| CH | Cultural Heritage |
| TH | Technological Heritage; Tech Heritage |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| MRT | Magnetic Resonance Tomography |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
| CT | Computed Tomography |
| CV | Computer Vision |
| SGM | Semi-global Matching |
| tSGM | Tube-based Semi-global Matching |
| SURE | Surface Reconstruction (from imagery) |
| DIM | Dense Image Matching |
| MVS | Multi-view Stereo |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| OA | Open Access |
| OS | Open Source |
| CSG | Constructive Solid Geometry |
| ICP | Iterative Closest Point (algorithm) |
| CP | Control Point |
| 2D | Two-dimensional array of numbers |
| 2.5D | Three-dimensional points meshed by 2D topology (triangles, grids) |
| 3D | Three-dimensional array—3D points meshed by 3D topology |
| SfM | Structure-from-Motion, Bundle Block Adjustment |
| PCL | Open-source library of algorithms for point cloud processing |
| Open3D | Open-source library dealing with 3D data |
| V(O) | Set of 3D voxels—a voxel cloud |
| P(O) | Set of 3D points—a point cloud |
| GSD; OSD | Ground Sampling Distance; Object Sampling Distance |
| P rate gyro | Gyroscope measuring angular rate along input axis |
| I rate gyro | Gyroscope measuring integrated angular rate along input axis |
| LGW | Luftfahrtgerätewerk Hakenfelde (Berlin) |
| FoV | Field-of-View |
| CC | Creative Commons |
| CC BY-SA | License to share OA contents with other users who respect copyright |
| Goobi | Open-source web-based software |
| DT | Digital Twin |
| FBP | Filtered Back Projection |
| MLEM | Maximum-Likelihood Expectation-Maximization |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| ReLU | Rectified Linear Unit (of neural networks) |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| DSLR | Digital Single Lens Reflex (camera) |
| MEMS | Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems |
| LKu4 | Directional Gyro of Type “Siemens LKu4” |
| LN3 | Inertial Platform of Type “Litton LN-3” |
| G200 | Type of the Gyroscopes of the “Litton LN-3” |
| glTF | Graphics Language Transmission Format, standard file format for 3D models |
| obj | Open file format for 3D data storage and handling |
| Draco | Open-source library for compressing/decompressing 3D meshes |
| CIDOC | International Committee for Documentation |
| CIDOC CRM | CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model |