Glossary

A

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

C

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.

D

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.

E

EOD

Explosive Ordnance Disposal

ERW

Explosive Remnants of War

G

GICHD

Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining

GIS

Geographic Information System

GMAP

Gender and Mine Action Programme

GPS

Global positioning system

I

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

M

MBT

Mine Ban Treaty

MINT

Mine action INTelligence tool

MIQ

Mine action Information management Qualification

N

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.

Q

QA

Quality Assurance

QC

Quality Control

QM

Quality Management

S

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

T

TS

Technical Survey

U

UN

United Nations

UAV

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

UXO

Unexploded Ordnance