| Subject | English | German |
| environ. | geographic information system An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information that can be drawn from different sources, both statistical and mapped | Geographisches Informationssystem |
| IT, geogr. | Geographic Information System | geographisches Informationssystem |
| IT, earth.sc. | geographic information system | Geoinformationssystem |
| IT, nat.sc., environ. | geographic information system | geographisches Informationssystem |
| environ. | geographic information system | Geographisches Informationssystem |
| IT, earth.sc. | geographic information system of the Commission | geografisches Informationssystem der Kommission |
| forestr. | GIS geographic information system | GIS geogr. Informationssystem |