersions |
| PSI |
Planning Systems,
Inc. |
| PSLS |
Pennsylvania Society
of Land Surveyors |
| PSMA |
Professional Services
Management Assn. |
| PSSC |
Public Service Satellite
Corp. |
| PST |
Pacific Standard
Time |
| PSU |
Primary sampling
unit |
| PT |
Point |
| PTC |
Positive train control |
| Pts. |
Points |
| PUBGRF90 |
TIGER Geographic
Reference File Names, 1990 |
| PUG |
Petroleum Users Group
(ESRI) |
| PUMS |
Public Use Micro-Data
Sample |
| PURL |
Persistent URL software |
| PVT |
Position, Velocity
and Time |