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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronym List." National Research Council. 2003. GIS for Housing and Urban Development. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10674.
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Appendix D List of Acronyms


ArcIMS

Arc Internet Map Server

AHS

American Housing Survey


BLM

Bureau of Land Management


CDBG

Community Development Block Grant

COPC

Community Outreach Partnerships Centers

CORSIM

Cornell Simulation Model


DIME

Dual Independent Map Encoding

DOT

U.S. Department of Transportation

DRAM

Disaggregated Residential Allocation Model

DYNASIM

Dynamic Simulation of Income Model


E-gov

Electronic government

EGIS

Enterprise Geographic Information Systems

E-MAPS

Environmental Maps

EMPAL

Employment Allocation Model

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ESRI

Environmental Systems Research Institute


FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FGDC

Federal Geographic Data Committee

FHA

Federal Housing Assistance


GAO

General Accounting Office

GCDB

Geographic Coordinate Data Base

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronym List." National Research Council. 2003. GIS for Housing and Urban Development. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10674.
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GML

Geographic Markup Language

GSDI

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

GPS

Global Positioning System


HBCU

Historically black colleges and universities

HMDA

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act

HOME

Home Investment Partnerships Program

HOPWA

Housing Opportunities for Persons with Aids

HRA

Housing Relocation Assistant

HUD

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUDS

Harvard Urban Development Simulation


ICT

Information and Communication Technology

ISTEA

Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act

I-Team

Implementation team


LIHTC

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit


MATH

Micro-Analysis of Transfers to Households

MSAs

Metropolitan Statistical Areas


NBER

National Bureau of Economic Research

NKLA

Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles

NRC

National Research Council

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure


PD&R

Office of Policy Development and Research

POMS

Property Owners and Managers Survey


R-MAPS

Research maps


SDI

Spatial Data Infrastructure

SOCDS

State of the Cities Data systems


TAZ

Traffic Analysis Zone

TEA21

Transportation Equity Act

TIGER

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System


UCGIS

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

USDI

Urban Spatial Data Infrastructure

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronym List." National Research Council. 2003. GIS for Housing and Urban Development. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10674.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronym List." National Research Council. 2003. GIS for Housing and Urban Development. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10674.
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The report describes potential applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research for understanding housing needs, addressing broader issues of urban poverty and community development, and improving access to information and services by the many users of HUD’s data. It offers a vision of HUD as an important player in providing urban data to federal initiatives towards a spatial data infrastructure for the nation.

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