Glossary

[very early draft, unofficial, work in progress]

A

ArcGIS

• Software by Esri

C

CGC = La Commission géologique du Canada

• = GSC (Geological Survey of Canada)

D

DAUID

• census dissemination area

DDR = Disaster Risk Reduction

• Canada's Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction / Plate-forme du Canada pour la réduction des risques de catastrophe

DSRA = Deterministic Seismic Risk Assessment

• = earthquake-scenarios
• Source: Seismic Risk Management (PDF) FIXME
• See also: PSRA

E

Elastic Cloud

Elasticsearch

Esri (ESRI) = Environmental Systems Research Institute

• ArcGIS Desktop
• zh: 美国环境系统研究所公司 / 美國環境系統研究所公司

G

GDAL = Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

GEM = Global Earthquake Model

• GEM is a not-for-profit foundation that drives a global collaborative effort to assess earthquake risk around the globe
• Global Earthquake Model Foundation | Italy
• See also: OpenQuake

GEOSCAN Database / Base de données GEOSCAN

• https://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/ GEOSCAN
• GEOSCAN is the bibliographic database for scientific publications of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
  • The database features over 85,000 records primarily of the Earth Sciences (Geological Survey of Canada publications, National Atlas maps, Topographic maps, Remote sensing publications), and is continually growing with records on Mining, Materials and Energy. GEOSCAN also contains records on external publications authored by NRCan scientists and specialists.

GIS = Geographic Information System

• fr: Système d'information géographique
• zh: 地理信息系统 / 地理資訊系統

Git LFS = Git Large File Storage

• Example: https://github.com/OpenDRR/boundaries/blob/master/opendrr-boundaries.sql

GSC = Geological Survey of Canada

gunicorn:

• https://gunicorn.org/ - Gunicorn - Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
• See also: pygeoapi, WSGI

H

HAZUS® = Hazards U.S.

• a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool developed and freely distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). ... Although it was developed with the US continent in focus, the Hazus toolset has been adopted by emergency management organizations worldwide such as Singapore, Canada, Australia, and Pakistan.
• See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAZUS

HabitatSeven®

• https://climatedata.ca/ - Climate Data Canada
  • HabitatSeven | Work | ClimateData.ca
• https://changingclimate.ca/ - Canada in a Changing Climate

Hyogo Framework for Action

• zh: 兵库行动框架 / 兵庫行動綱領

NHSL = National Human Settlement Layer

O

OGC = Open Geospatial Consortium

• https://www.ogc.org/ - The Home of Location Technology Innovation and Collaboration | OGC
• "OGC's member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available, open geospatial standards."
• See also: pygeoapi

OGR:

• OGR used to stand for OpenGIS Simple Features Reference Implementation. However, since OGR is not fully compliant with the OpenGIS Simple Feature specification and is not approved as a reference implementation of the spec the name was changed to OGR Simple Features Library. (from https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatdoesOGRstandfor)

ogr2ogr:

• ogr2ogr — GDAL documentation
• (Debian binary package: gdal-bin)
• See https://github.com/OpenDRR/opendrr-data-store

OpenAPI:

• The OpenAPI Specification, originally known as the Swagger Specification, is a specification for machine-readable interface files for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. ** See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAPI_Specification ** See https://web.archive.org/web/20160506235108/http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2015/11/06/linux-foundation-wants-to-extend-swagger-in-connected-buildings/ ** See Swagger
• Why is it relevant to us? It is used by Pygeoapi. From https://docs.pygeoapi.io/en/latest/openapi.html: ** The OpenAPI specification is an open specification for RESTful endpoints. OGC API specifications leverage OpenAPI to describe the API in great detail with developer focus.

OpenQuake:

• The OpenQuake Engine is an open source application that allows users to compute seismic hazard and seismic risk of earthquakes on a global scale. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, on laptops, workstations, standalone servers and multi-node clusters.
• from https://github.com/gem/oq-engine - gem/oq-engine: OpenQuake's Engine for Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis
• https://www.globalquakemodel.org/oq-get-started - Get Started | Global Earthquake Model Foundation | Italy

P

PostGIS:

• PostGIS — Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL
• Why should you care about PostGIS? — A gentle introduction to spatial databases | by Topi Tjukanov | Medium
• gis - What is ST in PostGIS? - Stack Overflow
  • The ST prefix stood originally for Spatial and Temporal. ... Today, one might want to interpret it as Spatial Type. (from http://doesen0.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/proceedings/paper/68.pdf)

SELECT superhero.name
FROM city, superhero
WHERE ST_Contains(city.geom, superhero.geom)
AND city.name = 'Gotham';

PSRA = Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment

• = seismic-risk

  One of the risk assessment approaches that is often used is name Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment (PSRA). This approach is widely used to assess risk of structural damage due to naturally occurring earthquake. The PSRA approach not only assesses the probability of the seismic event, but also assesses the societal impact. (from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/probabilistic-seismic-risk-assessment-psra-induced-wayne-park-eit/) FIXME

pygeoapi: a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards.

• https://pygeoapi.io/ Home - pygeoapi

Q

QGIS:

• from Wikipedia: QGIS (until 2013 known as Quantum GIS) is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.
• https://www.qgis.org/ - Welcome to the QGIS project!, a Free and Open Source Geographic Information System

RDM

S

SAUID

• = State Assigned Unique ID (from https://hub.arcgis.com/ ArcGIS Hub)
• = ID number for the spatial assessment unit (from https://www.paikkatietohakemisto.fi/geonetwork/home/search?format=ESRI%20Shapefile)
• Settled Area Unit ID
• "settled areas"
• "spatial units"

SchemaSpy

• SchemaSpy • Database Documentation Built Easy.
• See https://github.com/OpenDRR/opendrr-data-store

Sendai

• the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
• 日本宮城縣仙台市

Sendai Framework: 仙台框架 / 仙台綱領

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030 (en, PDF)
• Cadre d'action de Sendai pour la réduction des risques de catastrophe 2015 - 2030 (fr, PDF)
• 2015-2030年 仙台减少灾害风险框架 (zh-Hans, PDF)
• 2015-2030 仙台減災綱領 (zh-Hant, PDF)

SQL/MM Spatial

Swagger:

• See OpenAPI

T

Tableau

• https://www.tableau.com/ - Business Intelligence and Analytics Software

U

UbuntuGIS

• From UbuntuGIS - Ubuntu Wiki : UbuntuGIS is a repository (PPA) that can be added in your sources.list which will provide up to date packages.
• PPA at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable
• UbuntuGIS PPA has currently surpassed DebianGIS in packages. For example pygeoapi is now packaged for UbuntuGIS but not yet in Debian, and thus pygeoapi's Docker image has switched to using UbuntuGIS
• See also: DebianGIS

UNDRR (formerly UNISDR)

• United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
• 聯合國減少災害風險辦公室

UNISDR

• United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
• 联合国国际减灾战略 / 聯合國國際減災策略署

USGS

• United States Geological Survey (GitHub: https://github.com/usgs)

W

WSGI = Web Server Gateway Interface

• Web Server Gateway Interface - Wikipedia
• Python specific