ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri

Started as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 specializing in land-use.  Main product in ArcGIS.  The hold a user's conference in San Diego.  Estimated over 14,500 users world wide.

GIS (Geographic Information System)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

A set of tools that captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to locations.

CHUM (Chart Updating Manual)

https://www1.nga.mil/ProductsServices/Aeronautical/echum/Pages/default.aspx

UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

It would be said "Universal Time, Coordinated" unofficially.

National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITF_%28National_Imagery_Transmission_Format%29

..."a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Intelligence Community (IC) suite of standards for the exchange, storage, and transmission of digital-imagery products and image-related products."

WVC (World Vector Shoreline)

http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_WVS_DMA_NIMA.html


The World Vector Shoreline (WVS) is a digital data file containing the shourelines, internations boundaries and country names of the world.  It is a standard US Defense Mapping Agency (DMA).

AGI - Analytical Graphics, Inc.

This is use in FalconView.

The site is here:  http://www.agi.com/

They have a 'free' conference:  http://uc.agi.com/

They will be in Georgia on June 23, 2010:  http://uc.agi.com/locations/

KML - Keyhole Markup Language

A file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. 

This is used in FalconView.  

KML Home Page

This is an open standard maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Allows pinpointing of locations, adding of image overlays, and exposing rich data.

DNC - Digital Nautical Chart

http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView/wiki/GettingDigitalNauticalChart

GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

http://www.gdal.org/