GIS Acronyms & Dictionary

GIS makes frequent use of a range of terms and acronyms.

There are a number of online resources and GIS dictionaries which define these terms.

A few of these online resources are:

• As part of the Knowledge Base on the ESRI Support Site, ESRI offers a comprehensive GIS Dictionary.


• The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) has a Free Edition of their AGI GIS Dictionary.


• UC Berkeley Library has a Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms for GIS, Catrography and Remote Sensing.