Glossary

GEOBENE glosary

A

ALS

Airborne laser scanning

B

BOKU

University of Bodenkultur/Institute of Sustainable Development
http://www.boku.ac.at

C

CBD

Convention on Biological Diversity

CCD

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

COP

Conference of Parties

CSIR

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa
http://www.csir.co.za/

E

EAWAG

Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology
http://www.eawag.ch/

EPIC

Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Model

ESA

European Space Agency
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

F

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
http://www.fao.org

FASOM

Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model

FELIS

Dep. Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems, Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany http://www.felis.uni-freiburg.de

Forestry Program

A research program of IIASA working with global change and forests. see www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/FOR/index.html

G

GEO

Group on Earth Observations

GEO-BENE

Global Earth Observation - Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging
http://www.geo-bene.eu

Geo-Wiki

a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Please visit www.geo-wiki.org

GEOBENE

Global Earth Observation - Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging
http://www.geo-bene.eu

GEOSS

Group on Earth Observation System of Systems

H

HRU

Homogenous response unit

I

IEA

International Energy Agency

IIASA

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria, International Organization http://www.iiasa.ac.at

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/

IVM

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
http://www.ivm.falw.vu.nl/home/index.cfm

J

JRC

Joint Research Center, http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm

K

KTL

National Public Health Institute, Finland
http://www.ktl.fi/portal/english/

L

LIDAR

Light detection and ranging

N

NIES

National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
http://www.nies.go.jp/

O

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

P

PIK

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/

R

REDD

Reducing emissions from deforestation and ecosystem degradation

RES

Reference Energy System

S

SBA

Societal Benefit Area

SSCRI

Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Slovakia
http://www.vupu.sk/

STREP

Specifically Targeted Research Project

U

UBR

Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://www.uniba.sk/

UHH

University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/

UNFCCC

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. See http://unfccc.int/