| AAP | After Action Playback |
| AOI | Area of Interest |
| API | Application Program Interface - a published set of protocols and tools that a company publishes that allow developers to connect to or use their software. |
| AVL | Automated Vehicle Location |
| BOLO | Be On The Look Out |
| CAD | Computer Aided Dispatch |
| EMS |
Emergency Medical Service
Emergency Management System |
| EOC | Emergency Operations Center |
| ERG | Emergency Response Guidebook |
| GE | Geocortex Essentials |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GVH | Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 |
| IPv4 / IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 4 or version 6 formats. IPv4 is written 01 . 102 . 103 . 104. IPv6 is written 684D:1131:222:3633:4544:5545:6:77. |
| IRAI | Incident Response Application Interface |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation - a data exchange format |
| HTML5 | Hypertext Markup Language Version 5 |
| OCGS | Office of Chief Government Statistician Organized Crime and Gang Section (Dept of Justice) |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| REST | Representational State Transfer - a way to structure distributed hypermedia systems |
| UCIDS | Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| UX | User Interface |
