Glossary
Term![]() |
Description |
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GA |
Geoscience Australia |
GBRMPA |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
GCMD |
Global Change Master Directory |
GeoConnections |
the Canadian spatial data infrastructure (formerly 'Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure') |
GeoExt |
a software framework for developing geospatial web applications, building on ExtJS and OpenLayers |
Geofabric |
see Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric |
GeoNetwork |
an open-source software database for dataset metadata; implements the ISO 19115 metadata standard and CSW interface standard |
GeoSciML |
Geoscience Markup Language, a standards-based information model for encoding information about geology, with an emphasis on mapped geological features (geologic units and structures, boreholes, earth material, etc.) |
Geoserver |
an open-source software feature store; implements the WFS and WMS interface standards |
GEOSS |
Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
Git |
a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds in 2005, and has since become the most widely adopted version control system for software development |
granularity |
the degree of composition of a larger dataset or dataset series into smaller datasets each associated with individual dataset metadata descriptions |
gridded data |
data discretised over a raster grid (e.g., remote-sensed imagery or numerical simulation output) |