Common abbreviation for Virtual Connection Identifier. Click here to view a diagram.

Address of a virtual circuit. An integer that ranges from 0 to 65,535. The integer identifies a virtual channel that cells may traverse.

the address or label of a VC; a value stored in a field in the ATM cell header that identifies an individual virtual channel to which the cell belongs. VCI values may be different for each data link hop of an ATM virtual connection.

Viet Cong Infrastructure - A term for the Viet Cong covert or 'Shadow' government which was the target of the Phoenix Program.

Viet Cong infrastructure. It was the aim of the Viet Cong to have a complete government in place when their victory was finally won. Thus, where manpower allowed, Communist cadres were secretly assigned positions as village chiefs, police officers, postment, District-level officers, Province-level officers, and National-level officers. The VCI were the "shadow government" of the National Liberation Front and were awaiting the day they could step forward and claim their offices.

Abbreviation for vegetation condition index, an index derived from AVHRR data for drought detection and tracking in many countries of the world. See Kogan (1990).

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