Scope of the EDCSIncludes, but is not limited to:
- Abstract concepts (absolute latitude accuracy, geodetic azimuth),
- Airborne particulates and aerosols (cloud, fog, snow),
- Animals (civilian, fish, human, whale),
- Atmosphere and atmospheric conditions (air temperature, precipitation rate, pressure Altitude, wind speed and direction),
- Bathymetric physiography (continental shelf, guyot, reef, seamount),
- Electromagnetic and acoustic phenomena (acoustic noise, frequency, polarization, surface reflectivity),
- Equipment (aircraft, artificial satellite, tent, train, vessel),
- Extraterrestrial phenomena (comet, planet, spacecraft),
- Hydrology (lake, rapids, river, swamp),
- Ice (ice field, ice peak, ice shelf, glacier),
- Man-made structures and their interiors (bridge, building, hallway, road, room, town),
- Ocean and littoral surface phenomena (current, surf, tide, wave),
- Ocean floor (coral, rock, sand),
- Oceanographic conditions (luminescence, salinity, specific gravity, water current speed),
- Physiography (cliff, gorge, mountain, valley region),
- Space (charged particle species, ionospheric scintillation, magnetic field, particle density),
- Surface materials (concrete, metal, paint, soil), and
- Vegetation (crop land, forest, grass land, kelp bed, tree).