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APMBC: | Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
ArcGIS: It is a software suite developed by ESRI Inc. IMSMA incorporates the ArcGIS Engine to display the geographical data in the map pane
Auxiliary Data: Additional data that should be defined before data entering. These include organisations, places, ordnance classification, cause classification, needs classification, assistance classification.
AXO: Abandoned Explosive Ordnance

CCM: Convention on Cluster Munitions
CCW: Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Centroid: The geometric center of a feature. For line, polygon, or three-dimensional features, it is the center of mass (or center of gravity) and may fall inside the feature or outside the feature.
CHA: Confirmed Hazardous Area
CDF: Custom Defined Fields are fields that IMSMA allows you to create, change, remove and are not predefined.

Data Category: The Data Inventory Manager allows you to organise item attributes into meaningful groupings, or data categories.
Data Entry Form: Data entry forms are used to collect mine action data such as accidents and victims, land, activities, locations, education activities, and quality management information and display them in a standardised format. They used to be called Field Reports.
Data Entry Form Template: They arepredefined forms that can be used to add a Data Entry Form to IMSMA.
Data Inventory Manager: Using Data Inventory Manager, information managers can create new data elements or modify existing elements to map to their programme’s information needs.

IDP: Internally Displaced Person
IM: Information Management
IMSMA: Information Management System for Mine Action
IMAS: International Mine Action Standards
Items: There are three different type of items in IMSMA. Location, Task and all the others land, activity, accident, victim, assistance, education, QM. They can be viewed in the Items Pane of the IMSMA Navigation window

Navigation Window: The IMSMA Navigation window is the main window from which all of IMSMA’s features are accessed. The window contains a menu toolbar, a status bar, and three panes: the country structure pane, map pane, and items pane.
NMAS: National Mine Action Standards
Novetta Solutions: The company currently contracted for IMSMA software development
NTS: Non-Technical Survey
Notification area: a notification area (also system tray or status area) is the portion of the user interface that displays icons for system and program features that have no presence on the desktop as well as the time and the volume icon. It contains mainly icons that show status information, though some programs, use it for minimized windows. By default, this is located in the bottom-right of the primary monitor (or bottom-left on languages of Windows that use right-to-left reading order), or at the bottom of the taskbar if docked vertically.

a unique identifier of parts of the Country Structure defined by a governmental organization;
a kind of addressing system used mostly by emergency response teams. It provides unique identifiers to thousands of locations and administrative units in a humanitarian operation. The p-codes are represented by combinations of letters and/or numbers to identify a specific location or feature on a map or within a database. These codes provide a systematic means of linking data to an unambiguous location. Any information that is tagged with P-codes can be combined and analyzed with any other p-coded data. The p-codes for a country can be found in the Common Operational Datasets, which are standard geographic references for the humanitarian community provided by UN OCHA.

Subobject: Subobjects are subcategories within certain IMSMA items (land, activity, accident, victim, education, organisation, task). Subobjects are normally displayed in table format.
Summary Window: A Summary Window displays when you open an object from the Items Pane of the IMSMA Navigation window. The Summary Window shows the most important available fields that have been selected to be included from the Data Entry Form.

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