ACRONYMS

Table 1: Acronyms of Organizations, Manufacturers, Products

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION	URL-email
CNR	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche	www.cnr.it
IGM	Istituto per la Geologia Marina CNR	www.igm.bo.cnr.it
LDEO	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	www.ldeo.columbia.edu
TUBITAK	Turkish Sc. Tech. Research Council
IFREMER	Inst. Francais Eploitation Mer	www.ifremer.fr
UNESCO	United Nations Scient. and cultural org.	www.unesco.org
IOC	Intergov.Oceanogr.Comm. of UNESCO	www.ioc.org
IHO	Int. Hydrographic Organization	www.iho.org
SACLANT	SACLANT Undersea Research Centre	www.saclantc.nato.int
IFA	Istituto Fisica Atmosfera CNR	www.ifa.rm.cnr.it
OGS	Osservatorio Geofisico Sperimentale	www.ogs.it
GAS	Geological Application and Services	gas@asianet.it
SEG	Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists	www.seg.org
GNU,GPL	GNU is not Unix,General Pub. License	www.gnu.org
GEBCO	General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean	www.nbi.ac.uk/bodc/gebco.html
IBCM	Int.Bathym.Chart of the Mediterranean	www.nbi.ac.uk/bodc/gebco.html
MEDATLAS	Mediterranean Atlas	www.ifremer.fr/sismer
WODB98	World Ocean Database 1998 edition
NEPTUNE,MERLIN	Kongsberg-Simrad	www.kongsberg-simrad.com/Products
CARAIBES	Traiment Cartographique Batimetrie	www.ifremer.fr/dnis_esi
GMT	Generic Mapping Tool	gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt
MySQL	Data Base Management System	www.mysql.org
GLOBE	Global 1km Land Project	www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo
PostScript,PDF		www.adobe.com
GPS-DGPS	Global Positioning System
HPR	Hydroacoustical Positioning
DP	Dynamic Positioning
DTM	Digital Terrain Model
JOG	Joint Operation Group
SSS	Side Scan Sonar
SBP	Sub Bottom Profiling
NAF	Northern Anatolian Fault