- Branche: Earth science
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Founded in 1941, the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) is an international association representing the interests of professionals in surveying, mapping and communicating spatial data relating to the Earth's surface. Today, ACSM's members include more than 7,000 surveyors, ...
A conical, equidistant map projection with two standard parallels such that the absolute scale errors along the lines representing the central and extreme parallels of latitude are exact.
Industry:Earth science
Evidence deemed by law to be sufficient to establish a fact if the evidence is not disputed.
Industry:Earth science
(1) The act or process of evicting, or state of being evicted. (2) In particular, the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law or dispossession in virtue of a permanent title. (3) Also, dispossession of a tenant by his landlord.
Industry:Earth science
That image of the field stop formed in object space by all elements (of an optical system) on the image space side of the field stop.
Industry:Earth science
That image of the aperture stop formed in image space by all those elements of the optical system on the image space side of the aperture stop. The ratio of the diameter of the entrance pupil to the diameter of the exit pupil is equal to the magnifying power of the optical system.
Industry:Earth science
That portion of the Earth, extending from about 1600 to 3000 km above the surface, in which many particles move at speeds comparable to that needed for escape from the Earth's gravitation.
Industry:Earth science
That set of surfaces obtained, in a three dimensional coordinate system, by assigning all possible values to the parameters a, b, c,... In the equation f(q,r,s; a,b,c,...), in which q,r,s are the coordinates of points in that system.
Industry:Earth science
The amount by which the actual location of a cartographic feature fails to agree with the feature's true position.
Industry:Earth science
(1) A deed delivered to a disinterested person to be delivered to the grantee upon the fulfillment or performance of some act or condition. (2) Money or something of value deposited with a disinterested person, to be released upon fulfillment of performance of some act or condition, or to be returned to the depositor if these conditions are not met.
Industry:Earth science
Distance-measuring equipment having an infrared distance-measuring instrument as one component. The term appears to be used synonymous with electro-infrared distance measuring equipment.
Industry:Earth science
