ACRONYMS

Table 1: Acronyms of Organizations, Manufacturers and Products

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION	URL-email
CNR	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche	www.cnr.it
ISMAR	Istituto di Scienze Marine	www.bo.ismar.cnr.it
DISGAM	Dip. Sc. Geologiche. Amb. Marine, Univ. Trieste	www.univ.trieste.it/ dipsgaem/
ITU	Istanbul  Technical University	www.itu.edu.tr
EMCOL	Eastern Mediterranean Center for Oceanography and Limnology	www.mines.itu.edu.tr/emcol/
IBB	Istanbul  Buyuksehir Belediyesi	www.ibb.gov.tr
MTA	Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Mudurlugu	www.mta.gov.tr
SHODB	Seyir, Hidrografi ve Osinografi Dairesi Baskanligi	www.shodb.gov.tr
LDEO	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	www.ldeo.columbia.edu
SEG	Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists	www.seg.org
XTF	Extended Triton Format	www.tritonelics.com
UNESCO	United Nations Scient. and cultural org.	www.unesco.org
IOC	Intergov. Oceanogr. Comm. of UNESCO	ioc.unesco.org
IHO	Int. Hydrographic Organization	www.iho.org
GPS-DGPS-RTK	Global Positioning System	samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov
DTM	Digital Terrain Model	en.wikipedia.org
GEBCO	General Bathym.Chart Oceans	www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco
SRTM	Shuttle Radar Topogr.Mission	www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
MBES	MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER SYSTEM
SBP	Sub Bottom Profiling
MCS	Multichannel Seismic
PSU	Practical Salinity Scale	ioc.unesco.org
TS	Temperature-Salinity Diagram
XBT	Expendable BathyTermograph	www.sippican.com
UTM	Universal Transverse Mercator
UTC	Universal Time Coordinated
WGS84	World Geodetic System 1984
NMEA	National Marine Electronics Association	www.nmea.org
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	en.wikipedia.org
NAT	Network Address Translation	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT
SO.PRO.MAR.	Societa' Promozione lavori Marittimi	Fiumicino (Italy)
SBE	Sea Bird Electronics	www.seabird.com/
RESON	Reson	www.reson.it
COMM-TECH	Communication Technology	www.comm-tec.com
NEPTUNE	Simrad MBES Software	www.kongsberg-simrad.com
CARAIBES	Traiment Cartographique Batimetrie	www.ifremer.fr/dnis_esi
MB-SYSTEM	MB-SYSTEM	www.ldgo.columbia.edu/MB-System
GMT	Generic Mapping Tool	gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt
GNU,GPL	GNU is not Unix,General Pub. License	www.gnu.org