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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

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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.

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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 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.

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EOD
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
ERW
Explosive Remnants of War

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GICHD
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
GIS
Geographic Information System
GMAP
Gender and Mine Action Programme
GPS
Global positioning system

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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

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MBT
Mine Ban Treaty
MINT
Mine action INTelligence tool
MIQ
Mine action Information management Qualification

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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.

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QA
Quality Assurance
QC
Quality Control
QM
Quality Management

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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.
SHA
Suspected Hazardous Area
SOP
Standard Operating Procedures

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TS
Technical Survey

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UN
United Nations
UAV
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
UXO
Unexploded Ordnance

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